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summercomfort) wrote2026-04-05 05:04 pm
summercomfort) wrote2026-04-05 05:04 pm
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woooooo survived until spring break!!!
The faculty Shakespeare play was fun! There was so good disco music, everyone wore things that were far too shiny, and I was able to make a program Tuesday night that I'm pretty pleased with. One of the things that I've enjoyed about this play and last year's, is that I got to cut up some of my old pants and "upgrade" them to be something wearable again. Last year it was by putting in safety pins, and this year it was by flaring my old jeans with leopard print. It really brought home this sense of "oh, the new fashion is really just taking the tacky stuff in your closet and doing things to it" -- like, cut your parents' old work shirt and sew it to your jeans, etc. But like... we don't do that as much anymore?? It's like ... new fashion is about buying new stuff off the rack. Is it the curse of fast fashion making all of this more accessible? Is it the decline in basic sewing ability? I wish more people felt comfortable just modding their clothes.
One of my big goals this Spring Break is to work on the Citizenship Comic.
- Quest week is week 16 of the year, and by then I should hopefully have 15 pages done.
- What's left to do before Quest week (in 10 days) is to ink 4 more pages, shade all the pages (15), then ideally add historical text, or at least a title page for each section. I think if I spend ~3 hrs per day working on my comics this week, I should be able to get there? Maybe I can do some sort of deal with Miss R re: she gets youtube time while I get drawing time?
- After Quest week, I'll have 10 more weeks until the Supreme Court decision comes down (my self-imposed deadline), and ~11 pages to do (plus the historical notes pages). Which means I need to do 2 pages on a few of those weeks.
- And then I'll be done!!
General tidying/logistics I need to do this week:
- pile next to my bed
- tabletops downstairs
- get haircut for self and Miss R!
- move phone photos to computer
- laundry
- sent out Quest panel slides
Gross things that I need to do this week:
- call the car people again to tell them to register my car insurance (UGH)
- taxes
- call dentist and make appt
- get plane tix for summer
I think what would be helpful is to have at least 1 activity to do with Miss R every day so that the week doesn't turn into a big blob.
The faculty Shakespeare play was fun! There was so good disco music, everyone wore things that were far too shiny, and I was able to make a program Tuesday night that I'm pretty pleased with. One of the things that I've enjoyed about this play and last year's, is that I got to cut up some of my old pants and "upgrade" them to be something wearable again. Last year it was by putting in safety pins, and this year it was by flaring my old jeans with leopard print. It really brought home this sense of "oh, the new fashion is really just taking the tacky stuff in your closet and doing things to it" -- like, cut your parents' old work shirt and sew it to your jeans, etc. But like... we don't do that as much anymore?? It's like ... new fashion is about buying new stuff off the rack. Is it the curse of fast fashion making all of this more accessible? Is it the decline in basic sewing ability? I wish more people felt comfortable just modding their clothes.
One of my big goals this Spring Break is to work on the Citizenship Comic.
- Quest week is week 16 of the year, and by then I should hopefully have 15 pages done.
- What's left to do before Quest week (in 10 days) is to ink 4 more pages, shade all the pages (15), then ideally add historical text, or at least a title page for each section. I think if I spend ~3 hrs per day working on my comics this week, I should be able to get there? Maybe I can do some sort of deal with Miss R re: she gets youtube time while I get drawing time?
- After Quest week, I'll have 10 more weeks until the Supreme Court decision comes down (my self-imposed deadline), and ~11 pages to do (plus the historical notes pages). Which means I need to do 2 pages on a few of those weeks.
- And then I'll be done!!
General tidying/logistics I need to do this week:
- pile next to my bed
- tabletops downstairs
- get haircut for self and Miss R!
- move phone photos to computer
- laundry
- sent out Quest panel slides
Gross things that I need to do this week:
- call the car people again to tell them to register my car insurance (UGH)
- taxes
- call dentist and make appt
- get plane tix for summer
I think what would be helpful is to have at least 1 activity to do with Miss R every day so that the week doesn't turn into a big blob.