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verbminxYes, still awake. I think I am going to go to sleep soon but try to only sleep for 6 hours or so, so that I will be getting up in the early afternoon. Must be up early on Tuesday. My back is still bothering me but not as much; ankle is still cracking unreasonably often.
I got to the reds/pinks/oranges portion of my laundry and was horrified to find, for the first time ever, a big nasty patch of mold or mildew growing on something. The smell was amazingly offensive and I took the time to find out how to kill the evil spores by doing some searching. We don't have lemon juice, we don't have borax, we don't have anywhere I can dry the load in the sun - but AHA! we DO have white vinegar. So it is in there soaking in hot water and laundry detergent and 1/2c. white vinegar and, fingers crossed, that should do it. If not, the treatment is repeated & I have to pick up color-safe bleach.
I totally blame myself for not making it to the laundromat to dry this stuff this week (it was all the things that would hang-dry poorly), but I wasn't feeling well enough for that much labor. Maybe until we get the new dryer I should either hang ALL my clothes and then take some in to be softened-up in the laundromat dryers, or I should take all my laundry in to be done and only personally wash the stuff I can hang to dry. I loved going to the laundromat back in May and when I was doing it alone, but by September it had started to get old, and now it's very complicated because my mom goes & I get stuck there for a long time because she doesn't wash anything ahead of time & has other bizarre laundry-related idiosyncracies. It's hard to describe; mostly it's that I do the same amount of work as I did while she was gone, but it feels like two trips because of things like the car being so densely packed, not being able to choose the parking space, not having the big coin pouch at hand, that sort of thing. It usually involves a little bit more running around, and constant keeping-track-of-mom-because-she-has-the-coin-purse.
Also, my labret is infected, but I don't think that's because of the mold so much as because I'd slacked off on listerine. Now I'm using Listerine and PerOxyl again and it's not going away, so it seems to be time to pick up more GlyOxide. I did the tea tree oil thing tonight & will probably do salt water later, as well as lavender flower tea compresses.
I got my application from Sarah Lawrence in the mail today and I think Autumn is right - it's a monster. Almost 30pp. She warned me that she knows people who decided not to apply based on the application and I can't say I blame them. It's a very expensive school and not my first choice at all, so I am thinking of just not bothering with the application at all. I already have a huge portfolio to complete in under 2 months.
Meep.
I got to the reds/pinks/oranges portion of my laundry and was horrified to find, for the first time ever, a big nasty patch of mold or mildew growing on something. The smell was amazingly offensive and I took the time to find out how to kill the evil spores by doing some searching. We don't have lemon juice, we don't have borax, we don't have anywhere I can dry the load in the sun - but AHA! we DO have white vinegar. So it is in there soaking in hot water and laundry detergent and 1/2c. white vinegar and, fingers crossed, that should do it. If not, the treatment is repeated & I have to pick up color-safe bleach.
I totally blame myself for not making it to the laundromat to dry this stuff this week (it was all the things that would hang-dry poorly), but I wasn't feeling well enough for that much labor. Maybe until we get the new dryer I should either hang ALL my clothes and then take some in to be softened-up in the laundromat dryers, or I should take all my laundry in to be done and only personally wash the stuff I can hang to dry. I loved going to the laundromat back in May and when I was doing it alone, but by September it had started to get old, and now it's very complicated because my mom goes & I get stuck there for a long time because she doesn't wash anything ahead of time & has other bizarre laundry-related idiosyncracies. It's hard to describe; mostly it's that I do the same amount of work as I did while she was gone, but it feels like two trips because of things like the car being so densely packed, not being able to choose the parking space, not having the big coin pouch at hand, that sort of thing. It usually involves a little bit more running around, and constant keeping-track-of-mom-because-she-has-the-coin-purse.
Also, my labret is infected, but I don't think that's because of the mold so much as because I'd slacked off on listerine. Now I'm using Listerine and PerOxyl again and it's not going away, so it seems to be time to pick up more GlyOxide. I did the tea tree oil thing tonight & will probably do salt water later, as well as lavender flower tea compresses.
I got my application from Sarah Lawrence in the mail today and I think Autumn is right - it's a monster. Almost 30pp. She warned me that she knows people who decided not to apply based on the application and I can't say I blame them. It's a very expensive school and not my first choice at all, so I am thinking of just not bothering with the application at all. I already have a huge portfolio to complete in under 2 months.
Meep.
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Date: 2001-02-11 07:18 am (UTC)Also, I just read an article on them describing the MASSIVE amount of paper-writing required ("two ten-page papers a week for almost every class") and I really wouldn't do that to myself, and I used to be a *writing* major. Plus, they don't really have a fine arts or graphic design major per se (not sure which one you're doing right now). Add to that the fact that its hideously expensive, and every professor-type of my acquaintance has sneeringly called it a "finishing school" college, and I think you're right for leaving it off the list.
I got the info from Parsons, SVA and Pratt yesterday, and had a LONG meeting with my Parsons/New School advisor about portfolio stuff, so I may call you this week to share some of his wisdom. Things have cleared up a great deal for me as he's explained the best way to make the smooth writing-to-art transition without having to start over.
I still would reccomend one of the early summer Parsons intesives, the point of which is entirely "to build a portfolio". But we'll talk about this soon.