haruki murakami said that & i love it; sundays are weirdly transient for me.
last night was phenomenal. i got to meet a design idol of mine & met another designer who quickly became a design idol by the time i got to shake his hand. it was surreal. plus i got to sit in a car with erin and talk, which was good for our friendship. because we have so many classes together, a lot of the time i worry that our friendship has become a giant complainfest.
i fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 4 am, carried gitsy to bed with me, and had a really peaceful sleep. i had the worst cramps ever this morning (enough to wake me up at 8:30 and make me nauseous) so i sleepily filled the bathtub with the hottest water my tap would allow, wrapped my shoulders in a towel i left on the radiator so it was warm, got in the tub, and fell back asleep until 9:30. it was honestly a great way to start the day. it's been stormy all day so i've been lazily napping on and off, doing work in between little sleeps.
i have a ridiculous workload for this week, more than might be possible and definitely more than i've had all semester, but i'm feeling strangely okay with it. i'm sitting on the floor at my grandma's farm table working in front of the tv and drinking coffee while gitsy sleeps in my lap. (i planned on going to starbucks but it's tornado-ing outside and i'm still nauseous, but it also just feels good to spend time at home today.)
i also got into advanced studio, which makes me feel really great. erin said something last night while we were at the conference about how at SAIC, everyone is great and you are constantly having to prove your worth and work as hard as you can to keep up and try to get to the top, but when you go elsewhere (we were at NIU, a state school with an arts program, but not an art school), you feel a little bit more experienced and prepared than other designers our age in school. and i agree with that, there is obviously a difference in the work. but it feels good to be recognized as good at my school, within my very closest design community.
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