Wow!

[dancerjodi]

So I met with my old Sociology Professor at Simmons last night. It was nice to drive in again like in the good-ole-days though its odd walking around in a building that's been added to and changed since I graduated 4 years ago. Half of the parking lot is taken up by new construction due to be finished next year which will house the School of Social Work (moving from Comm. Ave), The School of Library and Information Sciences and some administrative offices. And the Sociology Department moved down one floor and to the other end of the building.

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Professor London is one of the most dedicated and enthusiastic professors that I had while at Simmons. He is passionate about his work and would do anything for a student. He happened to have time to meet last night because he was waiting around until 6:30 when he would take all interested Sociology students to his house for the "Sociology Department Kick-Off Dinner of the Year".

We discussed the program that I'm applying for and various others; he thinks that given what I'm looking for the one at Umass would actually be the best fit. He told me that he's sent about 5 Simmons Alumna there over the last few years and all of them were accepted and did well in the program. In addition, he offered to take a look at my entrance essay to critique it (and, to get a good idea of the kinds of things I've been doing over the last few years and my reasoning for applying to the program). After reviewing it he is going to give his good-ole friend (the founder of the program and ex-program director) a call about me in addition to completing a recommendation letter for me to include with my application. So now I need to complete that essay (or, more like a paper - it needs to be around 1200 words!) in the next week or so so that he can read and critique it, call the guy from UMass and then call me back to discuss what he found out/what that person's opinion of me as a candidate is before I go to NOLA on 10/11! Its going to be a busy couple of weeks.

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I just can't wait to work on my sewing once this is all done. I'm working on an urban camo (black, gray and white) fleece jacket for my nephew for Christmas, some flannel pajamas for B which will work into his Halloween Costume and hopefully (money and time willing) a Halloween dress for me (the one on the left):

http://store.sewingtoday.com/cgi-bin/butterick/shop.cgi?s.item.3012=x&TI=10060&pageNum=4&M=&UK=10186110

Comments

wow!

[abtarchive.livejournal.com]

I cant believe you can sew like that-- and that dress is stunning!!

Really expands the dress-up possibilities, too :)

How did you learn, did family members teach you?

Re: wow!

[dancer.livejournal.com]

My Mom has always sewed and so I grew up around her doing it; she started to try and teach me around age 12. My grandmother gave me a few lessons and I took a sewing class in High School to learn some of the "official" techniques.

I'm fine with a pattern but I'd REALLY love to figure out how to make my own patterns or adapt patterns to other sizes. Its just on the list of things to do, once I have time :)

[nepenthedreams]

So beautiful! I saw that pattern, but it's a bit challenging for me to try. Plus I have *no* time - so much so that I haven't finished my quilts yet.

Can't wait to see your dress - what fabric/colors are you doing it in?

The dress

[dancer.livejournal.com]

I really want to do it in some kind of dark/deep blue since I don't have many things in blue. . . we'll see what kind of affordable (but still appropriate) fabric that I can have.

I may do some more GRE procrastinating today and go to Chinatown to check out fabrics.