scholarly celebrations and one long website address

i don't really have a lot to report but thought it was probably time i reported something. my life has been a lot of the same. dance is busy, our show opens 3 weeks today and i think this caught a number of people by surprise so now all of a sudden the rehearsal schedule has been turbo-charged. and my apparel design class is still going strong. we have 3 weeks left of that too. last week we had to design and create some kind of children's wear garment. i made a little pink quilted vest with hearts on it and a hood. it was pretty cute actually. i liked it. it's a shame i don't know how to do nice finishing things, cuz it looks nice on the outside but it looks like a trainwreck on the inside... weird things are happening in this post. for some reason the pictures are different sizes and all of a sudden my text is blue and underlined. like one big website address... hmm. i'm choosing to ignore it. speaking of sewing that little love vest, I was a busy little bee this weekend. Friday night we had a youth event. it was an iron chef event and it was pretty fun. It was made much more fun by my nephew lending me his spiderman apron and chef's hat. so even though our food didn't taste very good, i at least looked the part.

saturday (ooh the blue is gone) i worked at the flower shop. i actually really enjoyed it. I was given complete creative freedom to make foam arrangements (where the flowers are stuck in the foam block, not arranging foam). I was happy with the way they turned out and my boss seemed pretty impressed. I would have liked to have taken pictures of them but, alas, i have no camera. anyways, i worked until 5 and then kyle and his parents picked me up and i had to fancy it up in a hurry for kyle's grad dinner at prov which started at 6. we were cutting it a little close. the dinner was goodish. the food was good but the atmosphere was crappy. it was in their gym and they didn't decorate it at all and the food was cafeteria style and the speeches were bad. kyle and i kind of went into it expecting it to be lame and it was, but we also realized it was actually a pretty significant weekend in his life and we were glad to celebrate it, even if the event was poorly planned... here we are: (we kept getting in trouble for ruining the grad photos. this is one of the better ones...)

after the dinner we went out for gelato. i had raspberry and passionfruit sorbeto after much deliberation. why is it that little decisions (like what kind of gelati to have) are the hardest ones to make? i had to test out a number of kinds before i settled. (and by settled i mean i pulled one of my usual tricks... i made the person working there decide for me - lindsey, you're familiar with this trick...) but in any case, it was delicious. and big. (note: i did not wear this big blue thing to the grad... i was cold. i'm wearing kyle's jogger)
Kyle got presents. He got a watch from his parents and money to buy new rims for his bycicle (woot). and he got an argentinian soccerball from his sister who's in argentina. he was pumped.

after the grad dinner and gelato excursion, we had to go way out to charleswood for my dance social. which was a hoot. which means it wasn't really and we only stayed for 20 minutes to see if we won any of the prizes. we didn't.

and then there was sunday, which saw us at the providence college convocation. it was also long and boring. and many people complained that it was hot. but i thought it was nice... look at kyle in his funny suit. the hood was the funniest part. although there were some other outfits that were much funnier. all the faculty were wearing different mideval suits. it entertained me.

hooray for graduating.