Two kinds of crafty bastards

[bironic]

Ventured to Adams Morgan this morning with a coworker to browse the Crafty Bastards arts fair in the chilly rain. (It's fall! Hurrah!) Despite the weather, it was a good time. I even purchased some non-necessary items, such as a tiny crocheted jellyfish from needlenoodles (and now I know what amigurumi is, having wondered after this), a bit of wooden art featuring two jellyfish/octopi things reaching for each other, and "brain wash" soap for decoration. I also won a pickle on a stick at a Potbelly booth, and out of the blue met Jay McCarroll from season one of Project Runway! It is debatable which of the above made me happiest.

This week also included some much-needed clothes shopping, as I have about three long-sleeved shirts I can wear to work and no boots. So as of yesterday there are boots, and as of Thursday there is a sweater and a sweater dress. Maybe I can take care of the rest in one more trip (Columbus Day sales?) and be done for the winter. I do really like the dress and the boots, though. They're, like, almost fashionable?

If the new year is supposed to set the tone for the months ahead, I guess my theme is… commercialism? Or, to frame it more constructively, an attempt to present myself better through clothing and actually decorate my apartment after two years.

And now I will do some more freelance work to bump that disposable income back up.

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Reason #8 I'm proud to be a (nonfictional) MIT alum: the Cornell-MIT Fictional Alumni Face-off. Round One: Lex Luthor vs. Ling Woo. (You can guess who won by a landslide.) Hoping David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day) shows up on the ballot! Other expected contestants include Tony Stark. Cornell doesn't stand a chance, mwahaha. Maybe another face-off will follow with a fairer match pitting MIT against Harvard. Or Oxford or Cambridge.

My favorite exchange from the comments section:

Doug Hough says: Lex Luthor is what all MIT students would like to be, if they had the personality.
Kestrell says: Actually, there are a few of us who would like to be Richard Feynman, if only we had the personality.

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L'shana tova, everyone who is celebrating. ♥

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*laugh* MIT could kick Harvard's ass handily. I should know -- I went to Harvard.

Happy New Year!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*g* Wikipedia tells me Harvard can claim Frasier Crane and Josh Lyman, so that's something, at least.

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

a bit of wooden art featuring two jellyfish/octopi things reaching for each other

You know, I'm shocked a domicile of yours was ever without such a thing.

And happy new year!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That is what I thought when I saw the booth full of art. :)

Thank you!

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year, darling! This year I've completely forgotten, so I didn't wish a happy new year to any of my f-listers at all (and I only managed a few emails full of sorry-I'm-late to longtime friends).

Great purchases, indeed. Of course what I bought in a similar situation was an African wooden sculpture of Borromeans rings vaguely looking like a threesome :).

Feynman's personality strikes one as less than lovable from his books, but his gift was definitely unique and we're stilltryingto make sense of some of the stuff he left us with.

I don't know about fiction, but in RL MIT is vastly superior to Harvard. Oxford and/or Cambridge would be a much bettermatch, or Berkeley or Chicago if you want to stay in the same country. And being a female student at MIT... wow. How's the genderimbalance doing? Last I heard, they were still struggling withit (and let's not even talk about professors, shall we?)

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh ooh, was Jay McCarroll awesome? He's still one of my favorite PR alums! And he seems like he'd be a sweetheart.