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Portfolio day!

It was fun. I only lasted through two schools (FIT and Parsons) because waiting in line for two hours for FIT and then another 40 minutes for Parsons was so exhausting. :( But I got good advice from both schools.

It's weird that people start lining up hours before the portfolio reviews start. I did it too, but still... there must be a better system.

Hehehe... wondering how many people wished this were true.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/board/thread/147479329?d=147479329&p=1#147479329

P.S. I'm still around, just busy with school.
P.P.S. Usually couldn't care less about pop culture, but poor Taylor Swift! After I heard about what happened I watched a tiny clip of it from the VMA's, and the look on her face.... ;_;

I have an art mentor. :)

The teacher of one of my summer art classes kept pushing me last month to get in contact with this one art school graduate because she shares some traits with me (Modern Orthodox Jew, interested in illustration), but I didn't have the time or courage until last night to e-mail her. With the help of some making-contacts-savvy relatives I awkwardly typed up a few sentences and she replied twenty minutes later with three huge paragraphs of advice, ramblings about art school, and invitations to visit her some time. She's so cute! And her art style is very different from mine, but very pretty. I think I could learn a lot from her.

Why didn't I know about this show before?



It's so cute! Really funny, and a little bit slow sometimes, but you have to expect that with a preschool show. The great thing about it is that the main characters really seem like they have fun on set. It reminds me a lot of the Upside-Down Show (what ever happened to that show anyway?), only with more music.

(Hi, my name is Aurora, and I am addicted to children's TV.)

A few random musings 'cause I haven't updated in a while.

I finished The Boy in the Striped Pajamas on the train yesterday (I recommend the book to everyone, by the way; it's not quite historically accurate but it stills gets its intended message across and it's well-written) and all the books I'm still reading are too big to carry around the city. So to keep myself busy on the train I took out my ipod and watched The Great Divide. I just felt like watching an episode I don't know by heart. But it hasn't gotten any better since the first time I watched it. :(

I stopped at a book store for about 15 minutes this morning 'cause my train came in early and I read the picture book Eloise. It's so cute! Why didn't anyone read me this book when I was little?

Woohoo, as of about an hour ago I can officially take all the classes I want for senior year. :D And, even though a lot of my classtime is used up by noncredit art classes, my classes add up to the exact number of credits I need to graduate.