Jumbled Rambling Thoughts

It's been an interesting Friday... and at the moment my brain is nearly spinning out of control with a myriad of thoughts.
Here's a short grocery list of things plaguing my mind right now:

• COLLEGE.COLLEGE.COLLEGE.COLLEGE. applications/visits/essays/transcripts/SATs
• My desperate need to come up with an excellent graduation project by September 26th
• Two 3-paragraph English essays on Princess by Jean Sassoon and Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, and finishing the 50 last pages of Outliers due September 30th (nevermind the fact that I dont start Senior English until mid-January 2012).
• AP studio art - drawing vs. 2D design portfolio. which one -OR- both ?!?!
• Psychology project on Mary Ainsworth due September 26th and planning all the creative aspects of it / the food I have to make for the day
• Starting my first 2 AP Studio art projects: a hand/foot study & my own personal choice of attacking the most dreaded of all subjects... SELF-PORTRAITURE
• [And very stupidly]... I just found out that the spring musical this year at my school is probably going to be Legally Blonde the musical, which is only my favorite musical of all time. Knowing full well that it would likely never make an appearance at my high school, I vowed 3 years ago that if it were to ever to be our show, I would have to try out. So now I am freaking out because even though I have never been in a school-produced muscial in my life and I have absolutely zero singing ability, I want to be in this show. I've actually been singing this song all day.

So yes, those are my big concerns right now. Grad project is actually probably my largest concern since I have to basically figure it out this weekend.
Here's my idea:
To put together a collection of a few dresses and fashion accessories, and then attempt to make a handful of these and show them at the final display of my project. I love the beautiful and classy fashion sketches from the 1950s (my absolute favorite decade in history), featured below.

To me, this sounds great and like a ton of fun, but it also sounds like a ton of work and since I do not own a sewing machine, I fear its not even a feasible possibility. My mother and I are in the talks of buying a Bernina, but that has yet to happen, plus we have to do major research into costs (since the cheaper ones cost about $750) and where to buy one. I also need to contact a mentor, and though I have one in mind, she lives 3 hours away from me and I'm not sure how much she could help me if I needed it. Oh, and I also forgot to mention the fact that my sewing skills remain extremely basic, going off what I learned in the Sewing I class I took at school last year and some work I did over the summer. I'm not even sure if I could make my own dresses. I attemtped one this summer and it came down to a last-minute spazz attack when I realized that I had done some stitches wrong and I had run out of time to finish it for the art show. Here's a picture of the still-unfinished dress I designed, dyed, and sewed myself this summer (note: picture taken by my friend because I was too ashamed of it's sloppy state to take a picture):

(I'll explain more about this dress and it's creation

in my next post.)

So yes, that is my freak out at the moment.


Anyways, tomorrow I am going to Parsons in NYC for an open house. I'm kind of excited, but I have to wake up at 6am, which sucks considering it's a Saturday. But I'll probably sleep in the car. College stuff always freaks me out, but I've already taken a brief tour of Parsons so hopefully I'll just get some more information and a view of the dorm rooms. So it should be an eventful day!

And since it's almost 2:30am and I will be waking up in about 3 and a half hours, I believe I should probably get to bed.

I'd like to end my fridays with LOLpicture just to brighten things up for the weekend.

One of my favorite lolcat pictures is feature below. The cat's face is just so priceless.

It's not the funniest picture I own, but it's late and all my funny pictures are saved to my iPhone. So maybe I'll post a better one tomorrow.

Also, I will end today's post with my favorite song of all time by my favorite band of all time, called The Gambler by Fun. This song is so great, its helping to calm me down through all this stress.

Happy Friday!