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DAY 51

Wow, Thursday was such an awesome day! I woke up pretty early to get ready to go to the sample sale. The sample sale, is well, a sale of clothes that are all samples. It was everything you can fit into a bag for 50 dollars! I bought 2 bags of course. You would be surprised how much you could fit into a bag.

It was a little bit crazy. There was this huge line just waiting to get in. Once they opened the gates to start shopping, people literally started to run. Like seriously, is that necessary? But it was kind of intimidating, kind of like the movie 300. But I ended up getting a lot of awesome stuff, seriously SO SO many clothes! I was dying. I had a nice little clothing high for the rest of the day.

After that, I took the train to the store. And the store wasn't bad at all this day. The girl who I really didn't like before is actually turning into a fun person to work with. We just laughed and joked around the whole day, which made the work go by so much faster.

We are in the process of working on a huge exterior display of tropical looking leaves. Some are wooden and some are fabric. Well, the fabric ones need some structure to stand up, so our job was to wire about 100 gigantic canvas leaves. We did this all day. The leaves were already sewn with a a little hole to get the wire in and lining the perimeters. To be honest, I was really annoyed at first. This job was SO tedious. And I knew that we would be doing this ALL day. But that feeling only lasted for a couple minutes and it turned out to be kind of fun and definitely not as hard as I thought it would be. It's also nice to come up with creative ways to get things done, and then you think wow, that was a pretty easy/neat way and I came up with it. Haha.

DAY 52

Friday was such a beautiful day outside! It should have been a really wonderful day - nice weather, free lunch at the navy yard, I was looking fly in my new garb, but it wasn't.

For some reason I was in such a terrible mood, like all day. I think it was because I was talking to a friend who is still in Columbus and a wave of different emotions came over me. Like, I was super pissed at one point that I wasn't still there, enjoying my friends company and seeing all of the people at school every week at seminar like a lot of other people get to do. Then I would feel really triumphant that I was somewhere far away doing something awesome every single day. But at the same time, I didn't have any friends to celebrate that with. I don't know, I just felt odd and irrational all day. I was also pretty resentful and bitter towards certain people I left behind.

But my mom and I went to the park after work, which made me feel a little better about things. Life is life, and this is one of many times I'll feel discomfort but it doesn't last forever.

Anyway, at work that day I was doing the same thing over and over again. I scanned about 200 pictures of store front windows. They are like blue prints that the visual team likes to have so they can map out the different concepts for each season and send them to stores so the stores have a little guide of what to put in their window. It got kind of old, but I had a chance to do other things in between the scanning.

The other thing that I was doing was looking up pictures for the Fall Inspiration. It was amazing, I can't believe that this was my assignment. It was basically looking up things on the internet like blogs and other things like magazines and finding images that represent the concepts. It was awesome and I think that this is something that I am very good at. So it felt good to know what I'm doing and being confident that it was the right thing.

I am really enjoying walkabout!

DAY 53

Saturday my parents and I went to the zoo. It was lovely.

Then we went shopping.

Then we had a good dinner.

Not a shabby Saturday!! :)