Wishing it were spring!

So when I pulled this outfit together, I think I was thinking more “Paris in the spring” (not that I've been to Paris...) than “Boston in the dead of winter”. Unfortunately, I had to deal with the second one…Winter is not my favorite season, by a long shot. But it’s definitely something I have to encounter for the next two months at least. I can’t wait until it starts getting warm enough to go out without a heavy jacket and multiple pairs of tights! So of course I ended up wearing a sweatshirt over this for most of the day, as the lab was kind of cold. I think I ought to keep an eye open for some nice cardigans next time I go thrifting...



I’m trying the slip under a skirt thing again, this time less because of the length of the skirt and more to add an extra layer and some detail. Also, this skirt has pockets, which I love. It’s a favorite in my summer/fall wardrobe, but a bit thin for winter. The necklace is probably my favorite for sentimental reasons…my first gift from the boyfriend, as a holiday present. He’s got good taste in jewelry, luckily for me!





But yes. Looks like it’ll be a busy week. I had a number of meetings today, a rehearsal, and a good amount of time spent writing code. There’s going to be a fair amount of repetition of that for the rest of the week. Only two and a half weeks till this performance…wow! I have a fair amount of gesture recognition technology that I have to get actually working...much of the code I wrote today was more about getting the software ready to use in a performance scenario, rather than about fine-tuning the gesture recognition stuff so that it works reliably. (I am entertained by the fact that everyone else is completely sure I'll pull this all off; I'm the only one with doubts!)

Snowy day!

I woke up this morning to snowy skies (so much for "forty percent chance of snow"), so this outfit seemed appropriate. My favorite black turtleneck plus a plaid wool skirt that I thrifted a few weeks ago and since have worn quite a few times. It's actually nearish floor-length (though you can't quite tell from the pictures), so I'd originally gotten it with the intention to hem it to just above the knee. However, that may have to wait for this spring or probably next fall...right now it does quite well as a warm long winter skirt! (Also, it's quite a nice skirt, and nicely lined, so I'd have to be very careful with the hem. Maybe I can find another brown plaid skirt to make my shorter skirt?)



I started out this outfit with a bright blue belt over the turtleneck to help define the waist. However, it ended up being a bit too uncomfortable (little too tight of a belt) and not the best color for this palette. If I had a brown belt, that might be better.



The necklace is something that I had gotten for free off the campus-wide mailing list for things people are trying to get rid of. It seemed a bit much of a statement piece for me, but it's worth trying when it's free! However, I didn't wear it for a number of months...so here it is making its first public appearance.

Anyway. Spent much of my day in class (first day of classes today!) and meetings. Technically, I'm not supposed to take classes due to this being a thesis semester, but I'll be a listener (non-graded student who doesn't have to do assignments) on a pretty cool class on new textiles. Most of the class meetings are labs where we make things during class anyway, so I hopefully will get a lot out of it without being a full student in the class. And my rehearsal went quite well this evening, even if I didn't have any technology in it today. (perhaps especially because I didn't have any technology in it today!) We made a lot of progress on defining the arc and story for this particular duet, which was quite satisfying. Always a challenge to figure out how to add the technology in such a way that it is necessary and beneficial for the story, when I can tell a story in a satisfying way using just the movement and words...