Is it dandee or dandoo?

I'm playing the waiting game.

I'm anticipating February and March.

Going on a trip to sin city next month, and then see Gaga at the end of March.

I've never really thought about or desired to go to Las Vegas, but since it's for school and I got this opportunity to go, I think it's going to be fun.   I know everyone's going to be smashed, and it's only three days, but..  I don't know, I don't really know what to expect out of it.  I just hope I meet some interesting and important people.

GODGA.   I miss her so much, ahhhh.   It's been a whole year since I've seen her!  I can't wait to see her again.   Last year, I remember just gawking at her and her outfits, and every time she'd leave the stage to change again and again. She was just incredible.  I can't wait. 

School's been alright.   Today was pretty exhausting and I'm not sure why.  We did stateboard drills at the end of the day, but I was exhausted before that even happened, and I'm confused because I didn't really do shit today.


I've been thinking a lot about my plan of action for the future, though.

I mean, I thought I knew what I was going to do until I met Diana Schmidtke and heard her whole life story, and that's made me completely re-think everything I had planned to do.   Hearing everything she had to say on the industry and working on set and what you need and what kind of attitude you have to have, who you go about contacting, etc. etc, just all of it.  It was eye opening, and I'm really grateful to have listened to her story. 

It was enough to get me to buy her book, which was funny because I was pretty cynical at first. 

When I found out we were having a guest speaker and I heard one of the teachers say "her books are in the other room", I thought "Jesus christ, this is a ploy to get us to spend money."   After hearing her talk, my mind was changed pretty quickly and I went and bought it.

So far I've read the first few chapters and I'm glad I bought it.  There's a shit ton of information in it that I had no idea about, that I would have never thought about. 


One thing she did for me was solidify my desires to relocate to NYC.   She flat out said, LA and NYC are the major hubs for this kind of work--- but the catch is, in LA, you'll mainly get entertainment business work.  NYC is where you'll find the creative, avant-garde, fashion-driven, editorial, runway, amazingness that I dream about. 

I'm not interested in doing campaign ads for old navy or pac sun.  I could give a shit about making a TV celebrity look natural and pretty a million times over for the same teen girl magazine.  I mean, a job's a job in the beginning, but it's just not the field I wanna get stuck in. 

So, I'm going to start planning that. 

And advanced education.  That was another thing she said that was inspiring.  Never ever fucking stop learning.  Graduating from this school isn't the last stop for me.  I'm going to be taking advanced cutting and coloring classes.  I want to take wig making classes.  I'm definitely going to makeup school.   I'm going to become certified in extensions and brazilian blowouts and anything and everything left that there is to take. 

Even if I'm up to my ears in loans to pay off.  It just needs to happen. 

I really liked her though.  I definitely want to be as good as her someday.