Week 13 Check-In

I have a funny story for you. One day I came onboard with Visions6, blinked, and…OH MY GOSH IT’S THIS FRIDAY! This has been a killer week. Literally. My last blog took place before the t-shirt apocalypse of 2016. Everyone was right, tie-dyeing is a lot of fun…however 50 shirts into it you start questioning your decision. By the 100^th shirt you’re not only questioning your decision, but your sanity as well, and by the 115^th shirt you’re just so done with the art of tie-dyeing. This was me, Devon, my roommates, and a few of our friends last weekend. We tie-dyed every single shirt last Saturday, and I went back and forth between my apartment and my downstairs neighbor’s apartment to get them all washed and dried properly to prevent the bleach from forming holes. It pretty much consumed the entire day and was incredibly tiring. On Sunday we moved on to the painting process….and while it was much more exciting than the bleaching, it took FOREVER. We started around noon and were not finished until after 6:30 that evening. My roommates are literally the bomb for not only helping me, but for committing their time, sharing their space since t-shirts were hung all over our apartment, and for making a process that could have been entirely dreadful 10x better. I pretty much ate dinner when we were done and went to sleep after taking them all down from where they were hanging. They were all put on my dining room table since I needed my racks back to hang my clothes that were lying on my bed back up in my closet. On Monday I took meeting minutes again at the weekly meeting for Programming and Operations. When I got back I folded up all of the shirts by size and sorted them nicely into the boxes, which took about an hour. It was quite the relief seeing them all nicely folded in the boxes. During class on Tuesday I was incredibly unsettled to learn that any sign of glitter in Lumina would result in being fined. Considering the amount of time I personally had put into the shirts, yes I was upset, and while it may have been unprofessional, it did show, but there was absolutely no way of hiding my frustration. When the shirts were voted on, why was nothing said of the glitter situation? If I had known all along, we would have stuck to fabric paint without glitter. More people were supposed to help us with them as well, but I guess when I took initiative and made my own sign-up sheet for help, I ruffled some feathers. However, they look kickass and I was more than willing to take on the challenge. I had a lot of help yes, but I still put in the most time and effort towards the shirts since they were my responsibility, not my roommates. Tuesday night I stayed up well past 2am working on everything Devon and I were critiqued on in class. On Wednesday night I was up until 3am discussing on Facebook how submissions were going to be voted on. I finally caved to the committee and went along with judging them based off of applause, even though I thought I was no longer allowed to take any help from them. This week has not been fun, but it has definitely been a learning experience. Everything being done from here on out is only being done to make this year’s video race the best one yet! On Thursday Devon and I met with Sydney to get the process of participants submitting videos to us figured out, discovering four ways that should work. I’ve also been keeping up with the social media schedule and have been seriously promoting the prop box. I’m incredibly nervous that we won’t have twenty-five by Tuesday, but we’ll keep pushing and getting people excited about it!