Crap Weather Blues

    I don't know about you guys but I'm completely SICK of winter, especially living somewhere that you don't really get to enjoy the benefits.  It would be one thing if I lived somewhere that I could go cross country skiing or inner-tubing or if I lived somewhere warm where the weather never really changed but instead I live where we just get grey and ick.  Mainly we get the occasional bout of freezing rain or freezing fog, if we do get snow its usually less than an inch, never enough to even go sledding.  The light quality sucks, I'm kind of sick of drawing right now and the light quality is horrible for photography.  I've been writing a bit, getting some good responses but more than anything I've been escaping to watch my little pony and down prozac.  I really need to move back either somewhere with better weather or to a big city where there's stuff to do when the weather sucks.
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Living for Today

As I've said before I can't live for someday, I've got to live for today because someday may never come.  So I know that I've said that "someday" I'd like to go to Yale for a masters in photography, well I've decided instead to live for today. 

I may have mentioned it before but there is a school in London known as the London College of Fashion and they have an MFA program in Fashion Photography and what's great is that their program seems to really have that balance of employability and fine art that I'm looking for.  I actually think this might even be a better fit for me than Yale would have been, don't get me wrong going to a school where people pay you millions of dollars a shot when you graduate would be fabulous but unless you've got wealthy politician parents that went to the school and a 4.0 GPA, getting in is like winning the powerball, maybe even harder since only 7 people get into Yale MFA Photo every year and probably dozens of people win the powerball every year. 
The reality is though that when I really thought about my visual ascetic and the kind of life style I want to live when I'm done with graduate school LCOF just made sense, it fit.

 The thing is I really do actually love fashion too, not like what's trendy at Walmart kind of fashion but like gorgeous art wear type fashion.  One of the girls I went to college with made dresses out of teabags and hair and different weird things and they were really some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen I totally loved them.  I hope I can get in.

That really is the thing isn't it, getting in...

You can have all the greatest ideas and intentions in the world but until you make it happen its less relevant than a fart in a stiff wind.  I'm not totally sure how to make it happen.  How do I get all the pieces to line up to give me the best possible shot, and will even my best shot be enough to get me in? How do I know who to ask to write me a letter for graduate school? How do I know what pieces to pick? Should I pick things that are more conceptual or technical? Should I send them a CD or print a book?

I miss college when if it really mattered one way or another the teacher would just tell you and otherwise it was up to your own discretion.