清明。
I’ve accidentally been doing some Spring Cleaning these days. I reorganized the things in my sister’s room and moved most of my stuff out of there. I also threw away a lot of things (ex. a box full of plastic spoons that were decorated with hairties, nail polish, and various plastic bags; really rusty kids’ earrings; a million old receipts and snack wrappers; $25USD in a red pocket; Barbie lipstick from 2011) and rediscovered some (a lot) of her belongings. Then yesterday I convinced my mom to dig through the upstairs storage full of bedding and co. We threw away a bunch of yellowing pillows and flat comforters, and some suspicious bedsheets that we apparently acquired from someone when we helped them move house. I found some sheets we never used, as well as an unlabelled IKEA fabric of some sort. I plan to use them to make and edit clothing.
Which leads me to my newest train of though: clothing. I talked about this briefly to one of the 6/7 classes I guest-teach in, but this thought is born only partially out of concern with fast fashion. Realistically, none of my individual choices will ever have an impact on the Global Way Of Things (which is where fast fashion lives and dies), and my footprints don’t matter at all. This is fine by me, because I don’t want any responsibility. I produce garbage and I consume garbage, and I will die as garbage too. It’s great! Although I am somewhat of a nihilist, above all, I am practical. A lot of clothing out there are 1) too expensive, 2) too cheaply made while also being expensive, and 3) some random size that doesn’t fit me. The logical solution here is to simply make clothing for myself based on my own likes using materials we have in the house. Genius. If I want pockets in my skirts, I could just make them.
That’s a similar conclusion to last term’s post, actually. Hopefully I actually follow through and learn how to sew clothing… I didn’t really think too hard about the technicalities yet, but I’ve bookmarked a bunch of videos and tutorials. It’ll be fine, I think.
Anyway! The next few weeks are going to be quite busy again. I’m having a lot of fun in the schools just kinda floating around and helping out as much as I can. I am also annoying, I think, but so far no one has complained (except one kid who didn’t hear my instructions). Lovely stuff. Hopefully (again) it stops raining by the next solar term. Until then.
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