Gah. Today has been one stupid mistake after another. XP

First, I got my portfolio all lovely and organized for my critique at 11:30. At 11:15, I headed over to the art building to get everything set up. Then I realized I had forgotten my thumbtacks to hang my work! So I ran back to my dorm. Along the way, I thought “hey! I should print out my pirate CG to show her how I’m applying what I learned in this class! So I printed it. Then I ran back, arriving at 11:31. My teacher was critiquing another student, so I sat down to wait for them to finish. At 11:50, I started to get confused. Why were they going so far into my time? Were they already that off schedule so early in the morning? So I found the signup sheet on the wall and saw that I had signed up for 1:30. *facepalm* Glad it wasn’t the other way around.

So with an hour and a half to burn, I decided to go catch a taxi to Pierre’s, the costume shop, to get another pair of elf ears for tonight. The ones I wore for my Nightcrawler costume are permanently blue, so unless I wanted to be an elf with gangrene, I needed another pair. I leafed through the back of my Book, where I keep addresses, and I couldn’t find a listing for Pierre’s. “3rd and Arch” I told the cabdriver, relying on memory. But when we finally got there, the store was nowhere to be seen. I looked through my Book again, and there it was, on the inside cover, the other place I keep addresses. Hah. So we went to the real address and found Pierre’s. Yay.

I asked the cab driver to wait outside for me, as it would only be the briefest of moments, and it’s in a part of town where there are never any taxis, so I would have to walk quite a ways to find one (learned from experience last time!). So I went to the display, only to see that there were no ears. I asked a store attendant, who told me that the shipment hadn’t gotten in yet. Just great.

I went back to the cab, acting as though my mission had been successful, but highly disappointed inside. As we rounded the block (crazy one-way streets), a sudden thought struck me. Hey! The store has flesh-colored liquid latex! I could just paint over my Kurt ears! But because of my previous mistake, I decided that he would think I was a moron if I asked him to turn around and take me back. Five minutes I agonized. Should I? Shouldn’t I? Finally, I snapped, and asked him to take me back. He sighed loudly, clearly feeling very put-upon.

So I got the liquid latex, no fuss, paid the now rather fat cab bill, and went back to my dorm. I dug out all my makeup stuff and the old ears and started painting. But at the third layer, I realized it wasn’t going to cut it. The blue was incredibly stubborn and kept showing through. And the multiple layers of latex were building up in weird ways, getting a bit bumpy and nasty. Wearing them, I would look more like an orc. Finally, at 1:10, I gave up and went off to my critique. So now, not only will I have no ears to wear tonight, but I also destroyed my Kurt ears. Ah, well. Such is life.

Thankfully, Karma caught back up with me in time for my critique, so it went fabulously. But still, wah.

::sigh::

EDIT: And now yet ANOTHER person has emailed me to cancel on the movie tonight. Three people in the last three days. Glad I still have Rachel and Carmen. *shakes fist at the Jing, Abe, and Sam.* Hey, Allison! Do you have tickets yet?