Swim Team Apparel Order

Swim Team Apparel Order

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Grinnell Swimmers and Divers,

 

I’ve completed the final designs based on your input and we are now ready to order our apparel. Thanks to everyone for your advice and praise on the preliminary designs.

 

I tried my hardest to keep the prices low by using single color and single-sided designs for most of the items. We also are saving money and keeping money in Grinnell by using a local business, Awards Unlimited, as our supplier. 

 

The items we will be ordering (Mock-ups at bottom of post):

 

1. Regular Season T-Shirt (Scarlet, white screenprint) $7

 

2. Regular Season Crewneck Sweatshirt (scarlet, White screenprint) $15

 

3. Shorts (Red, black screenprint, 9 inches, with pockets.) $15.50

 

4. Tank Top (black, Two-sided scarlet screenprint!) $11

 

5. Conference Win T-Shirt (Red, black screenprint) $8

 

6. Warm-up Jacket (Black, red accents and embroidery) $45

 

 

 

Place your order on the GoogleDoc Spreadsheet and follow my example to make sure its filled in correctly. 

 

The GoogleDoc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApdaMBM9Z_btdFN4VC1UM2FkcVI3ZHh0QWZJcXFBd2c&usp=sharing

 

 

 

MONEY IS DUE TO ME IN CASH OR CHECK FORM BY SUNDAY, APRIL 6. ANY UNPAID ORDER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE SPREADSHEET.

 

The order will be placed on Monday, April 8 and clothing should be delivered in 1.5-2 weeks.

 

 

 

Mock-ups

NOTE: These are rough photoshopped renderings. Actual product may appear slightly different.

 

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Regular Season T-Shirt

 

 

ImageRegular Season Crewneck Sweatshirt

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Shorts (with pockets)

ImageTank  Top Front

ImageTank Top Back

ImageConference Win T-Shirt

ImageJacket

 

 

 

 

 

Motivational Posters for Midsems Week!

Motivational Posters for Midsems Week!

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It's midsems week here at Grinnell, which means stress and studying for everyone. Enjoy these motivational posters I designed awhile back and remember that you can do this, Grinnellians! Just a few days until Spring Break!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grinnell Swimming & Diving- Preliminary Clothing Designs

Grinnell Swimming & Diving- Preliminary Clothing Designs

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Hi Grinnell Swimmers and Divers,

Just wanted to place this where you all could easily see it. Here are the designs for the 2012-2013 season apparel order. I'll be meeting with the apparel provider this week to check on sample items and determine final prices. An order form will be sent to the team via GoogleDocs early next week. Payment is due by Wednesday, April 4. More details to follow. For now, enjoy the designs and let me know of any changes you'd like to see. (Please note, these are ROUGH ideas of how the design will look on the products. I will be providing the printer with high-resolution design files.)

I tried to keep the designs simple and single color/single-sided to reduce the costs of ordering.

The items we will be ordering:

1. Warm-up jacket (Black, red accents, red embroidery on front-left chest and below neck on back.) — NOT PICTURED. ~$45

2. Crew neck Sweatshirt (Scarlet, white printing) ~$15

 

3. Simple t-shirt (Scarlet, white printing) ~$7

4. Tank Top (Black, red printing, 2-sided) ~$15

Front


Back

Shorts (Black, mesh, WITH pockets, red printing) ~$15

Conference Win Celebration t-shirt (Scarlet, black printing) ~$7

 

New Blog Design and Getting Back to Business

New Blog Design and Getting Back to Business

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Hello readers!

I’m back! It’s been a very busy time getting reacquainted with school and the States again. I had a successful swim season and am enjoying my various classes at Grinnell.

I’ve redesigned the blog to begin its next stage: my personal website. I’ll be adding a wealth of content (such as this page for my digital media class!) and posting on a variety of things. Let me know if you encounter any problems, and let me know what I can improve aesthetically. This redesign is not the final draft, so stay tuned and enjoy the changes as they come!

Much love,
Eric

Coming Home.

Coming Home.

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Finally, the journey is complete. It's been an amazing experience. I've grown in ways I never could expect and saw more of London and of the world than I ever could imagine.

This blog has also been an amazing experience in itself. I wrote at least one post with pictures every single day, sometimes more. I've edited over 900 pictures for this blog (and taken literally thousands more). This blog transformed from a mere record of my journey into something more; it's an artifact of my life in London and definitively one my proudest works to date.

With that, I want to thank some people. First, my parents and Grinnell College, for making all of this possible. Next, the rest of my amazing family for their love and support and constant praise. Next, Emily, for making the homesickness a little easier to bear and giving me so much to look forward to when I return home. I'd also like to thank all of my amazing friends on the program, back home in Grinnell, and fellow abroadlings for making this semester great and forming such incredible memories. A huge thank you goes out to Donna Vinter, Caroline Hart, and Professors Prevost, Nuttall, Guenther, Delminico, & Layton-Jones; you all helped make the program so incredibly enriching and life-changing with both your teaching and your conversations. I also owe a major thank you to the Grinnell AV Department in conjunction with the Off-Campus Study Office for providing me with an amazing DSLR camera to document the journey. Finally, my warmest thanks to all of you readers; I've had over 5000 page views from dozens of countries around the world and your comments and praise helped keep me motivated to keep writing and adventuring.

 

This may be the last Grinnell-In-London blog, but I hope to make sure that it isn't the last blog. Updates will be less frequent, but I plan on sharing bits from my life here. You'll see my photography, my art, my writing, food creations, etc. I hope you've enjoyed the London blog and will occasionally pop over to see what's new at The Life and Times of Eric Mistry. Thanks again for being amazing, dear readers.

With all of that out of the way, I just wanted to reflect on the journey, first with some statistics, then with some final musings.

The Numbers (And More Subjective Things…)

  • Plays: 17 Full Productions (Including 5 Shakespearean Plays)
  • Countries: 4 (UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain)
  • Cities: 15 (London, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Salisbury, Bruges, Brussels, Venice, Florence, Rome, Sorrento, Termini, Bari, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Edinburgh)
  • Blog Posts: 149
  • Reader Views Before This Post: 5128
  • Edited Pictures: 930 (Note: EDITED, I took thousands more.)
  • Favorite Pub: Exmouth Arms
  • Favorite Fish and Chips: Poppies
  • Favorite Local Brew: Camden Ink (Delicious stout with chocolate overtones.)
  • Favorite Purchase: Tied between my leather briefcase or vintage leather bomber jacket.
  • Favorite British Word: Cheers!
  • Favorite Memory: TOO MANY TO CHOOSE!!!

This has been the trip of a lifetime. I've seen an insane amount of sites and sights, walked miles and miles around Europe, and made some amazing friendships along the way. It wasn't always easy, but keeping a good attitude helped make everything easier. I've learned a lot about myself as a person, but also learned some important skills that I will definitely be using for the rest of my life, namely learning to cook for 4+ people and how to take good photographs.

I've made some small collages below that capture a few of my favorite snapshots from the trip.

So thank you for sticking with me, dear reader. It's been an amazing journey, and I was glad to bring you along.

Now, it's time to go home.

Much love,

Eric

The Final Night!

The Final Night!

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It’s been a long time, but it’s finally here: the final night in London.

It’s been quite a journey and my post tomorrow will reflect on the journey as a whole. For now, though, I want to focus on this final night.

After all the packing was finally complete, we all flew between each other’s flats, saying our see-you-laters and enjoying one another’s company.

We capped the night with a trip to the Exmouth Arms, my favorite pub. I got a few pints of my favorite local brew and we enjoyed great conversation and delicious food. I decided to go full circle with this trip; thus, my first and last meal in London was Exmouth Arms’ sliders. They were perfect, and I decided to order a round of chips to accompany them today. I ended up deciding on the Exmouth Chicken Club, the sirloin burger with confit onions, and the classic lamb and feta burger. It was the perfect way to end this trip of a lifetime, surrounded by friends and food. All in all, a good day. I arrive home tomorrow. (FINALLY) London, it’s been wonderful.

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Delicious Sliders!!!

The Final Banquet

The Final Banquet

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Tonight, we gathered as a group for the last time to celebrate finishing Grinnell in London.

The papers are in, the bags are (nearly) packed, and the last little things are finally being done. The banquet was a nice cap to the semester. It was so nice to get to get together with all of the wonderful people who made this semester what it was. Not only did I get to dine and chat with my fellow Grinnell-in-Londoners as a large group, but I also got to say some final goodbyes and thank yous to the program professors and staff.

It was a wonderful evening filled with great conversation and fantastic food. We dined at the Clerkenwell Kitchen, a little restaurant right by our flat. We each received a three course meal. I started with a delectable English Onion Soup. It was rich, hearty, and wonderfully seasoned. I quickly gobbled it up and eagerly awaited the main course. I had opted for the roasted sirloin served with vegetables, which turned out to be parsnips, potatoes, and sprouts. It was a delicious and quite filling entrée. Finally, for dessert, I opted for the toffee pudding, which was scrumptious and not terribly heavy, a sweet way to top off a fabulous meal.

After the meal, we convened to snag a final group shot. It is somewhat crazy to see how much we've grown together on this semester together. We've bonded over an incredible experience and it's been wonderful to make so many new friends. We said our goodbyes see-you-laters and headed back home to polish off some more packing. All in all, a good day. My final day in London is tomorrow. Pictures below.

Teddy and I

 

Soup!

 

Fresh Sourdough! Yum!

 

The Main Course

 

Delectably Delicious Dessert

 

What a group!

 

Adventures at Stonehenge!

Adventures at Stonehenge!

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Today was a glorious celebration of 12/12/12. I visited Stonehenge (one of my life dreams), as well as the nearby town of Salisbury and the castle ruins at Old Sarum.

I began my day early this morning by catching a bus from Victoria Station in London. I enjoyed the nice, long bus ride to Salisbury by reading, working on a paper, and sketching in my notebook. Finally, I arrived in Salisbury and bought my combination ticket to Stonehenge, Old Sarum, and the tour bus. There was a bit of time to kill, so I meandered around the local Christmas market in the town square. I found a little present for one of my readers out there, so that was exciting as well!

Finally, the tour bus departed and I enjoyed the ride to Stonehenge and all the interesting facts the tour told us along the way. Apparently, Salisbury was a major strategic location in World War I and II, serving as a mustering point and training ground for the Allied Forces before they shipped off to continental Europe. As Stonehenge approached, we learned a bit about its evolution and what little history we know. The technological achievement was amazing at the time, and even holds up today. (An attempt to move a similarly large stone in the early 2000s in a historical reenactment ended in total failure.)

At long last, we finally pulled up to Stonehenge. It was truly amazing. The massive rock pillars stand in a wide open field, dwarfing everything around them. Majestic, ancient, and imposing, they are like nothing I have ever seen. They seem almost out-of-this-world and as old as time itself. This feeling was augmented by the Wiccan/Pagan/Druid followers that turned out in a sizable number to celebrate the occurrence of 12:12 on 12/12/12. They brought incense and chiming bells, and also organized a rhythmic chant amongst themselves. As the minute drew close, everything but a low hum from the bells went silent. Then, as if on a cue, the sun burst from behind the clouds, illuminating everything. It was one of the most magical moments in my life.

Majestic Stonehenge

 

After that, I walked around the structures, taking tons of pictures and enjoying the moment. Stonehenge is incredible, and these pictures don't even begin to do it justice. The sense of something bigger than the individual is unavoidable as one gazes upon these ancient monuments lost in time.

Post-Stonehenge, I made my way back to the bus, which took me to Old Sarum, a massive hill complex that holds the ruins of a castle used by William the Conqueror in the 1080s. It was really beautiful and peaceful, and offered an excellent view of the surrounding countryside.

The last cool thing I had to see was the famous Salisbury Cathedral. It towers over the city and dwarfs everything in sight. It was absolutely gorgeous. After snapping a few pictures, I walked around the town, finally warming up with a little coffee at a cafe before heading to the bus.

All in all, a wonderful day. Only a few left. Pictures below!

 

 

 

 

The Countryside

 

Heading up to Old Sarum

 

Beautiful Light by Old Sarum

 

View of Salisbury from Old Sarum

 

Castle Ruins

 

Adventuring Amongst the Ruins

 

Salisbury Cathedral

View from the Front

 

The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town

The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town

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For one of my last evenings in London, I decided to have a little fun and check out a nearby speakeasy, The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town.

Cleverly hidden, the Mayor is quite a find. In fact, it doesn't even have a street entrance. You have to ask to be let in by the restaurant above it, a charming breakfast diner called The Breakfast Club. We entered The Breakfast Club, and when the waiter asked where we'd like to sit, we told him we were looking for the Mayor. He then led us to the 50's era SNEE refrigerator, opened the door, and led us down a staircase hidden inside. That's right. The entrance to the speakeasy is through a REFRIGERATOR. It was pretty phenomenally cool.

We made it down the stairs and got a table. After some consultation with the bartender, I ended up ordering a cocktail called the “King Yellowman's Answer”, which apparently won Rumfest 2012. It seemed like a safe bet, and the description made it sound amazing. It read:

King Yellowman's Answer

Blackwell Rum, roasted pineapple with cinnamon sticks, honey, espresso and freshly pressed pear juice. With a garnish not to be messed with.

It was delicious. The garnish turned out to be a scotch pepper, one of the hottest in the world, filled with rum to be added to the drink to taste. It was lit on fire at our table to infuse the flavor into the rum, then I poured about half in my drink. It was fiery, but so delectable. After enjoying the ambiance of The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town for awhile, we finally headed home to do some homework. All in all, a good day.

 

The Store”front”

 

 

 

 

The Hidden Entrance

 

 

Quirky Ambiance Painting

 

King Yellowman's Answer