HOT DIGGITY DAMN!!!
HELL HAS FROZEN OVER! I've just recieved word that all of my professors have signed off on my Thesis. After all the blood, sweat, tears, saliva, and sanity, the journey towards getting a Masters is nearly complete! Now I just have to turn it in to the library and department and call it a day! Seeing it all printed and bound in all its half an inch thick glory has been extremely surreal.
I am so happy I nearly broke down in tears in the car. I've NEVER been happy enough to cry before. It was a very strange experience. Can this really, truly be the end of so much hard work? I've been so used to the thought of never being free from school that it's a hard thing to grasp not having that hatchet hovering over my head.
Am I REALLY graduated or is this just a glitch in the Matrix? What am I going to do with my time now?? Can I REALLY work on my own thing now??? OMG FREEEEEDOOOM *Braveheart yell*
I've been talking with my father about a few options on how to share this thesis with others and he's been urging me to publish it as a book. Do any of you know about academic publishing? I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to read an academic paper for fun... I am thinking perhaps, once I'm not sick of looking at it, I'm going to rewrite my thesis, strip out the academic bullshit tone, and write it with a tone geared towards artists. There are so few books on e-marketing for the arts specifically that I think I could add something rather than contribute to the growing pile of "how to" books.
Buut that will wait till I've tested out a few more methods and actually gotten to the point where I have succeeded as an artist and feel more qualified to publish such a book. It's one thing to say the market is glittering with opportunities when you've not really pursued them yourself and a whole other thing to say "yes I HAVE succeeded as an artist with these strategies and here is how they work".
Or perhaps I'm just being too hard on myself? Would you buy a book on e-marketing if the author was an emerging artist and the book covered various strategies and the strategies of already established artists?
*wanders off to ponder and SQUEE*
I am so happy I nearly broke down in tears in the car. I've NEVER been happy enough to cry before. It was a very strange experience. Can this really, truly be the end of so much hard work? I've been so used to the thought of never being free from school that it's a hard thing to grasp not having that hatchet hovering over my head.
Am I REALLY graduated or is this just a glitch in the Matrix? What am I going to do with my time now?? Can I REALLY work on my own thing now??? OMG FREEEEEDOOOM *Braveheart yell*
I've been talking with my father about a few options on how to share this thesis with others and he's been urging me to publish it as a book. Do any of you know about academic publishing? I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to read an academic paper for fun... I am thinking perhaps, once I'm not sick of looking at it, I'm going to rewrite my thesis, strip out the academic bullshit tone, and write it with a tone geared towards artists. There are so few books on e-marketing for the arts specifically that I think I could add something rather than contribute to the growing pile of "how to" books.
Buut that will wait till I've tested out a few more methods and actually gotten to the point where I have succeeded as an artist and feel more qualified to publish such a book. It's one thing to say the market is glittering with opportunities when you've not really pursued them yourself and a whole other thing to say "yes I HAVE succeeded as an artist with these strategies and here is how they work".
Or perhaps I'm just being too hard on myself? Would you buy a book on e-marketing if the author was an emerging artist and the book covered various strategies and the strategies of already established artists?
*wanders off to ponder and SQUEE*