Summer's almost over (at last)
I always think it's crazy that I so look forward to summer every year just to want it all to be over by this point. The last show is open (with lots of positive feedback), it strikes on Sunday, we clean up the old paint shoppe and by a week from tomorrow it's all done and I drive back to Illinois. This has been a good year for me. We have painted 3 shows, seriously renovated one, and just did touch ups on the third. I got to design a couple of added pieces for the second show and designed the Festival of Broadway set. (It's a preview show for next season done at the end of every summer.) So I am beginning to get some design opportunities here, which I have been working toward for a while. They have both gone very well and I hope this is opening opportunities for me to design here in the future.
Other than that, I am just waiting out the end of the summer so that I can get back to Illinois and move and start school again. One year left--really like 10 months now. It seems like so long, but I know that it will fly by. Then for the first time in a long time, I am part of the working world again. I think it will take me some serious time before I am ready to get back into academia after all the crap I have dealt with in the last 3 years or so. I am done with red tape and departmental politics. I know that politics are inevitable, but I feel like they are just out of line where I am now. Soon enough I will be looking for employment and I am fairly excited by the prospect.
I've successfully quit biting my nails. This is good news for more than one reason. Firstly, my hands look WAY better. Secondly, since I have bitten my nails for most of my life and have been able to quit, this means that I can get myself to stop smoking too, right? I just have to do what I did with the nails. Give myself time (I started in January and just now think I may have actually quit), realize that backtracking will happen, and know that I am stubborn as hell.
Other than that, I am just waiting out the end of the summer so that I can get back to Illinois and move and start school again. One year left--really like 10 months now. It seems like so long, but I know that it will fly by. Then for the first time in a long time, I am part of the working world again. I think it will take me some serious time before I am ready to get back into academia after all the crap I have dealt with in the last 3 years or so. I am done with red tape and departmental politics. I know that politics are inevitable, but I feel like they are just out of line where I am now. Soon enough I will be looking for employment and I am fairly excited by the prospect.
I've successfully quit biting my nails. This is good news for more than one reason. Firstly, my hands look WAY better. Secondly, since I have bitten my nails for most of my life and have been able to quit, this means that I can get myself to stop smoking too, right? I just have to do what I did with the nails. Give myself time (I started in January and just now think I may have actually quit), realize that backtracking will happen, and know that I am stubborn as hell.