Blech
I've been really tired lately. I don't think I'm coming down with anything (except for my persistent chronic case of grad school), it's more a grad school + daylight savings + grad school + thesis year.
I'm just feeling ridiculously bogged down, and it feels like new responsibilities keep coming out of the woodwork.
I'd thought I'd feel more relaxed after the thirty minute artist talk I had to give Monday, but I just had a meeting today with the new Prof for Women in Israel/Palestine, and we're trying to catch up on ten+ weeks of extant grading this week so we can be a little closer to normal next week. Which totally needs doing, I just wish it wasn't now, when what I really want need* to be doing is locking myself in my studio and working on setup for the committee meeting Monday. Seeing as it's all Monday and stuff.
And Conservation continues to suck more of my time than I'd like, and there's always 110 grading, and the MFA students graduating this year have started having meetings where we discuss show titles and budgets and that just makes it seem real that in five months I put my stuff on the wall and defend it. I just want to hit a pause button on life for long enough to catch my breath. Or at least toggle off some of my other responsibilities for a week so I can get some bloody art done.
I'm hoping there'll be time this weekend, but Cloister does that feel like cutting it close. Right now I have fifteen creatures total, and I want text for at least three of them... the text is being collaged, so it takes a while.
Is it naptime yet?
*what I want is a bathtub and a stack of unread urban fantasy and/or murder mystery paperbacks, or a marathon knitting session.
I'm just feeling ridiculously bogged down, and it feels like new responsibilities keep coming out of the woodwork.
I'd thought I'd feel more relaxed after the thirty minute artist talk I had to give Monday, but I just had a meeting today with the new Prof for Women in Israel/Palestine, and we're trying to catch up on ten+ weeks of extant grading this week so we can be a little closer to normal next week. Which totally needs doing, I just wish it wasn't now, when what I really want need* to be doing is locking myself in my studio and working on setup for the committee meeting Monday. Seeing as it's all Monday and stuff.
And Conservation continues to suck more of my time than I'd like, and there's always 110 grading, and the MFA students graduating this year have started having meetings where we discuss show titles and budgets and that just makes it seem real that in five months I put my stuff on the wall and defend it. I just want to hit a pause button on life for long enough to catch my breath. Or at least toggle off some of my other responsibilities for a week so I can get some bloody art done.
I'm hoping there'll be time this weekend, but Cloister does that feel like cutting it close. Right now I have fifteen creatures total, and I want text for at least three of them... the text is being collaged, so it takes a while.
Is it naptime yet?
*what I want is a bathtub and a stack of unread urban fantasy and/or murder mystery paperbacks, or a marathon knitting session.