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Weekend was a mixed bag. I caught a short-duration but hideous stomach bug, so Saturday had to be written off as a total loss. That was probably my first time being both seriously ill and completely alone- husband, and most of my friends in the area were at a LARP- and I've come to appreciate the niceties of having someone around to at least make a run to the store for rice cakes and gatorade when you're not competent to drive.
Sunday and Monday were rather better. I spent most of both days tucked away in the studio, scaling up and then beginning to paint the first half of a big diptych that's eventually going to hang above the desk in there. Painting's still unfamiliar and a little scary to me compared to pencil/pen/marker-type media, but I feel like I'm gaining some skill at it. In general, I've been feeling better about/more fluent with creative things and more willing to take risks there since the end of last month. It's as if, in getting the grad school application process done, I did the freakiest thing I could think of (which sounded ridiculous at the time, and still does, but was true on some level or other) so, with that done, I'm free to do other things that I'd been avoiding. One of my worst habits is that I tend to avoid undertaking projects that I don't think I can do perfectly or near-perfectly in the first few tries.
Sunday and Monday were rather better. I spent most of both days tucked away in the studio, scaling up and then beginning to paint the first half of a big diptych that's eventually going to hang above the desk in there. Painting's still unfamiliar and a little scary to me compared to pencil/pen/marker-type media, but I feel like I'm gaining some skill at it. In general, I've been feeling better about/more fluent with creative things and more willing to take risks there since the end of last month. It's as if, in getting the grad school application process done, I did the freakiest thing I could think of (which sounded ridiculous at the time, and still does, but was true on some level or other) so, with that done, I'm free to do other things that I'd been avoiding. One of my worst habits is that I tend to avoid undertaking projects that I don't think I can do perfectly or near-perfectly in the first few tries.