Today’s grateful list (and yesterday’s):
THE SEMESTER IS ALMOST OVER.
Love,
black sheeped
September
September 13, 2010 — swampdiamondsHey, so, we’re moved and Jut is teaching at his new school and I’m all immersed in grad school, and the dogs like the new house, and I need to be reading some art history stuff right now about anti-colonialism and primitivism.
There are still a lot of boxes in the basement that are waiting to be unpacked, and I need to brush Cab, and the dishes haven’t been completely caught up since we moved. Most of our clothing is still wrinkled from being packed, I have not put one thing on one wall yet, the back door is accessible only after the navigation of a treacherous obstacle course consisting mostly of cardboard that needs to be recycled, and I’ve spent the last few weekends painting every room on the main floor of the house (almost done) (there was so much peach that needed covered) (seriously, the exact color of the peach Crayola crayon, or silly putty).
The cats have been bravely coping with all the changes by acting like they have lived here since the dawn of time:
The monarchs are migrating and a great horned owl lives somewhere near our back yard.
I like grad school. My first little critique was positive, I survived my first quiz, I’m not getting lost on campus anymore (though I still carry a map in my bag, and have given dismally confused instructions to the poor people who have asked ME for directions), and I haven’t gotten a parking ticket. I have about twenty books checked out from the library, and as a grad student, I get to keep them until MAY. I’m absorbing the work of new artists, and I’m trying some new things in my drawings.
I feel old on campus, especially when a vacantly texting student walks right into me. I might have to break down and get some sort of coffee making device.
But I feel happy about what I’m doing.
That primitivism article isn’t going to read itself, and I need to work on a painting.
Love,
black sheeped
