My worktable is devolving into chaos and I am simultaneously frightened and exhilarated. 
Sort of like my life.
I have been avoiding – consciously and unconsciously – writing and publishing updates. It requires a certain amount of effort to present a polished professional persona and I guess I just haven’t quite been up to the task for a while.
This morning my phone reminded me once again that I should publish an update and then, instead of ignoring it, I thought, “Yeah, okay, maybe I can do that, but different.”
I’m going to try to just post updates, not necessarily polished and professional, but honest and at least in touch with you all.
So here I am, fighting a cold, furiously creating under deadline and thinking I have no time to be sick. I’m leading a ten hour field trip tomorrow, including about six hours of hiking and photographing, so I’m hunkering down today, trying to rest and eating Zicams like candy, hoping I will have the energy to inspire students tomorrow. At least the weather looks like it should be pretty nice and not raining like it was last year.
I’m actually pretty excited about the show I’m working on. It’s one of two shows that I will have up at the same time because I’m not always good at looking at my own calendar and I just said, “Yeah, that would be great!” About a month ago, it hit me that the field trip class and both shows are all essentially happening at once and it just became do or die at that point. I wasn’t even sure I would get to go to one of my receptions until I got a sub for the final critique session for the field trip class. I’ve never been so tickled to be able to attend my own reception.
If you’d be tickled to be there, too, it’s at the Gallery at 48 Natoma in Folsom on Friday, November 16th, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
And now I have to get back to work, since I’m not done making art for that yet!