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Lordy, you know you have a problem when you look around you and realize that you have neglected too many things and have forgotten to write people back emails, answer phone calls, and just generally have become sort of out of it. I'm not sure what happened this month! And here it is--midnight on Monday--and I'm trying to catch up on old emails and am surrounded with a pile of papers and *crap* lying all around my little office room. Too many things going on! Too many things to juggle and it seems I'm not quite finishing up everything to my liking ;p

Ugh, yes, this is a complaint rant thingie, I guess. I thought getting out of school in May would mean freeing up all this time to do the things I didn't have time for before, but it seems like my days are like black hole time-sucks...I mean, where does it all go? I've been working in my studio literally EVERY DAY on deadline-related artwork. Oh, except for yesterday. Yesterday I spent the entire day going through my 2004 tax year receipts and I *still* had to file an extra extension to file LAST YEAR'S taxes because I couldn't finish in time...When does it end?

On the good news front, it looks like I've been hired to teach a Sculpture class this fall at the California College of the Arts (CCA, formerly CCAC), which is fabulous because it can be hard getting college teaching gigs right out of grad school! Technically, it's the rival school to my alma mater, the San Francisco Art Institute, but these days, it's had a really good upswing in great faculty and lots of funding. My class will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-7pm and I'm looking forward to writing up a syllabus and just generally immersing the students in discussions on contemporary art and art practices, as well as teaching studio skills. My skillset, apart from sewing, runs the gamut from woodshop, casting, and lots of "alternative processes" (basically, whatever it takes to make something happen!). I never learned how to weld, however...Anyhow, I'm fast realizing that the semester starts the first week of September and I have to go through new faculty orientations and figure out a project schedule, fieldtrips, etc. Eegads, more timesuck!

OK, serenity now. Serenity now.