workaday

today was a work day. a geniuine one in that i felt i made lots of calls, got stuff together, and was generally incredibly responsible. some things:

--mornign: talked to friend Brendan and caught up on his artwork projects and goings-ons. I miss brendan.

--morning until 1pm: emailed and called lots of people regarding the special lecture series I'm organizing for the California College of the Arts in conjuntion with the graduate class I'm teaching called "Material Worlds." The lecture series is called "Object Agents: Contemporary Sculpture and the Social Life of Objects" and focuses on object makers dealing with catalytic objects. Sounds sort of obscure but will post more on later. Am totally excited about it tho--quite a few out of town artists i'm getting to come in and they're all awesome.

--1pm: went to my studio, grabbed some shelving brackets that i forgot to bring to mills college in oakland for the art show opening next week, then hi-tailed it out there to install the last bit of the work. took about an hour total. saw the catalog for the exhibition and it looks totally awesome. was very happy. talked to show's curator and all was well. left.

--met artist friend anna at the xerox place by the CCA Oakland campus and we traded different articles for each of our syllabi. Two heads are better than one! made lots of xeroxes. felt ultra responsible and brainiac-like.

--went to the CCA San Francisco campus to check in with department managers and talk to some grad students about the class i'm teaching that starts next week. checked email numerous times in lobby and made calls.

--howled and sang really loudly to TV On the Radio in my car as I drove home across the Bay Bridge to a gorgeous sunset, taking bunches of cameraphone photos in the process and probably endangering my safety in the process as I was driving.

--stopped by Pacific Super (Asian supermarket close to my house) and bought a giant bottle of Nigori Sake (unfiltered, milky sake) to be chilled in fridge for later.

--went home and worked on a flyer PDF file for the first artist lecture in the "Object Agents" series. felt pretty good about the design and graphical quality.

--talked to one of my best friends Rebecca for hour-and-a-half on phone while sipping previously chilled Nigori and caught up on all the gossip and stuff going on in her world.

--watch Letterman on TV. gosh, how I like Dave. makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

whew!

tomorrow night rebecca and i are planning to go to 12 Galaxies for a few bands (Eats Tapes, Fuckwolf, etc.) and merriment. YES. it sounds like a friday to me!