so it has been forever since i wrote anything in here... so let's update a little.

things are crazy. i really should be getting some sleep, but my mind is racing and i can't make it stop... so maybe writing this will help... then some mind-numbing tv.

my oral defense is coming up in a little over a week... i was really panicked, but thanks to some fellow grads, i'm feeling better. i just need to get on top of things... which i don't feel like i really have been since i got here. i have a bunch of new work, that i doubt will be posted until after my show (which, btw, the reception is april 24th, a friday) after that show goes up, and my committee says "yay, you pass" life will be swell. though i just hope i get to have a show. if i mess up my oral defense, i may not have a show. but let's think positively.

teaching is going well, my students this semester are fun, but a little exhausting. and i'm always really excited to see what they are producing. this group is kind of whiney, but they pull through.

other classes are going fine... i really dig my museum studies class. my teacher seems to like my crazy side-tracked mind. most of the readings are a bit more boring than i thought they would be, so i just try to think of things related, even if only loosely. this week we read about registrars and what they do, and i wrote a blog (which is required for the class) about sandy skogland and how registrars must hate/fear her.

i'm co-curating a photo show on campus... it's a lot of work, but i'm really excited. especially because i hope this builds a little community between the photographers here. there really is a huge lack of that. no one really knows who anyone is. that is one thing i really miss about the Rock... everyone knew everyone. we may not have all liked eachother, but we got along well enough. but i'm also really excited to say that i helped curate a show. how cool is that? like, oh my god! (valley girl doesn't work as well when typed)

also, this has nothing to do with art, but... my sister is pregnant... i'm so excited to be an aunt! that child is going to be spoiled rotten by me and my mom. but due date is in october.

but i guess that is all the main points of my sad, sorry life... hope things are a little less nuts for everyone else!