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October 08, 2006
thank you
I should be less ungrateful. I don't have to live on the street. I am healthy, as are most of the people I care about. I have found someone who loves me enough to encourage me to leave him and go 1200 km away in order to get a better education than I could get at home. My time here is almost half over. I finally feel like I'm good enough to be in grad school, and am making work I'm happy with for the first time in a long time. This afternoon I will phone my family, and then maybe I won't feel so alone, for a while.
And, at least I'm not completely blind without my glasses, which just now, as I typed, leapt off my face in two pieces that ran off in opposite directions, citing irreconcilable differences. That loose arm has already been spotted making the rounds of the singles bars; the lenses are inconsolable.
Posted by jodi at October 8, 2006 03:12 PM | categories: self-absorbtion
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It never ceases to amaze me how some of the brightest, most talented, hardest-working people I know worry, even for a second, that they're not good enough for grad school. Hon, if you're not good enough for grad school, then I might as well just hang it up and go become a phone sanitizer or something.
Happy Thanksgiving once again, to you, your family and that superlative fella of yours. And while it's a shame that those nifty glasses are broken, at least you managed to take a clean, well-lit shot of the remains. ;)
Posted by: Bakerina at October 8, 2006 06:36 PM
How in the heck did THAT happen? I've gotten to the point where I could not really function without my glasses. Never thought I'd see the day. And if what happened to yours happened to mine -- well, aside from the fact I have contacts that I could fall back on, I don't even know how I'd get myself to the glasses store!
Posted by: Norma at October 8, 2006 06:47 PM
Well, you could always hold them up like opera glasses. That would rock.
Kind of.
Posted by: NWJR at October 8, 2006 06:54 PM
Fix 'em with duct tape, nerd STYLE!
Posted by: Sherry W at October 8, 2006 07:44 PM
Although holding them up like opera glasses would make it a little difficult to print. :)
Also, I just wanted you to know that while I always dreamed of going back to art school to study printmaking, it was finding your website and seeing all your amazing work that really kicked me into gear -- thank you so much for that. :)
Posted by: crumpet at October 8, 2006 11:20 PM
So maybe next year at this time I too will feel like I'm smart enough for this zany grad-school thing... I give thanks for your inspiration!
Posted by: alison at October 8, 2006 11:43 PM
Nooo!! I once broke a pair of glasses in the middle of a class. I swear they just fell apart. I hate when that happens.
Posted by: jenn at October 9, 2006 09:39 AM
You can feel like you're good enough for grad school? That's very encouraging. I hope I feel like that one day.
Having seen your work on this blog, however, I can't believe ~you've~ ever felt that you weren't good enough.
Posted by: himbly at October 9, 2006 10:34 AM