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February 16, 2007
a very expensive line on my curriculum vitae
This morning's task was to frame these two prints and ship them off to Peoria Illinois for the Bradley International print and drawing exhibition. To ship them cost me a fortune, because the work needs to be there by Thursday the 22nd, and the very reasonable USPS rate for 2-3 day delivery can't be guaranteed because Monday is some kind of holiday (the stupid kind, a holiday I've never heard of that totally inconveniences me and makes me have to pay an extra 30-plus dollars to ship my artwork, but does not give me a day off from teaching). And also because "they've got some bad weather up there right now". Argh. So the snow-o-phobes got me again.
Whatever. This erases the last stress of a very stress-filled week. This week I thought I was going to have to cancel my registration for a conference (due to not being able to afford to go), I thought I was going to bounce a bunch of cheques and run my beloved into the ground with the weight of keeping up with my debt, I thought I was going to make enemies of pretty much everyone I have to work with for the next year and a half, I thought I was going to fail to get the prints framed and sent off in time for the show, and I thought I was going to have to pound a pencil through my eye in order to not pass out while teaching my class with a migraine. But none of those things happened, and tomorrow I'm taking the day off from studio, from grad school, from my colleagues and from worrying about anything. I'm going to make some bread, put up a batch of pickled eggplant into jars, go out to the Grit for lunch with a couple of friends, and have a spinning lesson on the Lendrum wheel that Darilee so generously loaned me. Never mind now that the spinning is for studio work (and Sandy and Mouse are coming up to my studio to play on the wheel, rather than doing it at the house); this is as close to a day off as I'm likely to get, and I'm bloody well going to enjoy it.
Posted by jodi at February 16, 2007 10:26 PM | categories: art stuff : assholes
Comments
Jodi, Jodi! So many American holidays...new here, too. It's been a year and a half since my family and I moved here from Ontario, often vey odd how different we are from them, eh?
You will be OK. Debt is relative. You've got thrift store genes, a creative mind, and surely, if you were going to put something through your eye, it would be a DPN.
Chris in AZ
Posted by: chris at February 16, 2007 11:18 PM
they are beautiful!
it is a BS american holiday for federal workers and bankers....
Posted by: mama-e at February 17, 2007 12:20 AM
Gorgeous prints!
Posted by: Cara at February 17, 2007 07:47 AM
Ah, your comment on my recent entry makes total sense now. :)
I'm trying to think of some witty and awesome "Rah! Rah!" thing to say, but coming up blank... I hope you had a great day off, anyways. :)
I'm going to have to tell Zak about that pencil-in-the-eye migraine remedy, I hadn't heard of that one before.
Also, I am so jealous of your mah-jongg set from the last entry, I... I... okay, drawing a blank again. If I waited til I was witty to leave a comment, I'd never comment at all. I'm jealous, anyways.
Posted by: Mandy at February 17, 2007 09:35 AM
The prints are stunning. At least in England they have the good sense to not be pretentious and just call one Monday a month (or something) "Bank Holiday" rather than all these ridiculous things that we have....that of course many of us don't have. My husband: Federal courts are closed, but state courts are open. Me: There's no such thing as a holiday for a self-employed person. College students: There's school. High School Teachers: Never work anyway. (heehee. My sister is a high school teacher and it just BUGS ME all the time she gets off for lame-ass reasons. Now I'll be attacked by all the high school teachers who read your blog.)
Posted by: Norma at February 17, 2007 09:56 AM
Yeah, this monday in Canada is something called "Heritage Day". The only people who get that day off are government and bank workers. Total BS kind of holiday.
Posted by: Carol at February 17, 2007 11:32 AM
Damn right it's time for you to have a day off to enjoy. Congratulations on facing down the myriad irritants.
Of course you know I have to ask what kind of bread you're going to make. :)
Posted by: Bakerina at February 17, 2007 12:49 PM
and don't they look so lovely framed! well worth the effort but maybe not the postage cost :)
Posted by: kylie at February 17, 2007 04:51 PM
Spending the extra dough for shipping sucks, but they look like a million bucks!
Does that pencil thing work? I must try that.
Posted by: bonnie at February 17, 2007 05:45 PM
Oohhhh, can I get the next batch you mail out sent to my living room? Pretty please?
Posted by: Amanda at February 17, 2007 07:59 PM
the prints are gorgeous. gorgeous.
Posted by: juno at February 21, 2007 12:06 AM