I’ve been worried about how untalkative I’ve been on this blog thing lately. One of my fellow students was boasting about how she has been writing in her blog every day since last summer. I wanted to pipe up “I’ve been writing in my blog every day since 2001.” But it’s not true these days. I sorely neglect you, dear friend. And you’ve been such great support for me over the years. I think all my teachers think art school kids have loads of free time on their hands to sit around cafés sketching pictures of strangers and contemplating their art-school navels. I find that what little free time I have, I either want to spend staring into the eyes of the one I love (which I don’t ever do enough of), or spending it in the studio, trying to figure out where the hell my paintings are going. So the blog and the strangers in the cafe don’t get too much love these days. But I have just three months of school left, and then I can try to create some sort of free time in my life. Right now that imaginary future free time is being planned into gym time (you have all summer to fit into that dress), sewing time, and wedding time. So we’ll just have to shoot for, um, I don’t know, early 2009 for some free time? Naw, maybe never. But I do ok with the time I have. Oh! One more happy report. Eight pounds lost so far and just two pounds off schedule.
The dark cloud of illness has finally lifted and I feel happy and full of life again. Just in time to try and catch up with the parts of my life I had to put on the back burner. There are oh, so many back burners these days.