In a message dated 5/5/2006 6:24:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Done!
As of now I am officially done with school. After two years (4 semesters) and a literally uncountable numbers of hours I have finished graduate school. (At least as far as the masters degree is concerned, but let's not follow that line of thought any further just now...) I feel as if I'm emerging from a long tunnel or surfacing after swimming 10 laps of a pool underwater and finally being able to catch my breath. The last couple of months were particularly intense, since I had two major projects to complete. Yesterday I was able to do my first real photography since February. It was for a job but it still felt great. Since the beginning of the semester I've been following the list sporadically and posting even more sporadically and even less coherently than usual (and yes, this includes writing a private email to Aaron Reynolds and then posting it to the entire damn list: My all-time top PDML boner). On the plus side, I won a couple of awards at the University that might look good on my C.V. - I took first prize in the photography contest and my digital video project "The Last Tree on Easter Island" won first place in the documentary category at the university film festival. (For those coming to GFM I'll have a new 15-minute video of my Grandfather Mountain photography to show there. Soundtrack music from it is on line at http://www.robertstech.com/files/gfm.mp3 if you're interested - it's a 4 meg download.) Now that school's done I can... well, Lisa has a whole list of things, actually. Redecorate the spare bedroom, clean my office for the first time in six months, and many others (and I can possibly post to the PDML without making any more major blunders and making a fool of myself - except for the not making a fool of myself part). Oh yes, and I have to get ready for GFM as well. Fortunately, one of my school projects is going to serve as the basis for my GFM presentation, so that shouldn't be too bad. Hope to have it done this weekend so I can just make some prints to bring. Oh, yes - I also have to look for a job, don't I? Got a line on a possible teaching position at a local arts college. We'll see how that pans out. For now, I'm glad just to be re-joining society! (And the PDML - just barely - falls into the category of "society" <g>) ======== What??? No doctorate?????? Shame, shame!!! Hehehe. I had a friend when he got his masters just wanted to stop. So I know what you mean. School, even graduate school, gets old. Congrats! And congrats on awards! I think you'd make a great art/photography teacher. Good luck. Marnie aka Doe :-)
