I forgot to congratulate you Mark. I've been there, it feels great, but it also leaves you with an "empty" feeling.
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 5. mai 2006 15:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Done! > > 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>) >
