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Saturday, April 23, 2005

 
11:39 PM: vacations [#] [0]

michael left this morning w/ bryan & steve to visit reza in sacramento. i think this is the first road trip he's taken since i lived in colorado and we went to visit neal copperman in new mexico. i'm watching arwen again.

so while michael's vacation is just beginning, mine is ending: i start working for psu again on monday and don't stop till the end of june. i'm amazed to find that even a full week off a part-time job has been very refreshing. i've hit a glorious plateau past the "things-that-need-to-be-done-now" stage, and now i'm looking at all the "getting things done" lists that have been faithfully waiting for me during the period where i was just shuffling the top 5 "have to do"s each day. my physical inbox is clear and my email essentially is, too. it feels almost... peaceful, though sven is still struggling with his own piles and things to do, and i can't help feeling affected by them, too.

unlike last year it doesn't look like i'll have much of a summer vacation: the mac artist's way class is full and they've already asked me to teach one for fall. i'm hoping to convince them for a longer course, since i've discovered even the 8-week unitarian course is too short for the participants. so even though my next milestone is july 1 (when this psu contract ends), it looks like i need to start thinking of september and how to fit in two studio artist's way classes w/ the mac classes & with some really great ideas i had about extending artist's way offerings even more.

all these artist's way options may keep me from doing psu work in the fall, if i am asked to do so, but because of their fiscal workings, i don't imagine the request occuring until at least november, and that's if they may want me. the angel feedback and the instructional design checklist are the only projects in the last 6 months that actually have had closure and deliverables; hive has become uncertain and unreal, like a reflection in a window. so many of my next steps are dependant on other people and hive is not high on their priority lists, and i don't have the "authority" to talk to anyone directly. so i fear walking out of here in june without making hive any more functional than it was when i began working on it in november and how that will affect my chances of being hired by psu again.

and now or something cheerier: happy 24-hour comics day! i got so inspired by it this morning that i read the book from last year and have resolved to host one next year at the studio. you heard it here first! and you know who i'm inviting. yes, you!