Two more weeks

I am quite happy to say that, in two more weeks, the summer of hell will be over. Yesterday, I payed my tuition for fall semester and bought the books I need. Luckily, I only needed to buy two, as the other two that are required were ones I had from previous classes.

I wish I could say that the summer semester had gone well, but to be honest, I've managed to tank all three of the classes I took. I had been taking Art of Film, Art History, and Computer Literacy. Art of Film was entirely online, Art History was an independant study class, conducted mostly through email, and Computer Literacy was "web-enhanced". Halfway through classes, Vera broke and needed to be shipped off to be fixed. So, my mom lent me her laptop to help keep me sane. One of the raccoons startled me one evening while I was outside avoiding the lack of air conditioning, and I dropped it, leaving a huge, oozing crack across the monitor. During this time, I went to spend an evening with the kids, and some hose or something exploded, splattering power steering fluid across the ex's driveway and leaving me without reliable transportation. So, I'll be retaking classes next summer.

The one really good point to the whole summer is that I've finally gotten the studio cleaned out and ready to move in next week. It's not a large space, but it will be enough for me to have a quiet area to leave my work, and enough space to put a bed so that I can sleep in peace. It still needs painted, because the walls are an extremely ugly wood paneling. I'm hoping to paint them white, and on the one wall that has no windows, paint the quote "People in glass houses sink ships". It seems appropriate, considering the building's previous life was as a greenhouse.

I'm not entirely sure when I'll be able to post up pictures of my new space, because it seems that my camera was most likely stolen out of my car. I'm hoping that I'm just not seeing it, and will find it when I move my art supplies out of the car and into the studio, but if not, then I'll have to wait until I can afford a new one to post pics.