This Semester's Work Part Four

This is where everything both fell apart and came together. I knew I was behind in my work. I had fallen behind due to extreme stress, busyness with my nearly full time job and also with my home life. I began thinking more about my future plans like where I would work after school, whether I wanted to stay working at Teavana and move up through the ranks and use that as my money making job and make art on the side,  planning my graduation trip, planning my wedding and figuring out what I needed to do to move out of my parents house. These are all important things but not nearly as important as I was making it. I laid my work aside and fell behind because I was more worried about what I needed to do after graduation and less about the things that would ultimately get me to graduation. This all changed when I got an email from Frank Herrman, who was concerned that I was not making enough work for advanced painting and reminding me the there was only 27 days until Thanksgiving Break and then when we came back from break, that is DAAP Hell Week and exam week followed that. With the prospect of DAAPworks looming, I, first spent several minutes crying because I was mad at myself for doing this, then I got to work. This reality check was just the kick in the pants that I needed. I went home that night and began painting one of my most successful pieces that I have made all year.