Giving into my nerdy roots
So I finally gave into my nerdy roots:
This is me as my Path to Power Character with mugs I made for the Mud team’s Mug exchange. It was a good day yesterday. 
The photo was taken by my friend, Joe Garber.
Catching up
Ok, so I’ve spent the past two weeks doing production pottery. Holy crap there’s a lot of throwing. I went from doing 12 pots a week to 40 a week. I’m actually quite proud of that. However, between the work and the dog I’m having diffiiculty getting time to work on my own stuff. So tomorrow Banafsh is going into Doggy Day Care. He’ll love and he’ll be nice and floppy at night. We hope.
Anyhow, I’m getting a lot of technical skill out of this, which is good. I just want to work my schedule out better so that I have a couple hours a day to sit peacefully and poke holes. Mostly, it involves getting out of the house earlier, which means that I have to ween the dog off long mornings with someone in the house. He’s a cuddle-bug in the morning, and its very hard to say no to such a cute face, esp. when you have a good book, pottery magazine, or sketch pad to work on while he sleeps on your legs.
Busy month
Hey all. Sorry I lost track of days and not keeping up the posts.
Last month I put in a bid on a house, but failed to get it. 
So we’re still looking.
Also, my bad teenage habit of wearing contacts for a month at a time without taking them out (dropped at some point during college) finally caught up to me. Let me tell you, ulcers on your eye ball HURT like the dickens. It lead me to walk around looking like an inebriated pirate (one eye covered and bouncing off the walls I couldn’t see because it hurt to have the other eye open as well.) Trimming with one eye was a disaster. Depth perception plays a greater roll in that action much more than I realized.
Lastly, I’ve been hired by Pigeon Toe Ceramics as the primary studio assistant. *squee* A real job in pottery! So I’ve been working my ass off, but not on my own stuff. I do have time to do my own work still, just a lot less than I use to have. But damn, I got a pottery job. 
I’m pretty happy with that.
