Four Weeks

Tonight I began to chant "four weeks" over and over again in my head.

This is the method I use to hold back the stress (panic attacks) related to finishing grad school (the thesis paper, finishing everything for the big show, and particularly the part about finding a "real" job). "Four weeks" from today (Sunday) is graduation day!

I can’t believe it’s almost over. It seems like only months ago that I was in my first semester wondering what I got myself into, struggling with the costs, getting to know my class mates, and terrified of every critique. And now I miss the consistency of the seminar, the social interaction with my friends, and the feeling of being driven by a critique. (OK it still seems expensive)

I wonder what life would have been without grad school? Who would I be without this experience? Probably, I'd be working for a big corporation in the burbs, married, with children on the way, living in the anonymity of a suburban Mc Mansion... like most of my high school friends. Not that it would be a bad life, but I feel like I always saw the world different and was not meant for an ordinary life.

Future Events of My Extra Ordinary Life:

MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening - UC Raw space - May 16

Graduation Ceremony - UIC Pavilion - 3pm May 18

Trip to NYC - Drop me a line if you want to meet up - May 27- June 3

Here is a teaser for my rehabbed web site that should be finished in early May