As I may have previously mentioned, I have to reapply to have my contract renewed and, the deadline is Friday. Today I spent most of the day working on rewriting one page, Philosophy of Studio Art Practice and, sorting through images of student work to be sent in with my application. Good thing I started having some of them give me digital copies of their photos. I started filling out the online application, which I do not like one bit even though individual text documents can be uploaded. I guess it’s good in a way to remove a certain bit of styling but, it just doesn’t feel right, like there is something missing from the process. As long as I retain my job, that’s all I care about right now.

When students came into my office today asking for their negatives, I told ‘em to line up so I can do it all at once and not get each class mixed up. Did they? No. I told a couple that came late that I warned them two weeks ago to keep everything they need to reprint images because I might get pushed for time but, I wasn’t expecting the university to push a deadline on us (three people) right before finals.

Nothing is easy right now. I had the park exhibition with an unexpected deadline, application with unexpected deadline, and right after finals I have my Philadelphia project deadline to deal with. Have mercy. I do not believe working under pressure is the best way to get work done although, many make that pronouncement.