8 Nov 07

Hmm, no really good stories this time, just updates from the past several days. This hasn't exactly been the best week, but I do have to take the bad with the good.

Okay, I do have one amusing story. We were told that we can take our linens to be changed on the first and second, and the 15th and 16th of each month. Considering Nov. 1 and 2 were holdays I figured that since the dorm offices were closed that the exchange days would just roll to the next two business days. So I fold my sheets and towels neatly, hang out at the dorm until 9am (I normally leave by 8 am) go to the office, try in my best Croatian to ask for new linens. The guy shakes his head an me and mutters God only knows what in Croatian. Thoroughly irrated at this excahnge student he pulls me over to a calander and points out the days that I can exchange. I apologized profusely, and then he finally gave me new ones. Again, my logic has been proven faulty. I did go back to the dorm and warn my colleagues to wait until the 15th.

So after this little exchange (what a way to start the day, let alone a Monday) I get to the studio and apparently the work on the room wasn't finished and the desks were pushed back in to the center of the room. Not really a big deal, we just had to make little paths for people to get to their respective areas. I'm not sure if the work has been completed but my studio mates pushed their stuff back to their spaces and I followed suit.

I am pleased that I should have be installing one of my site-specific pieces next week, as long as the weather cooporates. Also, my the formalities of my sound-based piece are being worked out, so that piece should go into editing and post production within the next two weeks. It's good to have some of these pieces coming to a close, I\m starting to feel like I have been doing work! I did get a piece finished in time to submit for a small sculpture competition, no word on the results yet.

I talked with Iva this week, she told me that her teammates have found hockey equipment for me and skates. So, I shall go to my first practice on Saturday evening! I am really looking forward to this, I haven't played for some time so we'll see how it goes. I think the IUP contingent said they will come and be the rowdy section during the games, haha!

New photos are being uploaded to Flickr every few days. Gotta get back to my studio, I think a vase might be ready to be popped from the mold.

--AM