Nor are we in Madison. I thank all of you family members and friends who have not yet sent me any hate mail for not updating the site since we moved. I’m catching up, though slowly.

So now we are in sunny North Carolina! It’s been about three weeks, and boy have those weeks been action-packed! It started with the actual move: we spent a couple nights on the floor with our camping pads before our truck arrived with all our things. Many thanks to my two brothers who suffered on the floor with us for a couple nights– it got so we were going into town or jumping in the pool just so we wouldn’t have to be on the floor anymore. It wasn’t really all that bad in retrospect, considering recent news events.

Once we had our stuff, we only had a short time to start unpacking before I needed to get on campus and start orienting myself to the life of a graduate student. There are ten incoming MFAs this year, and four second-year grad students in the program. It is a great bunch of people with pretty diverse backgrounds. In fact, the UNC and Duke campuses are the most racially and ethnically diverse campuses I have been on since high school. Anyway, I am looking forward to soaking up all the different perspectives.

This semester is looking great, so far. I have three credits of seminar for all the studio art majors, 10 credits of just plain studio time (make stuff!), and my last three credits come from an animation course over on Duke’s campus. I’m having fun already, and once I actually start producing work (rather than just generating ideas, like I have been so far), the fun just won’t stop. I’m positively giddy!

Okay, and I am really overwhelmed. It’s hard to be a student again. I’ve been asking for more time for a long time, and now I finally have it. It’s daunting– I’m scared to mess it up! But I suppose the only way to mess it up is to not do anything. So I am plugging along.

I have a commission to work on, my animation class is keeping me drawing a lot, and my plans for “play time” in the studio are finally gelling into executable ideas. This is going to be a good time.

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