We’re Moving! – Why are you not surprised?
“Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle “Moving” blog posts have become quite a familiar topic on our site. Blake and I started out in disparate places, he in Iowa (the blue) and I in Georgia (the pink.) All of the orange markers in […]
Exploring the Unknown: Two Lovely Articles on Art Learning and Practice
I came upon links to two art articles on Facebook over the past week or so, posted upon the pages of Tim Dooley and Brian Hitselberger (scroll to the end for the links to the articles.) I kept them open in tabs all last week, awaiting a free moment of concentration to sit down and […]
Keep the Sunscreen Packed: I’m Moving to Mississippi
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208317487428128910857.0004d9643d4e2b3c1976c&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=30.467614,-89.055176&spn=3.31395,4.669189&z=7&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Well, I’m finally unpacking my suitcase that I packed to move to the United Arab Emirates earlier this year. As y’all know, that particular prospect didn’t work out. However, I’m happy to say that instead of merely unpacking said suitcase (a task which I put off finishing for nearly 5 months,) I can […]
The Luckiest Unlucky Girl in the World
Well, I’m not going overseas afterall. Everything fell through, and I don’t know why. So, I’m just a girl in Ohio, married to a guy who works at BGSU. I had some other opportunities, which I regretfully denied based on my signing a contract for my job overseas, and which now are most likely unavailable […]
Hot Cheetos and Toffees: The Things Students Say
Yes, at times it can be a thankless, 20-hour a day job where you may want to pull your hair out, snap pencils in half and make your syllabus billboard-sized and in all bold, italicized type. But we love it, anyway. Just kidding… but sometimes it feels that way Sometimes you have students that just […]
Part-Part Time Job
I got this Vandercook 2 up and running today! All it took was a bit of SAE 30 in the “grease nipples” (or so I like to call them) and some rust removal with mineral spirits. Putz is coming in the mail soon. I lucked into working with a graphic design professor at BGSU who […]
More about Bowling Green, and a white-knuckle roadtrip
So, folks: as promised here’s the skinny on the new gig and our odyssey over the week. I’ve been in the interview process for the last few weeks. Because the job begins in January, interviews had to be conducted via Skype, without the usual on-site second interview. As a result, I still haven’t been up […]
We’re moving! (Again)
This will be brief for now. I’ll come back tomorrow and put together a more involved, detail rich post. Here’s the deal, gang… I found out at about 7:30 yesterday morning that I will be the new Visiting Assistant Professor of printmaking at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. After 5 ego-numbing years […]