Well done, Mark! Rick
--- Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Done! > > As of now I am officially done with school. After > two years (4 > semesters) and a literally uncountable numbers of > hours I have > finished graduate school. (At least as far as the > masters degree is > concerned, but let's not follow that line of thought > any further just > now...) > > I feel as if I'm emerging from a long tunnel or > surfacing after > swimming 10 laps of a pool underwater and finally > being able to catch > my breath. > > The last couple of months were particularly intense, > since I had two > major projects to complete. Yesterday I was able to > do my first real > photography since February. It was for a job but it > still felt great. > Since the beginning of the semester I've been > following the list > sporadically and posting even more sporadically and > even less > coherently than usual (and yes, this includes > writing a private email > to Aaron Reynolds and then posting it to the entire > damn list: My > all-time top PDML boner). On the plus side, I won a > couple of awards > at the University that might look good on my C.V. - > I took first prize > in the photography contest and my digital video > project "The Last Tree > on Easter Island" won first place in the documentary > category at the > university film festival. (For those coming to GFM > I'll have a new > 15-minute video of my Grandfather Mountain > photography to show there. > Soundtrack music from it is on line at > http://www.robertstech.com/files/gfm.mp3 if you're > interested - it's a > 4 meg download.) > > Now that school's done I can... well, Lisa has a > whole list of things, > actually. Redecorate the spare bedroom, clean my > office for the first > time in six months, and many others (and I can > possibly post to the > PDML without making any more major blunders and > making a fool of > myself - except for the not making a fool of myself > part). Oh yes, and > I have to get ready for GFM as well. Fortunately, > one of my school > projects is going to serve as the basis for my GFM > presentation, so > that shouldn't be too bad. Hope to have it done this > weekend so I can > just make some prints to bring. > > Oh, yes - I also have to look for a job, don't I? > Got a line on a > possible teaching position at a local arts college. > We'll see how that > pans out. > > For now, I'm glad just to be re-joining society! > (And the PDML - just > barely - falls into the category of "society" <g>) > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
