Congratulations Mark. Now go out & enjoy the day!
Kenneth Waller
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From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Done!
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>)
