It has been a challenging last three weeks, trying to focus all my non-day job energies (which sadly do NOT come from a bottomless well) into doing businessy things for my SBDC guided self-study, wherein I teach myself a DIY business degree of sorts. Real business people will be offended no doubt that I compare my rather painful learning curve to their years of study, but considering I'm starting from Reverse to 60 mph, not just 0-60, I'm going to call it whatever I need to to make myself feel good that I'm really learning necessary things.
If you had told me as a teen I would be doing financial projections one day, I'd be sobbing into my Wheat Chex about what will happen to my soul as a grown-up. Because although I still don't feel mature, I guess doing this "taking my art seriously as a business" thing means I've decided to grow up. Boo.
But the good news is, once I get the grown up parts of my day over with, (once I'm really and truly doing art as my job,) I get to be totally un-grown up for vast spans of time, too! The hard part is that right now, there is WAAAAY too much grown up and not nearly enough silliness.
And it is still raining. I still prefer the crushing depression of the clouds to the shivery rage of the great white north, but it does not make it much easier. The good news is, the rain is warming up and we see glorious pockets of sunshine many days now!
Do we ever not obsess about the weather? I guess in Hawaii, where it is almost always perfect, you obsess about other things.
In exciting, less grown-up feeling news, I meet with the owner of a neato restaurant next week to see if he would like to hang some paintings of yours truly up as a show! Woo hoo! My first real Portland show! I guess it is official - the years-long mild depression from the earth-shattering move across country during the Great Recession is over! Now all I need to contend with is the normal amount of cloud moroseness. I seem to be handling that.
And I am looking forward to this aspect of getting a handle on my business model soon: I want to see Vermont again this year. It's not "home" any more, but it is "the homeland." Makes sense to me. September seems cheapest - now I just have to figure out if it will become a business trip or just a social call. Order up some extra humidity for me!
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