Day before the filming
As my nails with the pearly peach polish dry from their tacky state, I type this blog entry. Why, you ask? For the show, as I have no time to get a real manicure. How do you type with tacky fingernails, you ask? Very carefully, I say!
This has been an utterly hectic time. Pressure after pressure has mounted upon me. Last week, it was writing some thirty pages of progress reports for my middle school students. Then I had a brief respite at a wonderful retreat over the weekend. This was followed by two days off work spent preparing the house for the TV taping, as well as catching up on life in general.
Wednesday and yesterday were flat-out working on the school yearbook, which had to be at the printers this morning. This was, of course, at the same time as I had to teach year-end classes, do more work on progress reports (still not finished), and meet with the producers of the show in the afternoon yesterday! To finish the yearbook, I worked at my co-teacher's house with her until 2 AM. It was a massive amount of work. So I ended up getting about 3.5 hours of sleep.
Then today, more work had to be done on the yearbook. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my class is performing a play on Monday, no small feat! And one scene of the play was written by a student and sent to me Tuesday night, revised by me Wednesday, revised more by him that night, and given final revisions Thursday for the first rehearsal yesterday and the second (& last) one today. Now, after spending about an hour reading emails, I still have about 600 unread messages left.
So... lampwork? What lampwork? I did some torching Tuesday evening because I had to for the show. I blew up the stuck beads, cringing in panic that the hot sharp pieces would fly at me. I got lucky, though, and am starting to learn to control the shattering. I also made two test beads, one on a mandrel that was double-dipped in the release that was too thin, and the other on a mandrel dipped in my original bead release. Both of them came off like a dream. Nice beads, too. It would be a nightmare to have them get stuck while taping for the show! Oh, and I ordered a kiln. It should come while I'm in Israel, hopefully.
My nails seem drier now. They turned out pretty! Hopefully they will be nice enough on the show, and they won't chip, especially when making the chainmaille.
Besides setting up a display of my jewelry, the most important thing I have left to do tonight is to make a lampwork bead like the one to be demonstrated tomorrow. On less than four hours of sleep, I'm not looking forward to it... it's all I can do to stay awake. Wish me luck!
If they let me, I'll post photos of the taping tomorrow.
This has been an utterly hectic time. Pressure after pressure has mounted upon me. Last week, it was writing some thirty pages of progress reports for my middle school students. Then I had a brief respite at a wonderful retreat over the weekend. This was followed by two days off work spent preparing the house for the TV taping, as well as catching up on life in general.
Wednesday and yesterday were flat-out working on the school yearbook, which had to be at the printers this morning. This was, of course, at the same time as I had to teach year-end classes, do more work on progress reports (still not finished), and meet with the producers of the show in the afternoon yesterday! To finish the yearbook, I worked at my co-teacher's house with her until 2 AM. It was a massive amount of work. So I ended up getting about 3.5 hours of sleep.
Then today, more work had to be done on the yearbook. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my class is performing a play on Monday, no small feat! And one scene of the play was written by a student and sent to me Tuesday night, revised by me Wednesday, revised more by him that night, and given final revisions Thursday for the first rehearsal yesterday and the second (& last) one today. Now, after spending about an hour reading emails, I still have about 600 unread messages left.
So... lampwork? What lampwork? I did some torching Tuesday evening because I had to for the show. I blew up the stuck beads, cringing in panic that the hot sharp pieces would fly at me. I got lucky, though, and am starting to learn to control the shattering. I also made two test beads, one on a mandrel that was double-dipped in the release that was too thin, and the other on a mandrel dipped in my original bead release. Both of them came off like a dream. Nice beads, too. It would be a nightmare to have them get stuck while taping for the show! Oh, and I ordered a kiln. It should come while I'm in Israel, hopefully.
My nails seem drier now. They turned out pretty! Hopefully they will be nice enough on the show, and they won't chip, especially when making the chainmaille.
Besides setting up a display of my jewelry, the most important thing I have left to do tonight is to make a lampwork bead like the one to be demonstrated tomorrow. On less than four hours of sleep, I'm not looking forward to it... it's all I can do to stay awake. Wish me luck!
If they let me, I'll post photos of the taping tomorrow.
posted by Susan at Aspiring Arts at 6:18 PM
1 Comments:
Good luck, Susan! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow afternoon, and can't wait to hear how it all turns out, and watch you on TV!
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