It takes a lot for me to really take action, when separated from my studio...

I kill a lot of time when I am home---a lot. I get things done, but without much will to leave the house or pressure to meet deadlines, from assignments to dining hall hours, this progress is pathetic.
But this was only the two week gap between my semester's end and the beginning of my Field Work Term session. For this mandatory work period between the fall and spring semesters, I found work encompassing both of my areas of discipline at school (visual arts/printmaking and spanish), an apprenticeship at a printshop in Spain.
I am leaving technically today, in approximately twelve hours, for the airport and my flight to Barcelona, where I will be living for the next six weeks.

To rewind to this past term, I had a varied and relatively laid back experience full of plenty of experimentation. Next term will be death---very intense by the look of the roster, but doable and probably very enjoyable. I will be taking courses ranging from Spanish theater and Don Quixote to French, Lithography, and Photointaglio ("Photos with Ink" as the course is titled). But that's where I enjoy my school and my education. There is allowed the freedom to follow several courses of study and integrate them within a single course or combination of courses throughout the four years of education. Printmaking is a similar thing, involving drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography if one desires. My Photos with Ink class is about a third pure printmakers, a quarter pure photographers, the rest a mixture of both. My only hesitation is returning to a larger class format of around fifteen people after having perhaps the best course I will ever have in my life this term, in part due to its seven person lineup. But first I need to finish packing.