Originally I had envisioned writing my thesis via Twitter, but that seems straight up stupid. Too noisy, too disjointed, too difficult to categorize and collect. Now I have two hours to write the draft of my report and it seems the only way to achieve this is through blog post.

Timer: It is 6:15a. Finish by 8:15a. (Finished at 9:22a) I have no idea how long this is supposed to be…

Document task: link to MFA thesis report draft v1.

Next steps: email draft to Peter, Kate & colleagues, look up formal report requirements. Length, etc.

Mood: antsy to get this shit out of my life!

Music: Psytrance Pandora station. Infected Mushroom!

Premium: a journal entry about the pointlessness of it all! And a scan of my exhibition plans.
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All I want is to finish this! I feel I have crystallized my school work and my efforts are now focused primarily on income generation. Meaning, I don’t want to work on school anymore; I just need to graduate. I am still super pumped to work on my exhibition! Speaking of, here is my exhibition plan sketch.

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Tomorrow I give This morning I gave a 10 minute lecture to my colleagues about the influences behind my work. The assignment is this: “Assemble the projects, practitioners and ideas that have influenced your research, or which will help the curious reader/viewer situate your work in a conceptual framework. Assemble slides illustrating the projects, practitioners and ideas, and prepare a 10 minute lecture.”

Timer: 1 hour. Complete at 3:21pm. This wasn’t completed until just before I had to leave for school. It probably took 3-4 hours. The tasks:

• revise lecture based on Peter’s feedback last Wednesday
• find more appropriate slides to accompany each influence.
• publish in a blog post.
• determine best presentation method for lecture in morning.

Document task:
My current influences set is here. And my last version of the lecture is here. I need more exciting images and to write the lecture with more of a narrative arc. My current issue is the ordering, which I can’t decide should be chronological or not.

Wow well this post took an enormous amount of time and procrastination. The final post is here.

Next steps: thesis draft due Wednesday.

Mood: this documentation method is way too involved. I way over-procrastinated and didn’t produce much until a couple hours before the lecture… duh…

Music: some trance, some Love & Rockets.

Meta: This is the first time I’ve used this documentation structure to write a separate blog post. It mostly sucks, aside from the picture.

Premium: What I did instead of writing this post:

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I’m pondering the documentation of sex and its place in my lifestream. Maybe you don’t want to know about my sex life, and maybe you do. There is value in documentation to me, but likely not to you.

Yesterday was spent lounging on the trampoline in the sun with Kelly, delicious fucking, and eating. This marathon training seems to be pretty draining, and we are going to try the Thrive raw vegan diet to see if it makes training any easier.

My purpose here is only to say that restful Sundays are spectacularly rejuvenating :]

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Look at those pathetic blank boxes where designs should be! I need to come up with my final MFA exhibition plan. Now.

Timer: 1 hour. Complete at 7pm. It took several hours and a long brainstorm with Kel. It’s 9:07p, so it took 3 hours and 7 minutes.

The tasks:

• chew on an enormous list of “things to consider/ideas” for 20 minutes.
• sketch the exhibition space
• sketch the exhibition website/buy domain
• sketch the ‘life template’

Document task:

Next steps: I will be documenting all future development of my MFA exhibition in premium content only. I want it to be a surprise!

Mood: SO RELIEVED. THANK YOU KELLY.

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I promise I’ll tell you guys all about it in the morning. ^_^ I’m really excited about this project now!
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