Master of Fine Arts
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Today I got the mail: “The Degree Progress Department is pleased to inform you that your Master of Fine Arts in Interactive Media degree has been conferred and posted to your academic transcript at the University of Southern California.” Which I suppose means: time to go to work! Right now there are a couple of things on my plate: music contracts, part-time sound design, stuff like that. Not a lot, but at least it’s there. Seems that the date for finalizing contract terms always gets pushed back. And back. And back again. Which partly justifies my gallivanting about at conventions 300 miles away. Partly.
I’m rediscovering the need for schedule. School was great: a nice framework around which I could attach various creative spurts or embed long-term projects. Despite the reprieve from any high priority work, I just can’t get anything done. I cannot wait for life to kick in so that I can finally manage to insert significant stuff (that’s not my job) into it.
About time to shut down and move everything I own to another apartment a few miles away. I hate moves. I know there’s going to be some book or CD or 3 foot long box that’s going to go missing and I’ll go crazy for about 3 days trying to find it. It will be an adventure.
Just three more days before the thesis show opens. Right now things are moving well, but I’m waiting for the other shoe to fall: whatever that means. Seems like right now the whole thing is actually working the way it’s supposed to except for three things…