Moping

• April 25th, 2006 • • studio 4A •

I swore I’d never be mopey on the studio blog, but I can’t help it. Michael and I talked in depth about what to do concerning the studio last night. There are several options, but I’m not happy with the one that is most-likely.

1) Find out why there is a problem with having an art studio in an apartment garage. I pay money, why should they care? Fight the damn problem. Pro: I get my way. Con: We rock the boat, the manager ‘blacklists’ us within the complex making for a miserable living experience the next year.

2) Move out when the lease is up. Pro: We move into a rent house with cheaper rent and whee! I get a huge-ass garage to muddle around in. Con: It’s MOVING (do you know how much our cumulative crap is?). We were gonna move out in another year into our OWN house. Our first purchased house together.

3) Move out MOST of the studio junk so I can park my car inside, thereby rendering the studio an official car-hole, with stuff stored next to the parking space. Pro: I get rid of a bunch of junk I needed to get rid of anyway, thereby preempting a major clean-out which will come when we move out in a year. Con: Great. There’s a freakin’ CAR parked in the middle of the studio.

Number three is the most likely, just because moving out a year early is kind of a silly thing to do, and there is no where to PUT the stuff. Yes, my car will be all safe in its new home, but most studio activity will have to take place in the bathroom. Ug ug and double ug. I am a mopey artist, except now I don’t have a studio to mope in. I’ll have to mope up where the computer is and pester my husband. Maybe I’ll start wearing black and doing dreary paintings about how bleak and hopeless the world is…

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