All right, here’s the sitch: I hinted in my previous post that I have some things I need to be doing, and that I want to document my attempts at said things, so it’s time to get a lot less vague about this endeavour.

As my “Trial and Ellie” series of posts progress, I’ll get into more complex goals and projects, but for now, I have (almost) two weeks of Easter break from university in which I need to get caught up on my university work and, hopefully, find some paid employment.

The “find paid employment” task is intimidating me, so I’ll circle back to that one and outline the uni work first. It’s a start, right?

University Tasks:

• Read through the current draft of my Art History essay
• Complete the reading for my essay and pull out the quotes I’ll need
• Insert quotes into the draft
• Finish drafting the essay around the quotes (yes, I really break tasks down to this extremely basic level)
• Select the photos for my “studio book”
• Compile research for my studio book
• Put all the photos and research in the book
• Make sketches—some in my sketchbook, some larger
• Update my list of pieces to complete once I’m back in the studio

Apologies to anyone who finds this post (or this type of post) boring. This is actually the kind of stuff I like to consume, and what I plan to write more of—AND what I think I need to write more of, as it’s also genuinely helpful to me. Anyone else out there, working on stuff? Please tell me I’m not alone.