So I got the nerve to send the first gentle reminder to my AP kids.  I found three of their e-mail addresses and asked that they pass the message on to the other three.  I spent some time researching AP curricula from other schools around the country.  Since it is pouring out today and I cannot do the outside work, I plan to begin work on curriculum writing today.  I have to submit the finished product to not just my AP supervisor at work, but also to the College Board for approval.  I have written so many different curricula over the years, I don't get nervous about it anymore.  I just run like a machine.

So I was going through e-mail and files yesterday.  I realized the publisher for my thesis didn't send me a statement this June.  Then I realized that the five year agreement is up.  So....  I had bought a few books, gone to see some work in galleries, and done more work some years ago in the hopes of expanding my thesis into a full book.  Now that the contract is up, I think I might get going on that.  I was extremely motivated to proceed with that project after presenting my paper at the SVA Humanities conference some years ago.  The response was good - good enough that a highly critical faculty member from the Ontario College of Art and Design asked me to submit to one of their conferences.  My thesis mentor was real positive about me moving forward, but work got a hold of me and my time and I find it hard to extricate myself form work and other responsibilities and commitments.  I just need the confidence to get myself moving on it.  I have the time this summer.  I had wanted to get through all the reading I never did over the school year, but this might be more important.  There has also been an increase in the subject matter I wrote about so that might mean more trips into the city to gallery hop, go to openings, speak to the artists...

I have colleagues who are adjunct instructors at local colleges.  Former students have asked why I don't teach at college level (they claim I should).  I have colleagues who have been published.  Me?  I let work suck me in the past two years.  I have only been in two exhibits in the past two years.  I have created very little art.  If I am going to try to inspire my students to get themselves out there, I need to get back to that.

But first, my massage appointment....  Hope I am not too ticklish today.