many of you know that i work full-time, as well as own lazar studiowerx with my hubby and create mixed media artwork [yeah… i don’t sleep much lol!].

well, i would say that 90% of the time i really like my job - some days i damn well love it. it’s a creative, exciting, important and fun job working for the municipality i live in… this week however [and most of last week] fell into that 10% hate area.

it’s been a horrible 10 days with massive, crushing deadlines, working days-off, etc… then, you bust your ass and meet the deadline, only to find out that one person your project STILL needed input from has finally looked at the project and realized that THEY still needed to give you their 2 cents. so now, instead of gratefully acknowledging a job well done, my manager pushing the project through on time [regardless of one individual’s lack of commitment to the task], i am now told that the deadline has been moved to the following month. 4 weeks later! all this just after i’ve killed myself to get it done and 2 hours BEFORE it’s previous ‘drop dead deadline’  that had ‘no flexibility’.  wtf ?!?! ridiculous! grrrr…  and because of all the stress, i have had a migraine for 4 days. 4 days of non-stop pain and fuzziness. i worked through each of those 4 days, committed to meet my hard deadline and now i’m so exhausted i can hardly see straight.

today i’m mad, tired and thoroughly frustrated. this is one of those ‘hate’ periods in my ‘regular’ job that makes me want to quit and just do art. all art - all day. everyday. <sigh…>

too bad we live in beautiful vancouver with it’s high cost of living. maybe one day i’ll be a full-time artiste, but for now, c’est la vie… i have to suck it up, bite my tongue and carry on.

rant over. thank you for listening.
artwork to resume this evening after i scan a few new pieces from last week and take a nap.