November 11, 2015

7.00 am. I awoke. (7.00 am now feels rather late in the morning, following my bout of 6.00 am starts.) 8.30 am. Into the drizzle, onto the School. 8.40 am. I set up my materials for the board priming demonstration at 9.10 am:

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As a painter, professionalism of craft and responsibility for one’s actions begins at the painting’s support and with the process of priming. These attributes of the finished work are often invisible — hidden from the viewer. As has been said often, it’s what we are in private that’s the true test and measure of our character. Similarly, it’s our carefulness in the execution of those aspects of a work which no one else will ever see or laud us for, as much as our concern for those which are evident, that commends integrity.

10.00 am. On with refreshing PowerPoint slides for tomorrow’s Abstraction lecture, responding to emails, resolving absenteeism, and ….

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… evolving (in consultation with homebase) a workaround to overcome the Arriva Trains Wales, two-day rail strike, which begins tomorrow and will disrupt my travel to London on Friday:

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12.30 pm. A final MA Exam Board Meeting.

1.45 pm. At homebase, following a late lunch, I returned to the book proposal. This needed to be completed and mailed to the publisher by the close of this evening:

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It was off my desk by 3.40 pm — sooner than expected. That bought me a little time to correspond with the new temporary director of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, and further update my CV. In the background, I played Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848-74). I anticipate that operatic and other magisterial classical music of this order will exert a considerable influence on the composition of ‘Image and Inscription’. The BBC news suggested that the forecast rail strike may have been averted. 

6.30 pm Practise session 1. 7.30 pm. I made a start on my research self-appraisal. This was an irksomeness to the flesh, as always. Before the close of work, I established PlayStation2: a practise hub, set up in the study, for early morning guitar work and learning music theory (which I’ve let slip of late). This was a balm to the soul:

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9.40 pm. Practise session 2 (at PlayStation1, in the lounge).

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