OK so I was really looking forward to this week being spring break.  With Chores and the Collective installed and open, this gave me dedicated time to just work- no conference calls, no emails, no tracking emails, to chasing down people I need things from, no designing any emailers, posters, announcements etc…. Yup, this week is all about me.

And now the lesson I am trying to learn is how to deal with my dedicated week while SICK!  Oh dear readers, how did this happen??  I woke up Saturday morning feeling under the weather.  I took it easy especially since I was shocked about Barba-del’s passing.  It only seemed to get worse on Sunday and as of yesterday, I was sure I was on the road to mono.  I had swollen throat, exhaustion, headache, and intermittant fever.  I have had mono once before and spent nearly three months in bed.  Horrid!

But now I am jacked up on so much Emergen-C; vitamin B complex, Super Lysene, and Oscillia;  I am determined to finish- ON TIME!  I have to say I sat in bed Sunday morning working out this week’s schedule that I was still feeling pretty confident that I surely have this even while sick.

Today I nearly sugared the rest of the wall pieces except for the “big one” and I left them to set and dry for tomorrow.  I am crossing all my fingers and toes that I will be ready to hang the bulk of them while at the site.  From the above picture, please note that I am nearing a completely boxed in state and am running out of surfaces to sugar on.  *sigh*  One day I will have my very own warehouse to have endless amounts of surfaces to sugar upon!  For now, yes, I am boxed in.  I dream of an enormous  food dehydrator to pull all the moisture out of  my wall panels.  Perhaps a room dehydrator (I think a de-humidifier on steriods would work too)?

How did it get to this?  I have worked weekly on the room yet perhaps I relied to heavily that one dedicated week would do miracles.  I have not given up yet….. I actually am still quite optimistic.  I really think I got this!

I do have to say the only thing I think I have had the overbearingly scary omen about is the video.  I do have a consultant on this project however she assures me that iMovie will be quick and simple for what I want to do.  I took my footage 2 weeks ago but only got the footage to my hard drive today.  Don’t ask what a disaster that was!  Not knowing anything about anything, I sat transferring the 4.56gb footage for an hour thinking that it just takes that long…. not so much.  I finally asked the technician and he said the computer had crashed- oh, right (I don’t want to hear it, Mac users!!).  I finally restarted and moved the file.  It took 3 minutes or should I say 1 hour and 48 minutes because that was how long I was at the media lab doing this today.  Now, I would like all of you who read this to send me good iMovie mojo so that I may lay this component to rest.  I’m serious, sweet readers, I beg for all of your positive energy!

So finally, I am so very anxious to get what I call “onion paper” (see sample below) into the walls.  I am certianly ready to move onto the next step…. as soon as I create a desert climate in Arts Lehigh.