mood’s mirror

the sky
my mood’s mirror
reflected in the grey
a pall hanging over my head
wake up…

[8:43 AM]
Seriously. Never work on a submission document at 6 in the morning.

The Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Awards submission deadline is Thursday at midnight. Since no one here’s helped with suggestions as to what pieces I ought include, I took a stack with me on a little trip this past weekend and made some friends read the pieces to give me their opinions of them. Not that, mind you, I’ve finished narrowing them down to the ten or so that I’m going to submit, but that’s fine – it’s a start at least.

The biggie, though, is that the application has to go in on Thursday. Which means that while I don’t have to have the samples ready by then (those have to be in the mail physically by Saturday – the app goes in electronically on Thursday), I need to know what I’m submitting. Fine. So this morning, after my shower, I sat down to work on the app.

There’s no such terror as realizing figuring out your password to log in to the website, only to see that the app is gone and there’s no conceivable way to recover or restart it. So I panicked, trying to figure out what I could do, if I had time to do a physical submission (which requires mailing the samples and a print-out application on Thursday before 5 PM, etc…)

Turns out that four hours of waking up meant that I remembered the website changed. Maryland no longer judges their own competition – they got the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to do it. So I was on the wrong website… and on going to the right one, everything came up just fine.

*sigh* So much for me being bright..