So I'm at the studio, and I decide to get on the wheel for a while because I need to practice, my hand-built things aren't great, and maybe, just maybe I'll make something fairly good.

First attempt turns out to be a fairly good bowl shape. I try throwing a lid for it, since you don't want to really wait, you want to throw both pot and lid at the same time since they're both wet and shrinking has occurred yet. First attempt at a lid fails. Second attempt actually works. It's an overhang lid. It's actually the one I was most worried about because I had to basically separate the clay so there was a flange, something that in hindsight isn't extremely difficult, but I did almost mess up by being a little overzealous with the wooden rib. But whatever, cool.

I'm getting hungry, and it's nearly 5pm, so I start cleaning up. I move the board that has my thrown pieces on it (the bowl, the lid, the first lid attempt and one last bowl attempt, both of which didn't turn out right, but I figure maybe I can try to save through trimming once they've firmed up) to the table near my shelves. Once I'm done cleaning everything, I get some plastic from the bin to cover my pieces.

While I'm wrapping everything, I drop the damn board. ALL the pieces hit the floor.

This is not the first time this has happened. It happened last semester, and I'd been... I don't know if I'd been trying to throw or if I'd been hand-building, but whatever, when I was about to leave, I dropped an in-progress vessel. I swear it's something with my hands getting tired after hours of work and not being able to keep a good grip on stuff.

ARGH goddamnit. I hate it when I go through all that work just to fuck it up. Seriously life, I don't have time for this, I have too much to do this week.

I might go back to the studio later, but it ain't gonna be for a few hours. I need food and I need to chill.

Apparently, last week, there was something said about signing up for shifts later this month (like, a couple weeks from now) to load the kiln(s) and fire greenware. I think I was in the back getting clay, because I never heard about this until Emma told me when we were going to go to lunch.

We had to sign up for one loading shift and two firing shifts.

My shifts:
Loading: Monday, November 14, 3pm-5pm. Not bad.
Firing #1: Sunday, November 20, 6am-9am. A little early for me, but okay.
Firing #2: Monday, November 21, 3AM-6AM.

._.;;

And now I'm wondering if I should change the second firing shift. I took that one because otherwise I'd have to do a straight six hours of firing, from 3am-9am, on the Sunday, and I felt like waking up that early and having to be semi-coherent for six hours would be too much. I don't know if it's advisable to do six hours. I'm going to ask Bethany tomorrow, assuming the 3-6 slot(s?) haven't been filled. I don't know what the process entails. Like, if there's a lot of downtime and I can keep myself busy with other things, it might not be so bad, but if I have to be awake and know what I'm doing, it probably won't work.

Anyway. I'm tired. I'm taking a nap. I have nowhere to go until my meeting at 7pm with the rest of my religion class. I need to go to the studio and I need to study, but I need sleep above all else.

Good NIGHT.

(Called it, by the way.)