Grunt Work

I'm taking the opportunity to reflect on the experience of preparing the gallery today. I will say, it was definitely a lot more difficult and more work than any of us had anticipated. I thought it was just going to be walking in there, patch up a few holes, paint, and we'd be out of there. Boy, do i wish it would've been that easy. Walking in there, we realized that there was this huge mural(size of a whole wall), constructed of paint and lots of paper that was stuck with wheat paste (basically wallpaper). So we had to strip all that off, sand the walls to be smooth, put on multiple primer coats, THEN PAINT! It was definitely not what I had anticipated, and I was real exhausted by the end of the day. But I did show up 12 on the dot, and work to do as much as I possibly could to get everything prepared for tomorrow. The way I see it, the work absolutely had to be done today, so we could walk in and just hang work, no stress, just take the time to lay everything out nicely and not have to be pushed for time. Unfortunately, there weren't a whole lot of people who actually showed up, i am glad some did though. The majority of the people only stayed 1 to 1 1/2 hours at a time, which is fine, I understand that everyone has a busy schedule and the end of the semester. But i honestly, stayed the whole damn day, 12 to 6, which isn't what I was hoping to do, but i'm a work horse, everything got taken care of, lets have some fun at the show. I'm really looking forward to be able to hang out and look at people's work, goof around a little bit and just drink a few beers. I want to enjoy the outing as one of the last times to really hang out with this graduating class. We might as well have a good time while we still can, I honestly don't know who and when the next time i'll see them after this.