Playing Hooky
Oct. 18th, 2014 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrIt's a sunny Saturday in mid-October, and I'm not at Saturday Market. I feel vaguely guilty, as though I'm playing hooky or something.
It doesn't matter that I've got good reasons. The van hasn't been re-sorted and stocked from Clay Fest. Denise has the sniffles. And I really need the studio time to start preparing for my first holiday firing, loading in early November, less than three weeks away. I spent the morning in the studio, throwing covered casseroles and colanders, and trimming and handling teapot lids. It's not like I'm slacking.
The thing is, I'm almost compulsively responsible. I think I cut class all of once, as an under-graduate; never in grad school. I go to mass every Sunday morning, I do my radio show every Saturday afternoon--unless I'm out of town, in which case I find a sub. Being in town and not being at Market feels wrong.
I've done a Saturday Market in October already, so fulfilled the terms of my reserve space. I've warned everyone that after Clay Fest, I'll probably only be around if the weather is nice, because I need to spend time in the studio.
Doesn't matter. It's sunny, I'm not there, and feeling guilty.
It doesn't matter that I've got good reasons. The van hasn't been re-sorted and stocked from Clay Fest. Denise has the sniffles. And I really need the studio time to start preparing for my first holiday firing, loading in early November, less than three weeks away. I spent the morning in the studio, throwing covered casseroles and colanders, and trimming and handling teapot lids. It's not like I'm slacking.
The thing is, I'm almost compulsively responsible. I think I cut class all of once, as an under-graduate; never in grad school. I go to mass every Sunday morning, I do my radio show every Saturday afternoon--unless I'm out of town, in which case I find a sub. Being in town and not being at Market feels wrong.
I've done a Saturday Market in October already, so fulfilled the terms of my reserve space. I've warned everyone that after Clay Fest, I'll probably only be around if the weather is nice, because I need to spend time in the studio.
Doesn't matter. It's sunny, I'm not there, and feeling guilty.