Meme: 31 Days of December: Day 7 My Week

[escritoireazul]

Day 01: a picture of you taken this year
Day 02: talk about music this year
Day 03: talk about movies this year
Day 04: talk about television this year
Day 05: talk about books this year
Day 06: talk about food this year
Day 07: your week, in great detail
Day 08: your Hanukkah wish list
Day 09: a photo that makes you happy taken this year
Day 10: a photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11: your favorite photo this year
Day 12: your favorite website this year
Day 13: new items you’ve added to collections this year
Day 14: What you are proud of from this year
Day 15: something that made you laugh this year
Day 16: something that made you sad this year
Day 17: something that made you happy this year
Day 18: what is on your desk right now
Day 19: what you learned this year
Day 20: talk about hobbies this year
Day 21: what you are most pleased about this year
Day 22: talk about art this year
Day 23: What you did to have fun this year
Day 24: a photo of you and your family
Day 25: Talk about politics this year
Day 26: A list of what you got for Hanukkah
Day 27: A new years resolution
Day 28: Something which caught your interest this year
Day 29: Travel you did this year
Day 30: Your plans for New Years
Day 31: Best moment of the month


Day 7: your week, in great detail

Yeah, no. My week involves a lot of job hunting and being depressed. I went to pottery class this week, though, and that was fun. I actually managed to take a piece off the wheel, for the first time in weeks. I needed the win that brought; I've been feeling like a complete failure, and even considering quitting (I came to the end of one cycle, i.e, the end of one big bag of clay), because it felt like I wasn't making any progress and I wasn't learning anything, so all I was doing was wasting my instructor's time and all that clay. (Technically, the clay can be processed to be reused, but it still feels like a failure.) But I finally finished a piece enough to take it off the wheel, and I actually figured out what was going wrong when I try to raise the walls (which is how you make the walls an even thickness from top to bottom and add a little height). That was a relief, and I'm proud that I figured out I needed the win of finishing something on the wheel, because I could have tried to make the new piece taller, but there was the risk I would ruin it, and I needed the win more than I needed a more perfect piece. That is a concept that is difficult for me and my perfectionism.

Also, the first piece I ever took off the wheel at my very first class has been glazed and fired, and while there are so, so many errors, it is a gorgeous blue color and really thrilling to hold something that I created.

Comments

[tamsin]

Wow, pottery sounds really hard. Congratulations on finishing a piece!

[glass_icarus]

Congratulations! I didn't know you do pottery!

If it helps, I can offer you what my mom, who is a potter and teaches classes at a community art center, has to say about pottery. It's been very helpful to me in countering my own perfectionism (in other areas, obviously).

[zhelana]

Congrats on your win!