April 9

            Tuesdays are great.  I have blocks eight, one, two, and three free, so I just got to spend all morning in the studio.  Then I had English block four, and more studio time during five and six.  I trimmed four bowls, and I threw three more plates in case the old ones warp in the kiln.  I also decorated my teapot, which is going to be part of the table setting.  I did a blind contour drawing of myself on it.  I was in there for so long today that I had to take a few breaks, when I stopped throwing and decorated a few pieces of bisqued work with the colored underglazes that I got.  I painted purple flowers.  I really wanted to go outside all day.  It was so warm and sunny.  I sat outside for a bit while I was sanding some of the roughness off of the teapot.  Then I got to go for a walk later on so that was really nice.  There were two birds today who flew into the window behind me, and they both died.  It was sad. 

I felt really productive again today.  It’s crazy how much work you can get done when you have so much time in the studio.  It was really frustrating before my senior project started to have less than an hour in there every day, although I usually spend most of my free blocks in there too.  You only get maybe a half hour most days, too, because so much of the class time is given to setting up and cleaning up.  Especially with porcelain because you have to clean all of the stoneware off of everything.  Somebody in after school ceramics used my porcelain only wheel for stoneware!  It was super annoying.  I had to throw away all of the porcelain in the splashguard that could have been recycled because its was all contaminated with stoneware.  And the person who did it didn’t even clean up!  There was stoneware everywhere, I had to clean off the front part of the wheel and clean the splashguard.  It’s so annoying when people do things like that.  There’s two big signs on the wheel that say PORCELAIN ONLY.  I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just use one of the other wheels.  They were probably out to take fifteen minutes out of my day, or maybe they were just being selfish and didn’t feel like reading or cleaning or being a good person.