Open Studios recap

[moominmolly]

I think that that was the most socially exhausting thing I've ever done. Six straight hours of being happy and social, talking to a stream of people (some of whom want to stop and give me sincere compliments), two days in a row. Last night, it was a tremendous amount of effort to even send instant messages. I did a lot of wall-staring, and then an awful lot of dilletante-snuggling, and today, I'm a little more human.

But it was GOOD! Great, even. SO many people I knew came by to stop and look and chat. I felt very supported. I'm still crappy at accepting compliments -- fennel, who kept me company for a while, told me to stop downplaying my efforts to people, which I hadn't even realized I was doing -- but each and every person who stopped in to say hi made me feel really happy, so thank you. I sold enough to make an actual profit. I sold things to total strangers. Lots of people took my business card. But the whole thing would have been worth it even without all that just to see the one quiet guy flip through my books for a while and then say, "it must be nice to walk around in the world and notice stuff like this every day."

Yeah! It kinda is, now that you mention it.

I have so far to go, artistically, so much to improve, and so many projects stuck in my head waiting to be done, but I guess the hundred days project is working: I'm actually starting to do some of that work, and it feels good.