More changes

Something very good happened at work. I am moving onward and upward. No promotion yet, but a new challenge that I am happy about. It will start in earnest when I get back from vacation next week (art camp again in New Hampshire). It's going to mean getting used to a whole new group of people, and it's going to mean learning a lot of new science-y stuff. And it's also going to mean more late nights at the office. But I'm good with that.

Part of the great un-wadding of 2009 has mean coming to terms with my work life and what that all means for my creative life.

For the longest time I tried keeping them completely separate. I think partly that's a huge holdover from my past life in the ivy-covered ivory tower. Anything to do with business was dirty. And it had to be kept separate from personal creative pursuits at all cost. That thinking resulted in a lot of unnecessary anxiety.

There is room for it all, and things seem to work much better when I take a more fluid approach. Much better than trying so hard to keep those walls up.

A girl gets tired of all that.