yes.

At some point during class tonight I just gave up and wiped my hands on my jeans.

It took me three scrapped pots before I ended up with something halfway decent tonight. at one point i even forgot how to center for about 15 minutes. my mind has been all over the place- it shows in my pottery. to center the clay, you yourself must be centered or become centered. no, not really, but it does help to be somewhat present. i kept talking to myself in my head during class as though i were a guru imparting pearls of wisdom like that. anyway.

i need more sleep.

today i had a thought worth writing here: life is really just knowns, and unknowns. and the knowns we can list and assign values to, and we know enough about them to take comfort in them, to some degree. and the unknowns, we assign a value, like x, and try to do equations based on the knowns and unknowns, maybe set up ratios, or quadratic equations, trying to solve the unknowns for x. life is one big giant algebraic equation.

i really need more sleep.