Apparently, when I decide I’m not going to do a lot of work on the sculpture on a Thursday night, what that means is that I’m going to instead do a lot of work on a little tiny sculpture for the heck of it.
This was supposed to take fifteen or maybe thirty minutes. I’m not going to look at the clock, but I’m guessing it took an hour or even two. I’ll be kicking myself for the exhaustion tomorrow come 2pm. However, it will be immeasurably cool to bring this in to work and plunk it on the desk of my coworker, Jen. She is always supportive of my creative efforts, which started out as her bugging me to write horror stories for her to read. She pretty much sparked me into doing the first short story I’d done in a looong time. Now she always asked me about the sculpture, if I got anything done, what it’s going to be like, asking me to show pieces of it to her. I now have made it a habit to bring in two marbles every day from that six pound order I made a few weeks ago, ’cause she likes to check ’em out, and it sort of keeps me inspired with a larger goal in mind.
I gave her a couple in the beginning, and usually I hand the two I bring every day over the cube wall to her, and sometimes she ends up leaving them sit at her keyboard all day, at least when she’s not accidentally knocking them off and sending them rolling across the desktop.
So, yesterday when she knocked them off again I said, “I’m going to have to do something to fix that.” I don’t even think she knew I was addressing the rollage occurring on her desk, but I decided to finally give her a little “thank you” sculpture.
Thanks, Jen!
Hi Tom!
I wandered over from Kevin Alexander’s blog — someone (you? Oh, how fleeting is memory) posted your address a while back. I just wanted to say what a cool sculpture this is, and what a cool gesture. Now Jen will never lose her marbles again. (Look, someone had to say it.)
Cheers
Vicky
Hey, Vicky! Thanks for randomly dropping in on my little bloggy corner of the world. I think you hold the honor of being the First Person to Wander Over to My Blog Who I Did Not Specifically Direct To It. Genevieve is the thoughtful soul who posted my blog address over in Kevin’s comments.
Jen just walked in, and is all giddy over her sculpture. She even figured out a way to add two more marbles to it underneath the other three – something I had zero plans for. Interesting.
Oh, and, yes, I did say, “Now you won’t keep losing your marbles.” She gave me the appropriate look of annoyance. As you know, this joke is impossible to resist.
That is the sweetest darn thing! A tiny sculpture. You’re doing good work, man! And yes, I have the satisfaction of doing the world a service by directing them to your blog.
Your efforts are muchly appreciated. For such a tiny sculpture, it was amazing how long it took to make – far longer than the 30 minutes I’d allotted in my head. Oh well. Done now, and I finally caught up on the sleep I missed because of it.