MA in Fine Art - Thursdays are special

Unfortunately, I have not really done as I originally intended and updated this blog regularly as this part-time Masters course progresses. I will try and correct that for the second year. It was a little difficult at first just getting a routine established, fitting work, business, family and image making around the course and still leaving time for study, research, attending university and producing quite big assignments and delivering presentations.

After a while however, a routine does start to emerge. Most weeks during each semester, we attend university on a Thursday, usually having a session in the mornings (currently Professional Practice) and one in the afternoon on a site-related project. Even during the holidays or when there is no need to attend university, I still keep Thursdays aside. They have become my ’sacred’ days - the days I devote to study and/or research.

This is working really well as one of the problems in trying to fit in a course like this when you are working, is finding undisturbed time to think and study. Everyone has now become so used to me being unavailable on a Thursday that they now don’t contact me on Thursdays anymore - no emails or telephone calls to deal with, leaving me free to concentrate on research and study. It works really well.

Don’t know whether I’ll be able to keep it up through the summer holidays though.