Have spent the last couple of days trying to get used to the studio- however much I put things on the wall, it still looks too office-like. I managed to find a roll of thin white paper lying around by the lift so I have taken it. It will be very useful to cover the walls with and also if I want to do any drawings of my routes/runs. One of the other artists also found me some left over black-out paper on a roll, so I can black out the room if I need to. Unfortunately, it will only cover half the window space.
Yesterday morning the peer advisors met with the technicians and other staff to review the outcome of the entrance and technical interviews. This meant I couldn’t really talk to anyone about my project. I’m a little concerned about where to start technically with working out the live thing as there were a lot of things being bandied around at the technical interview which I’m not familiar with and I’d really like to make a start with some tests. I spent a frustrating morning trying to get the data from my Garmin GPS device I use to record my runs to transfer to some Mac software I just bought that it’s supposed to recognise the information and draw maps from. That’s something else I’ll have to ask about. GPS is just something I thought I might use as an additional tracking thing so the progress of my run can be seen in real-time.
The sun gets really strong in the afternoon around 3-4pm. By 4pm I’d had enough of being in the studio and I decided I would go for a walk up Tunnel Mountain. It was also to see if it could be feasible territory to run up. No I’m not that hard-core-(!) Tunnel Mountain is not really a mountain, it’s more like a large hill, also, the paths go across it laterally so it’s much more gentle than one thinks. It was worth the trip as it overlooks the whole town and you get panoramic views once you reach the top. I also went at the right time of the day, just into early evening, before the sun went down. Beautiful. The only down side was that because it‘s been quite mild and sunny over the last 2 days, the snow has started to melt and the paths were quite slushy and slippery. Definitely not a good idea to run in those conditions. Got back just in time to go to the campus restaurant for tea. Had hoped to go down town for a cinema screening at 7pm, but I would have had to rush so I gave it a miss. Instead I stayed quite late in the studio cutting lengths of white paper to fit the width of the wall.
