Consequences

So, in my first quarter of art school, I discovered that the consequence of a job well done is that your professor ends up holding your pieces hostage because they don't want to give them back to you and/or they're using them in a faculty rating system until the second week of the next quarter. This is why my portfolio photo album has not been updated.

I am flattered, yet slightly annoyed because I have no photograph of them, thus no evidence that I completed them, in case something happens. The professor and I compromised and agreed that they would photograph my pieces and email them to me so that I can at least have that security.

I'm not used to such a level of appreciation. Feels odd, in a good way.