My "Half" Summer

This summer has been...interesting, to say the least. It has also felt like the summer of halves. Let me share some of these with you.

Thing Half Done This Summer:

Paintings

This one was meant to be decorative and I intended to finish it quickly. It's a design by Charlie Harper (genius), but the precision got to me and I never finished (but I will).

This one is also an homage, but it also serves as an example for a project we do in my art classes. It's David's "Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass (or, Napoleon Crossing the Alps)." I may have stuck with this one had I not finished Napoleon and been instantly frustrated. I'm sure even the most casual observer can see the fatal flaw that I did not take the time to stop, analyze, evaluate and correct: the two halves of his body are in different scales. The end result is that he looks ridiculous, and I'm ashamed of it. Definitely not my best work.

I'm not sure if this one even counts. I can't remember if I worked on it this summer, and it's been half-finished for over a year. Anyway, here's what it looks like now.

Marriage

I don't really know how to elaborate. It's been weird.

Books
Certainly one of the more entertaining half-read books from this summer.
This one had some good thoughts that hit me at the right moment.

And this one was nice, but for some reason I didn't feel like I needed to finish, since it was just a collection of short stories. Regardless, it's my own fault that I didn't finish any of these books. What sane person tries to read three books at one time?

I have one day of freedom left, and then summer is over. I return to a classroom without a working projector (which is kind of a big deal, especially for art history), lacking the cart of 30 Macbook Pros (I hope they don't dock my pay to compensate for their mysterious absence), and ready to receive 39 students (my largest class ever). And you know what's crazy? I'm actually looking forward to it.