Not winning the Governors Island residency knocked me down hard for 24 hours and kept me down for twice that.  I forced myself to apply to another residency right away, like getting back on the horse.  I'd felt a brief but powerful tug to stop applying for anything, and eventually came to the resolution to spend less time on each application. Given the likelihood of winning, I invest a lot of time. My applications don't even improve, necessarily, from over-tweaking.

I am slowly starting to draw, building on the homework Ellen assigned and I completed (successfully).