Sssssh. Some people are trying to work here!
Hello darlings :D
Sorry for being so quiet and absent. My art blog is the blog that is getting updated, for the simple reason that I am doing pretty much nothing but work right now. We have our assessment on Wednesday and after that I have to finish my dissertation for the final hand-in the week after.
I’ve been having late nights at the studio pretty much every night. Going home at around 9 or 10 on average. Last Saturday I decided to go a bit further and actually did an allnighter with Rich. We worked until 6am the next morning.
What we were happily unaware of at that point was that we were not alone in the building. At the same time we were working in the middle of the night on the fourth floor, someone was burglaring the floor above us. We only found out about it on the Monday when the security officer came over to us and said he had us on CCTV, letting the criminal in to the building without realizing it. The way it works is that the access to our studio is by swipe card. Everyone has one, so the security staff can see who enters the building at what time. You can only open the door with the swipe card and the door stays open for a little while before closing behind you automatically.
The criminal had waited outside until me and Rich came back (within a few minutes apart of eachother), then snuck in behind as the door was about to close. Seeing that on the CCTV was frightening, but nothing compared to the guilt we both felt of having allowed it to happen. Our head of year came and talked to us and told us that there wasn’t anything we really could have done. You just have to be vigilant and if someone is about to walk in to the building with you, you have to confront them and ask if they have a swipe card.
The thought of confronting a burglar gives me the shivers though. :/ I tend to think about the worse case scenario.
Hrm..! Apart from that incident, it’s just all work over here.