I'm excited. My work is gonna be exhibited in the Art House of my home town. Quite surprised it worked out! They're organising an open call for the group show and I was asked to be one of the lecturers which means they get a work of mine for free. They'll get a slightly different version. of "Well Done", a much cheaper one. Hope it works out. The more people see it the happier I am. And I hope to meet some artists. It's opening on August 23rd so quite soon, but it

I've been in Basel for two week ends now, the first one I was sick. Today I went to the Migros Museum and the Kunsthaus with Nico. He's a bit on edge because he's preparing so much stuff. He's a bit scared that his work won't be good enough. I'm enjoying my time here, but need to keep reminding myself that stress is building up at home and that I shouldn't get too comfortable with just enjoying stuff here. We also went to the park today to relax. In the morning we had sex, but it wasn't great for me. And now I'm a bit horny and feel like I want to masturbate but don't have any energy, so I'm a bit frustrated. As always with things that frustrate me it makes me think of Sami and this: Why do I need to be horny when thinking of him? It's a bit annoying. But also very nice, so what are you gonna do about it? And my memory is such shit that I forgot what we were texting about last Friday morning (yes we're still doing the good morning thing). Yesterday evening we had our first open studios thing at my residency (I wanted to write residence but decided to look up if there is a difference and found out that residency is used for artists) which was very nice. My room isn't great for hanging stuff because of the small windows and all the stuff in front of them, but well make it work somehow. Whateven

quite good. I'm trying to stay calm and take it step by step. Have to do quite some bureaucracy now. for the visa but I'll find time for it. And with the residency. there are still some things that need to be prepared but it should be ok. I'm just in this weird state of limbo where I'm already doing things for my master's degree but not really because not Matricola yet so can't do the fun things like re gistering for courses. But also can't focus on art because there are so many other things to do (bureaucracy and preparing the residency) and I haven't even finished everything from last year.