Today, I officially put my house on the market. It is listed on FSBO.com. It is soon to be listed on craigslist and any other free online place I can find!

I think I've got a decent photo of the house... but it's a bit out of date. I'm going to have the lawn manicured this week... then I can take some photos of the outside of the place!

Here are the websites for the house! Check back soon for updates.

http://www.fsbo.com/128695
http://memphis.craigslist.org/reo/1199842992.html
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10230-Sterling-Ridge-Dr-Cordova-TN-38018/72469740_zpid/

Also... my ad will be in the Commercial Appeal starting on Wednesday! WOO HOO!

It's been updated / tweaked / revised once again!

http://chrisgreer.net

Good evening.

It has taken me awhile to process everything that has happened in the last twenty-four hours. It has also taken me awhile to compose my thoughts. I have many that I feel I need to share with you.

I am in shock over the storm damage to the main campus of Union University... and my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected there. At the same time, I am also extremely angry over the way in which Union University chose to handle its evening classes last night. As your email from 4:37 PM yesterday states, Union University's evening classes were still going to meet as scheduled. I attend classes on both campuses of Union University. Yesterday, I was scheduled to attend a class on the Germantown campus. Had this not been the very first meeting of my class, I would not have risked getting out in the extreme weather to attend it. Having to get out in the impending weather just to attend a class that could have very easily been cancelled was an incredibly terrifying experience. Because of the very poor decisions made by Union University, my life and my classmates' lives were unnecessarily put in serious danger. People DIED in these storms last night and many more suffered a wide range of storm-related injuries.

A tornado warning was issued for DeSoto County, MS, seven minutes BEFORE your email was sent out. Did the administration at Union University not watch the weather report for Memphis before sending out an email saying that evening classes were still meeting as scheduled?! Did they not watch the news and see that nearly every other college in the area had dismissed classes HOURS earlier?!

This storm moved very swiftly through our area. Twenty minutes after the sirens went off in DeSoto County, they began going off in Shelby County. By this point, I was sitting in a second-story classroom on the Germantown campus. We were quickly rushed downstairs into a first-story classroom where we remained for at least another half an hour. Our professor eventually rounded up our class and gathered us together in an adjacent classroom. She distributed the syllabus and promptly sent us on our way. However, I couldn't leave the campus. The tornado sirens were still going off and no one had any information on where the storms were going, exactly how severe they were, and if it was even possible for me to get back home safely! I was stuck... and very scared. Also, I had no idea if I was going to be caught in another round of severe weather en route to my home in Cordova. When the sirens stopped, I gathered my belongings, went out to my car, and left for home. There were many moments in the car when I wondered if I was even going to have a house to come home to. Despite the fact that it was nighttime, I could still see the tall dark storm clouds and near-constant lighting that loomed over the Cordova / Lakeland / Arlington area. Fortunately, I pulled up in my driveway to a still-intact house. I immediately entered the house and turned on the news. I saw video footage of the severe damage to the Hickory Ridge Mall. It made me sick to my stomach that the damage to the Hickory Hill area was just a few short miles away from the Germantown campus of Union University. I later learned that the storm cell had tracked over the Germantown campus. I am thankful that the Germantown campus did not suffer the same kind of damage as the main campus.

I do not hold you personally responsible for the terrifying experiences that I suffered last night. However, I DO hold you personally responsible for getting this email to the party or parties who ARE responsible for keeping Tuesday evening's classes open. I do not appreciate my life being unnecessarily put in danger. Union University's decision to keep classes open yesterday evening was reckless, dangerous, and irresponsible. I commend the other colleges and public school systems in the area for putting the safety of their students first when they closed down their campuses due to the impending weather. After my experience last night on the Germantown campus, it is now obvious to me that my university does not take their students' well-being seriously enough.

Sincerely,

Chris S. Greer
MAEd Student - Germantown Campus

I re-discovered my art today. I haven't felt like this in two and a half years. I made these incredible images today and yesterday during my printmaking workshop. These will become the springboard for my next body of work. I feel like an artist once again.

TN Arts Academy has been nothing short of an absolutely amazing experience. I cannot wait to go back to work in a few weeks. I am SO excited about this next school year! I feel re-energized... and I have all these great new ideas that I am looking forward to implementing in my teaching.

When I get home, I am doing two things: (1) Reworking my curriculum and (2) Starting on my new body of work.

I am so glad I came here. I have benefited from this experience in countless ways.

I've come to the realization that I LOVE things that are "in-progress". I always have to have a project that is "in-progress". I love the process of completing a project... all those little stages of seeing something being pulled together. For the last several months, the "project" has been the house. I have so many wonderful memories of working on this house... choosing paint colors... deciding where everything is going to go... turning this place into a proper home. Well, the house is like 99% done. You know what this means... I can finally direct my undivided attention to my studio! I will be travelling to New York City very soon to visit the museums and galleries there. Once I return, I think I will finally be ready to get back to work in the studio. I've missed my paintings and my art so very much. I can't wait to get back to my work again.

I've had the pleasure of spending much of the afternoon and evening upstairs working on my office and art studio. My futon couch in the office is partially assembled... and the two commercial-grade metal shelving units are completed and ready to be moved into the studio. This is a HUGE step towards the organization of that room. Once the room is organized, I can begin assessing what supplies I will need to purchase to finally get this studio off the ground. I hope to be painting by the end of this month. *crosses fingers*

Entry on ideas for new paintings to come soon. I may have to look through my older private entries on here to see what I've written about doing in the past. There have been so many delays in getting this studio up and going. It feels good to finally see some progress being made in this part of the house. No one is going to make this happen but me. I've just got to work that much harder to see that it gets done. I will make this happen!

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My website desperately needs an overhaul. Any takers? I could do it myself, but I'd really like to not have to deal with that on top of everything else. I can pay you in art! Or... in advertising space for yourself on my site!

Cooper Young yesterday was a blast. Didn't really sell anything... but that honestly wasn't my intention when I agreed to help two of my good friends run their booth for the day. I primarily went to research and participate. I think the best venue for my work is going to be a bonafide art gallery. However, doing festivals such as these is such a great way to get exposure. By next year, I should have enough things pulled together to have a booth. My problems have been (1) lack of inventory due to the sales from my thesis show in 2004 and (2) lack of time/space to actually make new paintings. If it wasn't for that, I would have probably had a booth of my own out there yesterday... or even the year before. There simply aren't enough hours in the day. There is SO MUCH that I want to do. To make it happen, I'm going to have to work that much harder.

I am up here in the studio and office unearthing stuff I haven't seen in nearly two years. I feel like I am re-discovering who I am. It's like I got a little lost during the past two years. I can't wait to begin painting again. By October 1st, I hope to have the entire upstairs painted, assembled, and organized so that I can begin working on my ART. A return to the studio has been a long time coming. I finally feel like this is really going to happen this time. The entire reason I bought this house is so I would have a special space to be creative in. It's really going to happen. I can't wait.

Art makes me happy in ways that nothing else can.

It completes me.

Okay. I would like to express my extreme love for Netscape Navigator and Netscape Composer... because without the two, I would not have been able to make a recent addition to the website! And... the fact that both were FREE DOWNLOADS is just icing on the cake for me. Now that I know that I can manage my website here on the iMac without the purchase of expensive new software, expect to see more long-overdue additions to chrisgreer.net. This will include a re-vamped resume... more of my art images being added... and more snapshot photos being uploaded to the Snapshots gallery.

This is Butch! I'm surprised that he actually sat still long enough for me to take the picture.





And here's a picture of me with Butch. Mary walltalker took this one while she was in town!