paintings...

I am irrationally excited by the first day of my paintings being up at the North Hill Bakery in Seattle. It is probably a good thing that I am not actually in Seattle at the moment, because I would drive the bakery staff mad, spending the entire afternoon in there harassing all their customers as they tried to buy their lattes, cakes, etc., tugging at their coat sleeves and saying, "Hey, guess what?! I'm, like, a REAL ARTIST! You can tell because something I painted is HANGING IN A PUBLIC PLACE where, like, ANYONE can see it!" Is this normal? I didn't do this when I graduated from medical school...