Invigilation is always a problem, no matter how organised you think you are. The rota we set up for the two exhibitions was pretty tight anyway, so when one person told us she couldn’t do her day, there was very little we could do about it. I started asking around, but realistically, it was too short notice and with it being a week day anyway, the likelihood of a hoard of people going up to visit us at the Bridewell was very slim.
I changed the info on the website and kept tweeting all day that we were going to stay closed, hoping that all would be OK. The project is huge and in comparison this is only a very small blip – not worth losing sleep over.
The good news is that we now have at least ten Leeds Met students that are going to help with Invigilating over the next week. This though, meant that I have had to convert my work room at home to a bedroom for two to stay at a time. It’s a tight squeeze and I seem to have spent most of last night and half of this morning, shifting stuff around to make a decent space.
I spent the afternoon invigilating at Bridewell , taking over from Julie Dodd, who did the first few hours. Even though the exhibition had been on for 3 days now, this was the first time I’d been able to really look at each of the works without any distractions.
We only had a handful of visitors for the day, which was such a shame, but I was grateful for a few hours of just sitting. No organising, no thinking about work and most importantly no stress.
