Little Ado about Everything
Apr. 30th, 2006 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transomwhiplassYesterday was quite nice. We had a rather successful canned food collection in the morning and I spent the better half of the afternoon in the park near Cornucopia just sort of loafing and reading. I rode my scooter some around the neighborhood and that was very satisfying.
It became kind of overcast so I went home and tried to read some more. I ended up falling asleep until like... 12 AM. I hate when that happens. A nap turns into almost a full night's sleep but during some freakish hours. I read some more and that lulled me back into another sleep. Ugh. I feel wretched and so lethargic. I want to move around and do stuff but I feel like I have all of these indoor things I'm avoiding right now. Plus, I feel like I've been the slightest bit sick for the last few days. It's just been a sore throat but it hasn't developed into anything. I have some very, very, very mild congestion. I'm almost wondering if I'm having allergies (even though I never have..). If that's the case, well, balls... Once my doctor thought I had allergies and prescribed me a whole stash of medicines (since my brother's allergies almost killed him once). I think I tossed them when I moved. Argh. At least you can by most of that stuff over the counter. I'm really wondering since I practically chug water all day, and after the 13 hour sleep fest.. I should be totally fine.
I accidentally double booked myself for dinner tonight, and incidentally, forgot that I had both of them on Friday. The (APO) advisor's dinner vs. studio professor's pizza (making) party with a movie.. and beer. Yes, I will be going to the advisor's dinner in the spirit of sticking to the first commitment and not the preferable one. That doesn't sound very fair, but I think I'd rather shoot the shit with studio kids than have (yet another) talk about "why I joined APO." I love APO but the repetition kills me sometimes, it's necessary because each term involves a new generation of members who have never had these conversations or experienced the problems yet. Still, I just wonder 3 more years down the road, how many gray hairs a loving, fellow brother will have to rip out of my head.
Can I just say how much studio is frustrating me? All of this research into real social context has me ready to build the most irrelevant, self-important, pompous piece of architecture just to spite Demetrius for forcing us to suffer under all of these ridiculously tedious precedent studies. I see the merit in them and I appreciate what he is trying to do. However, I feel like my craft is suffering and we are losing precious design time. It's one thing to have all of this information, it's quite another to have only a week or so to synthesize it into a design (The other classes have sketch models already, few people have sketches in my class). We are going to be designing this in addition to an entire site model that he just assigned Friday. No matter that some classes are HALF done with it. I hate this because I think I'll probably be glad for Demetrius' extra hoops, but my design will also looked hurried and unpolished as a result.
I have to go into studio later. Awesome. Today, my three goals are: Ch. 30 in Catch-22, finish t-shirt design, send out two god-forsaken "spam" emails to unsuspecting Turkish folks with prying questions into their daily lives per the order of D-Met. OH GOODY.
It became kind of overcast so I went home and tried to read some more. I ended up falling asleep until like... 12 AM. I hate when that happens. A nap turns into almost a full night's sleep but during some freakish hours. I read some more and that lulled me back into another sleep. Ugh. I feel wretched and so lethargic. I want to move around and do stuff but I feel like I have all of these indoor things I'm avoiding right now. Plus, I feel like I've been the slightest bit sick for the last few days. It's just been a sore throat but it hasn't developed into anything. I have some very, very, very mild congestion. I'm almost wondering if I'm having allergies (even though I never have..). If that's the case, well, balls... Once my doctor thought I had allergies and prescribed me a whole stash of medicines (since my brother's allergies almost killed him once). I think I tossed them when I moved. Argh. At least you can by most of that stuff over the counter. I'm really wondering since I practically chug water all day, and after the 13 hour sleep fest.. I should be totally fine.
I accidentally double booked myself for dinner tonight, and incidentally, forgot that I had both of them on Friday. The (APO) advisor's dinner vs. studio professor's pizza (making) party with a movie.. and beer. Yes, I will be going to the advisor's dinner in the spirit of sticking to the first commitment and not the preferable one. That doesn't sound very fair, but I think I'd rather shoot the shit with studio kids than have (yet another) talk about "why I joined APO." I love APO but the repetition kills me sometimes, it's necessary because each term involves a new generation of members who have never had these conversations or experienced the problems yet. Still, I just wonder 3 more years down the road, how many gray hairs a loving, fellow brother will have to rip out of my head.
Can I just say how much studio is frustrating me? All of this research into real social context has me ready to build the most irrelevant, self-important, pompous piece of architecture just to spite Demetrius for forcing us to suffer under all of these ridiculously tedious precedent studies. I see the merit in them and I appreciate what he is trying to do. However, I feel like my craft is suffering and we are losing precious design time. It's one thing to have all of this information, it's quite another to have only a week or so to synthesize it into a design (The other classes have sketch models already, few people have sketches in my class). We are going to be designing this in addition to an entire site model that he just assigned Friday. No matter that some classes are HALF done with it. I hate this because I think I'll probably be glad for Demetrius' extra hoops, but my design will also looked hurried and unpolished as a result.
I have to go into studio later. Awesome. Today, my three goals are: Ch. 30 in Catch-22, finish t-shirt design, send out two god-forsaken "spam" emails to unsuspecting Turkish folks with prying questions into their daily lives per the order of D-Met. OH GOODY.
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Date: 2006-05-02 04:32 am (UTC)Just kidding, I'm not hurt--I had a ton of stuff to do myself :/
There'll be hang-out time later.
I too seem to be developing allergies, yet never have been diagnosed. It's weird, my body -- once immune to a great degree of maladies -- has been softened to the elements.
Sad days for the bureaucratic nonsense though. You have to tell me how the Turkish project turns out, though.
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Date: 2006-05-02 06:09 am (UTC)I think I'm actually just sick instead of suffering allergies (yay!). Sorry to hear you are a bit under the weather as well. At least allergy pills are over the counter now.
Unless you cut class, I might see you tomorrow. No more sad days (though tomorrow is supposed to be very windy).