4.08.2007
Like a Speeding Car
... or perhaps more like the slowly moving Hummer that crushed the rear bumper of my car yesterday (my brother was driving my car, although it's not his fault, it's the idiot driver talking on her cell phone who's to blame).
... or perhaps more like my rusted bike that will no longer pedal uphill due to the complete corrosion of it's 2nd gear, which cracked sometime last fall.
These are a search for the proper metaphor to describe the impending end of the academic year. It approaches, quickly yet slowly and painfully, and decisions must be made. Luckily some of them can get made for me by acceptance letters.
So, since I'm currently working on an 8 page paper, I decided that this blog was long overdue for a post about where I will (and will not) be this summer.
Early May- Ann Arbor, drawing class
May 21st- to Amsterdam via London
May 26th- to Berlin
May 29th- to Zurich (and all around Switzerland on a daily basis)
June 8th- to Lugano
June 11th- back to Zurich
June 15th- to Stuttgart?
June 22nd- to Florence or Rome
July 5th- to Paris
July 9th- to Fontainebleau
August 10th- to Southern France
August 16th- to Detroit via Paris and London
To summarize, I will not be in the US this summer.
May-June is for the TCAUP Switzerland Studio and will involve lots and lots of drawing and cheese and traveling and chocolate.
July-August is for the Ecoles d'Art Americaines de Fontainebleau which will involve lots and lots of drawing and thinking and listening. And maybe some reading at cafes.
I love summer.
Currently Reading: "Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision"
... or perhaps more like my rusted bike that will no longer pedal uphill due to the complete corrosion of it's 2nd gear, which cracked sometime last fall.
These are a search for the proper metaphor to describe the impending end of the academic year. It approaches, quickly yet slowly and painfully, and decisions must be made. Luckily some of them can get made for me by acceptance letters.
So, since I'm currently working on an 8 page paper, I decided that this blog was long overdue for a post about where I will (and will not) be this summer.
Early May- Ann Arbor, drawing class
May 21st- to Amsterdam via London
May 26th- to Berlin
May 29th- to Zurich (and all around Switzerland on a daily basis)
June 8th- to Lugano
June 11th- back to Zurich
June 15th- to Stuttgart?
June 22nd- to Florence or Rome
July 5th- to Paris
July 9th- to Fontainebleau
August 10th- to Southern France
August 16th- to Detroit via Paris and London
To summarize, I will not be in the US this summer.
May-June is for the TCAUP Switzerland Studio and will involve lots and lots of drawing and cheese and traveling and chocolate.
July-August is for the Ecoles d'Art Americaines de Fontainebleau which will involve lots and lots of drawing and thinking and listening. And maybe some reading at cafes.
I love summer.
Currently Reading: "Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision"
Labels: procrastinating
11.28.2006
Eating Yogurt with a Fork
Due to my failure to do dishes in a timely manner, I have no spoons and am stuck eating yogurt with a fork, which feels funny. I'm also procrastinating from writing the response paper I should have turned in last night. I hate email when it enables professors to set deadlines at times like 8 pm. I mean, seriously, what are they thinking? Mmm... peach yogurt. Oh wait, no, "Harvest Peach" yogurt. We have to be precise here.
The picture is the cutest hampster picture ever, emailed to me by my friend Anna who apparently googles "adorable kittens" when she's procrastinating.
Currently Reading: about the crisis of urbanism
Labels: amused, procrastinating, waking up
11.07.2006
Dragging
The sick/worn out combination is still persisting (although the sick is almost gone) which is a bad thing for two reasons:
1. Dry nose -> absurd amounts of bleeding
2. Tired Hattie -> complete lack of interesting ideas/moderate stupidity
If you don't believe in the moderate stupidity, just ask Pearl and Ashley, who witnessed it regularly last year. So, I am presently sitting, feeling exhausted and yet needing to have some very substantial steps to show during arch. studio tomorrow. Also, my chest was hurting today kind of where my heart is. Which makes me feel mildly paranoid that I'm about to have a heart attack at the ripe old age of 21. Highly unlikely considering that I have had perfect cholesterol counts for my entire existence.
And after those happy thoughts, I will relate a story that many of you have already heard. When I get sick with a cough, I need to have a glass of water near my bed so that when I wake up choking in the middle of the night I can hydrate. One night last week I woke up and reached for my glass of water and because my throat felt like it had a cactus in it, I decided to hold onto it for a few seconds. At which point, I promptly fell asleep still holding the glass. An hour or so later I woke up feeling clammy and confused. After a few moments I realized that I had spilled the water all over myself and my sheets. My solution? Ignore it and roll over because in all honesty, this same thing happens every time I get sick.
Currently Reading: The Bible
1. Dry nose -> absurd amounts of bleeding
2. Tired Hattie -> complete lack of interesting ideas/moderate stupidity
If you don't believe in the moderate stupidity, just ask Pearl and Ashley, who witnessed it regularly last year. So, I am presently sitting, feeling exhausted and yet needing to have some very substantial steps to show during arch. studio tomorrow. Also, my chest was hurting today kind of where my heart is. Which makes me feel mildly paranoid that I'm about to have a heart attack at the ripe old age of 21. Highly unlikely considering that I have had perfect cholesterol counts for my entire existence.
And after those happy thoughts, I will relate a story that many of you have already heard. When I get sick with a cough, I need to have a glass of water near my bed so that when I wake up choking in the middle of the night I can hydrate. One night last week I woke up and reached for my glass of water and because my throat felt like it had a cactus in it, I decided to hold onto it for a few seconds. At which point, I promptly fell asleep still holding the glass. An hour or so later I woke up feeling clammy and confused. After a few moments I realized that I had spilled the water all over myself and my sheets. My solution? Ignore it and roll over because in all honesty, this same thing happens every time I get sick.
Currently Reading: The Bible
Labels: procrastinating, tired
10.30.2006
BUGS
I think that I have killed more spiders, flies, and giant nasty bugs that smell like grass in this apartment than I have total in the rest of my existence.
Currently Reading: Snobby, critical architecture writing
Currently Reading: Snobby, critical architecture writing
Labels: avoidant, procrastinating
