Week Five

This week for classes is week five, the classic week for finished projects and midterms, nothing about this week stemmed away from that. I spent about 12 hours in studio last weekend alone. There were people coming in and out working on there own projects, so it wasn't too boring. I finished my details and plan drawings on Monday and got them copied with Mary and Jackie. You know, it takes a long time to pen a plan when you draw every individual tree on a 16 acre site? On Tuesday i came in for class at ten, left for an hour break during the day and left at 2 in the morning, just to color! Ick! I came in at about 9 Wednesday (that is sleeping in) and lettered my legend and turned in the project by noon. Wheww! Well tomm. after a couple night's sleep, i have to present my project to a board of students and professors for a crit. Eep! Hmm, well i am supposed to dress up and be as professional as possible. But my plants class tomm. was cancelled and i will be finshed by noon. Then tomorrow night there is another project completed sleepover at jackies. with Chickflicks and a potluck.
Last night was interesting, in case you haven't heard. After i studied my plants till, well too late in the morning i was checking my email, and my computer exploded!. Well i thought it exploded, but it was a transformer that blew and caused a brownout on this side of campus. I looked outside my window and i could see many windows with flashlights moving around inside as people tried to orient themsleves. We had a wonderful thunderstorm right after and it made my day, well my night. This morning i tried to wake everyone i knew had a morning class or had a test with me at 8. So, lesson of the day....

Buy an alrm with room for a battery in case the electricity goes out. ;)

I know, i know, its been a while, I haven't been up to par. But guess what?!, We found a house, we didn't get the first one we applied for, but one nearby that we got the day aftre it was posted, cool huh. 4 bedrooms too. Yesterday i woke at 7 and went in to lab and worked for 4 hours on my professor's request. He gave me a quick crit and then asked me to come in on sun. Really, he did. I told him i had church and would be busy otherwise. Didn't wake for church though. Stupid alarm. I also went to Jackie's roomates birthday party, it was...um...interesting. Not much else, we have a signed lease for july first and i will be at home, so i think jeff will be subletting for me.

Put up the pics from today...enjoy.

Monday

So i woke up at 630 this morning to head down to santa barbara to look at some places with my 253 class. We first met at 9 at the project site where they are taking a man made reservoir and turning it into a park. Huge place, Sheffield reservoir for the locals. There are 60 foot high tanks that were put in to hold the water and they will be buried, mainly for aestethics, but i am told also as a terrorist deterrent, "if you can't see it, it isn't there"
We then met at a very fast paced LA corporation office, Susan Van Atta's comp.( Look it up, you'll find it) they showed us different programs they were working on including the reservoir. We learned about different office atmospheres and starting salaries.......don't expect a refund Dad.
We went to luvnch at a nice italian restaurant, only to have Jackie find a lady bug in he rorganic salad. It might have been just me, but i did not eat with quite as much gusto afterwards. Atleast jackie got the meal for free.
We then met at Ellings Park. A large park that was actually built over an old landfill, it was quite beautiful and i am trying to figure what idiot would put his trash there, Oh well, its water under the bridge, or at least trash under the hill.
We stopped at one more site of the office where money was spent outside and thought out more than the actual offices, but the budget was low, so the site will not look like the plans for about 10 years. Uggh.

Sunday Observations

1. Church was what I needed.
2. I can sing soprano quite easily.
3. My entire life I have been too proud to sing in church because of a sister who was too scared to and molded her younger sisters to believe singing in church was stupid.
4. Favorite hymn- Great is Thy Faithfulness.
5. The Lord's Prayer has many different versions and when in a different denominational church should not be stated to loudly, as one can make a fool of themself. (I already knew that, but today really, truly reminded me.
6. People are very nice at the First Presbyterian church.
7. They give out free mugs.
8. They also like birthdays, as afterwards they were having a party for everyone's birthday.
9. People finally recognize me as a college age student. (might have been my attire)
10. Quotes of the sermon. "No man has lost until he blames someone else."
"A Person who does not allow himself to fail, does not allow himself to improve."

Friday

Got a new haircut yesterday. Its a little short. Look at the link.

House

Well, I'm not going to San Fran this weekend....(tear) But I will be turning in an aplication on a house today, W00t! I posted the link for ya'll. but don't apply too. That's just not cool. ;)
I'm off. It's Friday, maybe I'll see a movie tonight.

Looked at a really discusting rental house today ewwww and the yard was so bad, i would be too embarrassed to allow my fellow Larchs to come visit. Yes.....that bad.

The Weekend

Well i have to say the second part of the weekend got off to a splendid start. I played poker with Kevin, Kevin, Robert, John and Jeff, yeah, the only girl, oh well. When we played for money, i more than well represented the female kind, as i won! well, almost. Robert and I did not play head to head, as that is no fun and it was late anyway. This morning a number of us headed off to the Beach in Pismo, but it was bitterly cold (for Cal) and laying in the cold wind in a swimsuit was not an option. So, we went on the swings and made a sand society. I'd say sand castle, but that term is far too elementary for our polytheistic society. Paying homeage to a water god, the city in complete with embattlements, A temple (for every state of water) a city bath (co-ed, but seperate)
a large bridge to cross the moat, John's building (never found out what that was) and Brenda's leper society, within the city limits, but not within the city walls. Tonight, we watched a movie
The Little Shop of Horrors, wierd movie. oh well, Night all. I'm out.

Saturday

Last night was quite fun at Jackies, just a girls night with sushi movies popcorn and ice cream. No pillow fights though, sorry guys. I did not however sleep over, i came back home to sleep in my own bed.,....mmmm sleep. I woke up at 10 (yay) and went down to grover beach to change my oil at Christine's. there was a prob though, my car is too low for the ramps, The grill hits and pushes the ramps away before the tires cam get on them, so oil change did not happen, i did however wash my car, and will bring it in for a check up soon anyway, its due. I stopped at Walmart for an iron on patch, stupid pants, and then headed to Jackies to start a housing search. We found a couple, but only one that doesn't rent until summer.....anyone need a summer sublet? I might have one. We went to Bali's for yogurt then I came home, to fill you in on my very boring day.

Thurs and Friday

Thurs morning Joel and i worked on our piece of the design by the railroad and santa barbara street. we then all got together to piece together our collage of different pieces. We tried to start another master plan, but did not have time before our presentation of the day. The leaders foragce us for not having everything down because they knew we had ideas that were not expressed on paper yet. Afterwards, we divied the work and i left for dinner as my part could not be done until the final master plan was completed. When i returned at 8 the three people working ont he model had gotten very little done, but marisa and Matt had gotten pretty far on the plan. So I started my sections through santa barbara and the RR and finished coloring them by 1130. OUr tream leader matt apologized that they didn't get to teach the lower classmen much, but there wasn't time in a week. Especially when other classes are cutting in.
So today, being Friday. We got together to prepare for our final prersentation to government officials and divied again what we would say. Our presentation went very smoothly and i found that our group was not far behind in productiona at all. It seemed that work actually impressed. I think i finally showed tot he upper classmen that i am not a total dunce as they started to trust me towards the end, and i actually think i learned thing this week, making this week a success, i suppose.(BTW, the last line is going on my paper about it...sorry)