Design week, day one

Time logged, 945-1045, work, 100-600.
I have to say, this design week will not be as frustrating as last year's. I think that my group is sincere and will end up being a pretty hard working group. Ideas were thrown out quite proliferatly and thats just awesome. While some may not actually work, and some may not be conceiveble to do, they were still good thoughts. The only thing i hope for is that someone other than myself will be doing the drawings. No one made me do them, but i was the only one that seemed that they would step forward and get them down in the time allotted. The presentations and videos were rather eye-opening. To know that the destruction is still so prevailent is a little alarming. There were photos of messages written on homes byt the owners saying that they will be back. Some said please dont tear down my house, while i am away and waiting for my insurance to kick in really got to me. Some of these people have no choice about going home. I know i would be extremely frustrated and annoyed if the govoernemnt told me i could not return to pick up the broken pieces of my home, i dont know what i would do. Oh well. IT hasn't happened to me yet, and lets just hope it never will.

Design week

Well my new ipod is atleast in the right country and state, but whatever. My first true attemp at teaching myself autocad was a little of a bust. I dont think it would have been too hard to make a title block, but i couldn't successfully set the drawing limits. Oh well, tommorrow is another day, full of autocad amatuers. :) Tommorrow also is the beginning of design week. That time of the year when all the larcs get together in one room and try to design for a week. Yay.:-P It should be interesting i guess. Ans like last year we are required to log the info of what we have done that week, so i will try to use my blog as that. Atleast this way, i wont have to type the info twice :-D

Goodnight.

So my ipod has departed from Indianapolis. Lets hope it comes early this week.

Saturday

Not much news. Kevin Stewart is in town from what i hear, and I went up to Paso yesterday with Jeff. WE found him new shoes, but no shoes for Kara's wedding for me yet. Though i did get quite a pretty dress for $20, i juts need to lose some more weight before it looks just right. :) But i shall try, if not, i'll give it to kara, cause i think it would look pretty good on her.

What movie is this quote from?

"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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Interview

Well actually, i would like to say i went to an interview today, but that wouldn't be true. I went to visit a firm in Santa Maria called Pleinaire, check the link. There are 2 Cal POly alumn that work there and 5 others. They do half residential half commercial work. I should be getting a call tommorrow from the Principal, so here's hoping.

I'm back

Ok, so after winter Quarter when Omar owned my soul and i was consumed by 20 units of class, i now have time to breathe, relax and reflect. I got a 3.495 in the quarter btw so atleast it was not money wasted. I finished Omar project of 150 homes on a 26 acre site and received and A- in the class, not too shabby if i do say so myself. And wonderfully, over spring break, with Christine, i did something i have never done, and something i haven't done in over a decade. I went to Yosemite and i went skiing. Both were awesome, inspiring, and influencing of annual visits. I only fell twice skiing, and there was more pain in the getting up than the fall. It was on the first day of spring and it was snowing at Badger Pass. Ahh, yes, it snowed about 8 inches in the 4 hours of snow. The rides on the ski lift left about an inch of snow on christine's and my laps. Yosemite was more beautiful than i iomagined, and let me tell you, the pictures will never do it justice. Never. It might have helped my veiw of it that it was foggy as we went into the valley and i first veiwed El Capitan when we were directly under it. Wow. If anyone would like to join me on a return visit, you are more than welcome. Oh we got a letter that the lease is being reoffered at the LARC HOUSE. Yay, but unfortunately, two of my roomates will not return. Kelly is going to Italy for the year and Julie will be studying in Athens...no not in Greece, but in Georgia. Good luck to them both. So if you know any LARC females looking for a place for next year...let me know. Ok, I'm out. goodnight and Gracias Cesar Chavez- Don't ask, just look him up, or atleast look at our academic calendar. :-D

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I'm an Artisan...what are you?

New Year

The first update of the quarter, and New year. But in my defense i have been very busy. I am taking 20 units, the most ever and will soon be learning how much work that really entails. I am no longer working at the garden grill. Atleast for this quarter and I am not taking the class for New Orleans, a few less stressors, but that doesn't mean it wont be hard. I am taking the normal design, but with Omar, an Indian design nazi. I am taking a planting design class which is supposed to take just as much time as a normal design class. I am taking professional practice. Environmental decision making and an irrigation class, complete with the rain bird manual. To top it off i am taking Gary Dwyer's infamous portfolio class. One he came out of retirement to teach. But i think he is glad to do it. Usually a hard-ass he gave me two seperate complements today, well i guess it was the same one. But it was said 6 hours aprt. Apparently i am a person good with words and he remembers that from being my prof once, over a year ago. So a pick me up for a school day that was 12 hours long. Well atleast i dont have class till 12 tomm. Sleep in time for me :)

why this day was bad, but got better

Yes, so you know the stories about the student that does something stupid while cutting something for class. slips and has to go to the hospital? WEll that wasnt me. but almost. I was using an exacto knife between class today, the thing slipped and slid right into my finger. pretty deep. I think i actually hit bone and there was blood, that literally poured. im sorry. but i need to vent this. I ran to the sink to get cold water on it, dripping along the way. I was so proud that i got to the sink and was suprised that it didnt hurt, but at some point after watching all the red water, i started getting queasy, and anyone that knows me, knows that is bad. so i got a paper towel around my thumb and sat down eventually having to laydown. Atfer a few min and jackie ministering to my thumb, i felt ok and worked my way to my desk. I decided to clean up the blood. Back i went to the floor(purposefully)and laid there until i decided to go home, cause of how ill i was feeling. but we were supposed to go to coffee with astrid(ironically the teacher in whose class i passed out in last year) today, and i really wanted to go. So i bucked up and went. And it was fun. She does want to go to italy and germany and some other good professors are toying with the idea, so the outlook is good on the trip next year, pending the influx of money. So now i have a big hole in my finger, covered by a bandaid that wont be removed for days as i am scared to see and pass out. And a half finished ravenclaw scarf for harry potter tommorrow night.
Wish me luck

So, since the weekend is officially over and its Tuesday, i thought i would give a qick run down of the week. After a rather trying time of finishing projects and midterms, i got to settle in the next project. A reclaimation of south higuera, we're still in the prelminary conceptual work so its not too stressful. But on the more interesting and lighter side, i was given a very special privilige last week. Well two actually, but we'll get to the other one later. I recieved an invitation to observe Arnold Schwarzeneggar in a city forum about the special election. On thurs night, i drove down to madonna in to find hundreds of protesters at the intersection, with signs and chants everywhere, i "braved" the section in my car and passed hundreds of glares at the entrance. There were men with rifles asking me my name as i drove in, and i picked up an elderly woman there to give her a ride. We then road the rather long entrance road to large building at the back of the ranch. That night, I unknowling had a conversation with the mayor of San Luis Obispo and sat 20 feet away from arnold as he spoke. He was a very Charismatic speaker, and while people would say thats because he is an actor, You cant act that. Plus arnold is not that great an actor, and responses to audience questions cannot be planned. That night i learned many things. I was informed about the propostions, i learned that arnold is a VERY big man, and yes, he is as tall as my dad.(sorry)
So my other privilige was spending the weekend with a good old friend. Doug came to visit and the weekend was filled with Doug hugs laughs and catching up. Thanks for coming doug. I appreciate it. Hmm, its late, and i dont want a motherly email about my sleeping habits, so i bid adieu. haha. Im out.