Now that I'm finally reading The Favored Circle, I'm starting to wonder how different my attitude toward architecture school would have been had I read this in fourth year when Professor Jackass recommended it.

Geez.

Architecture schools devalue intellectual capital compared to embodied cultural capital, for intellectual capital is simply not essential to achieve success. In their more sardonic moments some architects see this ( Read more... )

I spotted Nick tonight. Apparently he hasn't been eaten by sharks.

Oh, come on, guys - you remember Nick, right? This guy.

Kneeing him in the balls did briefly cross my mind, I confess, but I didn't.

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here's a beaut where if you're at the sink, you have to hope either a) you have no ass, or b) the person at the stove is only using the right burners.


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Nerdy Architecture Humor

I particularly like "I'm too butch to be an interior designer, and too poncy to be an engineer."

TRUE DAT.

"Ray, he got me."

1. He is so very into me ( Read more... )

Met a new guy on okcupid this weekend by the name of Steve. He kind of reminds me of a cross between Nick and Shawn (which makes me chuckle a bit, since Steve was Shawn's "nickname" in Govvie School), although I suspect this is mostly due to his hair. Anyway, we had an excellent time this weekend, and it involved copious amounts of biking, ( Read more... )

Dude, I need to make scale figures of my friends. All of them. A whole army of scale figures! And line them all up on my windows and bookshelves.

Hahaha, from the Entourage party! YES!!