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sitting in front of the fire right now. i made it. first i carried in a whole lot of wood because i had a dream last night that someone did, and made a huge pile next to the fireplace and i didn't have to keep going out for more. good plan, because now i can just keep throwing more and more wood onto the fire. even though the wood takes up a good amount of floor space, i think it's definitely worth it.
so what else. things are pretty different right now from the last time i wrote anything substantial in here (basically i think i wrote once since last May and it was about pitchfork). upcoming: i go to barnard in January! that's right, no more hamilton...moving to the city. i'm a little sad to be leaving the things that are very familiar to me there, particularly brad and walter and goldberg, but i don't really associate them with hamilton at all, so leaving there shouldn't change too much. also, the plan is to go to china with jenn right before i start school in January. that is going to be so great, and i can speak zhongwen and see how it goes over.
that was pretty conventional, i really must say. which is a little funny i think, since it's not like anyone who reads this doesn't talk to me regularly.
outside in the winter it seems like everything is grey. of montreal tells the story: in their bereavement all of her colorful friends turned to a milky grey depressing blend which incidentally made Grey feel inane so he set off to find a less trite identity one as stunning and bold as Scarlet used to be. that reminds me of winter. but i think even though everything seems grey you can still actually see all the colors mixed in there. the snow looks white. but actually, there's purple blue yellow red orange snow too. and the trees....wow. i mean you think trees in the winter are grey and brown, which they are. but what are grey and brown? the trees are so purple sometimes it's amazing. and there's this big beautiful weeping willow in my backyard, it's trunk is yellow red and orange. and the further out on the branches you look, it gets blue and green. it's almost like grey and brown aren't colors in themselves, they're like mixes of all different colors. but i guess that's what they all are. it's like they all just blend from one to the next to another. even black is colorful. at night everything is still colorful, it's just in a different light. i think i could probably talk forever about this...haha an art major taking a break from school...
so i'll be studying architecture at barnard. that is so exciting to me. there are some architects who have a background in art, and i always think their stuff is amazing. imagine how a city would look if all the buildings were designed not only to be functional, but to be beautiful. walking through a city would be so amazing. of course there are buildings like that, and they are really wonderful. i want to always design things like that. taking the beauty of the building and it's surroundings into mind too. to make it look like it somehow belongs there. when things just make sense, when they just fit together it feels so complete, so sure. like when you're walking in a forest, you don't think about how strange it is that there are huge wooden protrusions jutting out from the ground all around you. because it makes sense, because they belong there. why can't that theory be applied to buildings and cities? of course it wouldn't be exactly like a forest, because it'd be a city, and they are very different places. but the idea of how the forest just makes sense, how it's not strange, it's just amazing...that idea i'd like to see applied to architecture.
so, either way there's a lot of interesting stuff.
so what else. things are pretty different right now from the last time i wrote anything substantial in here (basically i think i wrote once since last May and it was about pitchfork). upcoming: i go to barnard in January! that's right, no more hamilton...moving to the city. i'm a little sad to be leaving the things that are very familiar to me there, particularly brad and walter and goldberg, but i don't really associate them with hamilton at all, so leaving there shouldn't change too much. also, the plan is to go to china with jenn right before i start school in January. that is going to be so great, and i can speak zhongwen and see how it goes over.
that was pretty conventional, i really must say. which is a little funny i think, since it's not like anyone who reads this doesn't talk to me regularly.
outside in the winter it seems like everything is grey. of montreal tells the story: in their bereavement all of her colorful friends turned to a milky grey depressing blend which incidentally made Grey feel inane so he set off to find a less trite identity one as stunning and bold as Scarlet used to be. that reminds me of winter. but i think even though everything seems grey you can still actually see all the colors mixed in there. the snow looks white. but actually, there's purple blue yellow red orange snow too. and the trees....wow. i mean you think trees in the winter are grey and brown, which they are. but what are grey and brown? the trees are so purple sometimes it's amazing. and there's this big beautiful weeping willow in my backyard, it's trunk is yellow red and orange. and the further out on the branches you look, it gets blue and green. it's almost like grey and brown aren't colors in themselves, they're like mixes of all different colors. but i guess that's what they all are. it's like they all just blend from one to the next to another. even black is colorful. at night everything is still colorful, it's just in a different light. i think i could probably talk forever about this...haha an art major taking a break from school...
so i'll be studying architecture at barnard. that is so exciting to me. there are some architects who have a background in art, and i always think their stuff is amazing. imagine how a city would look if all the buildings were designed not only to be functional, but to be beautiful. walking through a city would be so amazing. of course there are buildings like that, and they are really wonderful. i want to always design things like that. taking the beauty of the building and it's surroundings into mind too. to make it look like it somehow belongs there. when things just make sense, when they just fit together it feels so complete, so sure. like when you're walking in a forest, you don't think about how strange it is that there are huge wooden protrusions jutting out from the ground all around you. because it makes sense, because they belong there. why can't that theory be applied to buildings and cities? of course it wouldn't be exactly like a forest, because it'd be a city, and they are very different places. but the idea of how the forest just makes sense, how it's not strange, it's just amazing...that idea i'd like to see applied to architecture.
so, either way there's a lot of interesting stuff.