A few thoughts on approaching 24 ( Read more... )

Something needs to bend. Something needs to change. I had a long, pleasant dinner with my mum and we seem to have patched up. I feel itchy with the need to do something, anything. I want to move furniture but i'll wake up everyone in this and all adjoining houses. I wish i could bake ( Read more... )

I'm aching and bruised, also almost completely useless in a combat situation. Paintball is fun, in that way that it fulfills that odd part that seems to enjoy warfare. It's like playing a video game, but in reality - my ultimate dream would still be for real zombies to appear, so i could hole up in a department store with other refugees and form a ( Read more... )

Truth is that this is a strange time for me. I'm quite frazzled, emotionally. I feel somewhat like i'm stuck in limbo, not sure what's going to happen next, what the next step should be. I was looking through my giant build-up of architecture related rss feeds, and this house just happened to catch my eye - and it took my breath away all over again ( Read more... )

Every year at xmas the family on my mum's side celebrates with dinner and family games with prizes, and the 6 families take turns to organize. This year it was our turn, and it's really kind of interesting how the whole thing was very typical of how our family dynamic works. I have to say that there was a fair bit of raised voices and tempers on ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it's hard to remember why i'm still sticking it out in architecture. You arrive in studio, see the same sterile environment, stare at your uninspired models, and dread another night of unproductive frustration. I almost chose to stay in studio and carry on working instead of going out to meet friends ( Read more... )

So, i went and downloaded this grade calculator thing, and spent some time fiddling - turns out if i want to go from a second lower to a second upper class honours i have to take an extra 3 modules (next semester) and then i have to get an A or above for EVERYTHING (including this semester). On the other hand, as long as i average a B- in ( Read more... )

For architecture students, crit is more or less the end of the semester. Sure, there are still exams left to go, but after the crazed time-warp of submission week, everything feels slow and laid back in comparison. You spend a questionable number of days cooped in the artificial light of studio, marking time only by interruptions from your body for ( Read more... )

Stuck in school on a Sunday afternoon. It's just about the time where you're getting sleepy after lunch, and i've managed to squeeze a design out after two days of painful painful struggling. I'm awfully tempted to just go home, and i started wondering. Would it really make a difference if i stayed? There are, as usual, a dozen more things i could ( Read more... )

I am exceedingly gullible. Nine times out of ten if you say something ludicrous with a perfectly straight face i will believe you. However, i've noticed that i tend to say something like 'Really?' in an extremely excited tone, which i suspect most people interpret as sarcasm. And then when it's obvious that you're really kidding, i'll just be ( Read more... )