Rather boring day to

Rather boring day today.  I skipped work so that I could get a little more ahead on my studio work.  I went to David Walter’s presentation on John Nolan and Myer’s park at the library… which was surprisingly well done.   He’s an extremely smart guy.  I somewhat shadow in his footsteps around the College of Architecture.  He’s working on his third book at the moment.  I taken him for every possible class that I could… this is my second studio and I took two of his electives.  

His wife is an abstract artist.  She had a showing tonight in the gallery.  Sophia and I walked around looking for all the random objects we could spot in her work.  I talked with her about her methods … it’s quite intriguing actually.  She apparently puts no meaning behind her work at all.  It’s all about brush stroke and color capacity/adjacencies.  I suppose I’m too rooted in my rational thinking to appreciate something like that.  It seems so arbitrary to me.  I mean, she spends months on these paintings ... I guess largely because the oil paints take so long to dry ... but I just find myself asking, “Why?”  

I guess that is why I’m an architect … I like things rooted with theory, but I want them to have a rational.  A clear rational.  That’s like David and I were talking today in studio about my project and I’ve chose to go with this rather expressive vernacular which picks up on the subtle cues around the site relating to the early 1900 structures scattered across the site, but also expressive of the fact that it’s a production facility.  I wanted it to be integrated into the landscape and for the visitors to feel nestled within the grape vines themselves, giving them the glory not he building.  The building will be quite beautiful and articulate, don’t get me wrong … but monumental as I think he was urging me to go with. But he very much understands my argument.

Outside of school things are hectic as always.  I’m battling with a roommate who insists my friends and I are too loud and on going to bed at 10pm every night.  I don’t know how to handle the situation because we are not being that loud.  Last night I just left to keep from arguing … but she’s going to push my buttons the wrong way and I’m just going to go off on her.  She tends to have the attitude that the world should revolve around her in the apartment … noise, air conditioning, heat … you name it.  But I’m probably out of here after next semester anyway.

The family arrives in Charlotte in the AM tomorrow.  My cousin ended up with some tickets to Carowinds so she invited us to go with her.  Should be pretty awesome … I do miss getting to see them ever so often.  

I’m trying to plan what it is I’m going to do upon graduation this coming May.  I DO NOT JUST WANT TO GRADUATE AND START WORKING.  My goal is something life changing like a couple months in Europe or something.  I really do need to just get away from all this crap for a while.  Call it running from my problems if you wish, but this year has been one hell of a year for me.  I feel like I’m grasping at strings all the time.  I used to be such a confident and independent person.  It’s amazing how falling in love changes your perspective on everything … most surely not always for the better.

I bought the new Howie Day CD tonight.  It’s alright if you haven’t listened to it yet … and the hottie on the cover isn’t too bad too look at either.  LOL!!!  But I’m off to watch a recorded episode of Everwood.  I LOVE DVR!  Later my peeps.