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0 Higher

The new Saturdays mini CD (released only in the UK of course) really isn't the greatest thing in the world, but the two singles, including this one called 'Higher,' are really good pop hits.

Well I'm in the middle of another all-nighter. I know it's going to hurt tomorrow, but it'll be worth it. I think I'm going to have some things for my professor that he'll actually like. Concerning my work with 'Olympic Caliber Performance,' I've divided it into Human + Bike, Curves, and Olympic Spaces. The way it works is that
the space occupied by a human on a bike creates a volume that is regulated by a set of curves, and these curves along with the changes in scale from human to human plus bike create formulas that can be used to alter current spaces to better accomodate for bikes and their travel patterns. So now I'm pretty excited about that.
Though honestly this entire weekend has been very frustrating. It was good to have an extra day in the weekend, though in architecture student land that equates an extra day to work on your design. Not to mention I still have stuff to do for other classes. Notheless I have to believe I can do it and only improve. I can only go higher and higher.

P.S. - the picture here is my desk!

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0 I Cannot Be Saved

A nice song by an Australian singer-songwriter. i feel I could sing this song to my design professor.

So I'm going to take this moment to just think a little. Though I really shouldn't be thinking right now, per the way the research is supposed to be done, I want to take a couple things into perspective.

First - my house. Good Lord it is a hot mess. I have to do dishes, clean the living room, do laundry, throw the trash, and plan my meals for the week

Second - studio. I have to clean my desk, put together the binder of work, and group together the things that need to be returned home.

Next - Italian class. I need to do the reading for Wednesday and buy the course packet.

Following - Construction. Pick a building to make pretty pictures of.

After That - Environmental Controls. Finish the readings, do the lessons in lighting, buy black paper for the lab project, take the photos for the lab project, start the lab project.

Not to be forgotten - VisComm. Take photos of the coke bottle, draw over them in AutoCAD, transition this to Rhino and put on a box.

Culminating in - Design. 15 drawings, a movable model, plus a starting version of my final poster, which I just realized may need to be entirely finished by that day...

Topping it all off- exercise. I've been good about it this week, but I need to keep it up.

I can say overall that there is a small part of me that wants to die, another part that wants to quit, but overall my mind and body are saying 'show this bitch what you're made of.' So I'm picking that option.

I want to post more concerning my architecture work but until this weekend passes I doubt I'll get into much detail. Plus, I have some really cool photos to upload and this will now be a photo blog! I just need the extra day to breathe (right after I finish scheduling my sleep). I cannot be saved at this current moment in time, but soon enough I'll make it through on my own.

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0 Strip Me

I'm a bit disappointed in this song from Natasha Bedingfield. She has such an amazing voice, but its hidden beneath over production to create a sound that is not only dumb and unnecessarily popular, but is behind the times. It's very annoying b/c I felt her last single was excellent though it was never played on the radio. This song is a hit-or-miss tune. It could have huge success or do dismally.

That's how I feel today. We had our first round of desk crits today with our professor Toms. I'll call him Toms b/c he always wears the shoes and has a very good sense of style. He also has a lot of background in computer design and works for a very famous architect who is very in right now (though honestly I don't see why). Anyway, ---I just realized my point of giving some anonymity fell flat as I talked about him in the last post. I'm still calling him Toms. Today's desk crit was concerning the work we had done over the weekend regarding our design topics. We each came up with a topic of research on Friday concerning velodromes in some form or fashion. My research is dealing with what I labeled Olympic Caliber Performance: what are the design guidelines one needs in order to create the optimum training facilities that support a velodrome?

I did a great deal of information gathering over the weekend, but was unable to synthesize everything that I wanted to (i.e. bad time management). Part of that was my decision to go to an architecture party (b/c you NEVER miss one of these things, so many great things happen) where I got drunk and had quite an excellent time, though something I had caused me to be hungover all day Sunday! I'm talking woozy until 8pm, and even then I went to bed at 10pm. It was worth it though, met some lovely lesbians, including one bisexual who I explained to that I am a pomosexual (post modern). It was quite fun.

Back to architecture, my task for Wednesday is to create a 3D model representing a bike's turn radius. Sounds easy enough, though I'm going to be attempting this with a program that I've never used before! Nonetheless, new goal: master 3DS Max. After that I have to create a physical model describing the path of a person inside a locker room with a bicycle, without actually designing one physically. That is going to be sooooo abstract. On top of this, I need to keep going through research as well as come up with even more ways of abstracting the information. It's like I told a studio mate of mine, it's as if he said: "make what you think I'm expecting of you, and then create more." Ohhhh yeah.

(4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 4.0..........) >

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0 First Day of Class!

Just one of my favorite songs, so I really wanted to post it.

Today was the very first day of class! This means the log is going to get much much MUCH more interesting. Yayyy. Today I began with VisComm III (8am!!), which I'm actually retaking b/c I had one too many absences. Either way, I was relieved to find that the class will actually be easier this time around, and that if I attend every single class then I am basically guaranteed an A. Also, having it contributes to my Design class, which I'll explain a bit. Later on in the day I had Italian Composition and Conversation. Currently I'm on the waitlist for the class, but I can say with 90% certainty that I'm going to get into the class, as I'm first on the waitlist of two people (the other person on the list was there as well). It was funny b/c she and I were fist pumping every time that someone's name was called and they were absent. My favorite thing about it though was that I understood everything she said! It was a big confidence booster after I had a lackluster summer in regards to my Italian language development. I think overall it's going to be an excellent class; hopefully I'm officially accepted in the next couple of days.

Design.

Design V began with a lottery, where each instructor gives an introduction to the work that will be done in the upcoming studio, including Interior Design though no one else can take their course. My professor this semester is Clay Shortall. Don't try googling him - I've already tried and have found little existence of an architectural presence online. Anyway, he currently works for Zaha Hadid (super well-know architect of our generation b/c of her flowy looking buildings of which I question the validity of) as the only remote worker in the entire firm, specializing in digital work and fabrication. It's going to be an excellent year, not only because of the work I'm doing in the realm of technology this semester, but also b/c of the design program we are given. Essentially, we are doing work concerning a velodrome. For those of you unaware with the sport of track cycling, velodromes are arenas that are specifically designed to optimize the speed at which the bikes travel on the track and reduce the amount of centrifugal forces occur on the bike, not to mention the work done to maximize the necessity of perpendicularity concerning the cycle in regards to the track. I'll write more tomorrow; currently, I'm three sheets to the wind as it is officially my roommate's birthday! Nevertheless, this will be quite an interesting semester. Because if this ain't love, why does it feel so good?

---Apparently I had finished this last night...----

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0 Not Giving Up On Love

Less than a week until classes start and I cannot be any happier to begin . The past couple of days have been filled with hanging out with friends who have returned to our lovely city to begin another year of studying, socializing, and partying of course; but even more so I really wish to start this year so I can delve into the things I really love, architecture and school. It's funny because most people dread school. I've never really felt that way about my relationship with my academics - although in the past few years it hasn't been as favorable to me grade-wise as it has been in the past, I still enjoy classes and learning nonetheless.

It seems this semester especially everyone is buckling down and focusing on school, which of course remains to be seen, but it helps that my friends are in the same position as me so that I don't feel guilty about ignoring them to do work. I've actually felt that way very often: I used to schedule time in for my friends every week and no matter what I was doing I would hold my appointments. This year I can't do that; I need to focus on my many other obligations: arch school, part-time job, organizations, student government, etc.

For now I'm just here doing laundry, cleaning up and preparing for what will have to be my greatest year on record. There's a part of me that's afraid of putting down so much on the year and taking the risk, but if I don't take it now it's not going to happen later and I know I have the abilities to do it. I'm not going to give up on my love.

-Design your day ^^

p.s. - Once I get financial aid in and buy my camera there will be tons of photos on this blog - excited!

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0 Please Don't Let Me Go

A nice british bloke with a nice british pop song.

Today was another wonderful day of sleeping in and doing much of nothing. I sent the wonderful 1st year intro design thingy to the president of the organization I'm in so hopefully that will work out nicely and other than that really did nothing else architecture related today. Don't worry though, school is in a week and a half, there will be more than enough to post about.

I went to Torchy's Tacos today with my friend I'll call Shell. Shell used to be bffs with A, but not they don't talk to each other. Yeah, pretty Gossip Girl. Anyway, had a Fried Avocado taco, which was vegetarian deliciousness and not over fried like I was afraid it was going to be. I've been on a diet recently that had been helpful at removing the 10lbs I gained last month (7.5 off so far, yes!) so I thought it'd be ok to eat this. That and I've exercised every day since the start of the month so I feel I've accomplished something. All I know is that I'm going to increase the intensity so I'll only have to do the same duration but get even more out of my work outs. Awesome!

After that I went to Wheatsville, number 1 favorite place to shop for groceries and managed to spend right over 13$ for some produce (essentially all the money I had left...). Either way, after that I don't remember doing much of anything except for working out. Following that, I went to A's before I had work for some chisme (go look it up). Basically a guy from back home was leading her on about wanting her for a booty call but then just joking about it, all culminating in a phone sex that he was supposedly kidding about, as per his message the next day. She then preceded to call him out on it and he then freaked out and defriended her. Poser.

Work was nice sans the fact that there have been almost no customers since people have been moving out. I just take comfort in the fact that we have a week and a half until school starts and then things are sure to pick up. I'm quite excited about that for sure. At least I tried out some new flavors that were made, Guinness (which was alright, but a bit bitter so it needs to be tweaked), Raspberry Jalapeno (much more delicious than it sounds), and Peanut Butter and Jelly (top notch).

Also in random news the guy who took me out of the funk I had earlier this summer is straight and has a gf. So I have to let that go. Oh well, there will be many more in architecture this year. Let's hope for the best.

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0 We Are Sex Bob-omb

Before I get into Scott Pilgrim and all it's awesomeness, let me tell you about my day.

Well I woke up at noon which was very refreshing, finally sleeping in for the first time in a while and enjoying the feeling! I think I'm going to do that again tonight b/c I had some wicked vivid dreams. I remember one clearing involving some movable chairs - it was all very surreal. Anyway, I was hoping to go into work today, but sadly it's been slow so the whole process has been very painful and workless (neologism!). Either way, I went to my friend A to see her new place at it was very impressive. The place was previously inhabited by an art student at the university, so the walls were excellent shades of goldenrod, fuschia, teal and navy. I didn't stay for very long as another friend of mine, we'll call him JJ, asked me to help him unpack. I liked his place as well, though it wasn't as unique as my other friend's it was still a level of acceptable for students to inhabit. After that I help my friend and her boyfriend/my ex-roomie move stuff to his new place which was fun as well. Also had delicious quesadillas at a local cafe while my friend had carrot cake.

Moving on to Scott Pilgrim. OMG. What an excellent film. It made me think of all the things I grew up with as a little kid and the stuff I still watch now, talk about super awesome happy fun time for sure! I could go on and on and on about every single thing that happened in that movie but I don't want to ruin it for anybody, all I have to say is that every single thing about that movie is awesome, especially the cast. Talk about hot! Though I've never been big on Michael Cera's looks, he seems like a really cool guy to hang out with but I don't find him attractive. Maybe he looks better in real life lol. All I know is that I want that kitty mug, soooooo bad. That, and I want to become a sex bob-omb. Goodnight.

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