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December 1, 2004
Cut Glue Paint
I'm in a frenzy of model-building this week, for our crit on Friday (arch school speak: a crit is when you set up your work all nice-like and everybody piles on and gives you what-for about it. This is actually desireable because most of the time the feedback you get comes from the teacher or your friends, so on this one day you get to hear a lot of other responses to your work and learn from them. Or have your heart broken if you're a fragile flower).
I designed this building with a curved floor, and that curved floor has been giving me headaches all week, but tonight I had a revelation: I can just fudge it and not have it be perfect, because it's better to be done than not done. Also, the fussing was getting stupid. So tomorrow morning I will glue my columns in place, make my fudged floors and ramps, and figure out my weird wall problem, and with any luck I will be mostly done. I have only one class tomorrow so I can work all day on the project, with one sidetrack to turn in a paper for another class.
If I can get All Done tomorrow, I can relax on Friday and just clean my workspace, maybe colour in my lettering work or sit in the warm spot in the library (most of the library is bizarrely chilly) and knit on the baby romper I'm working on.
In other news, my car has engine problems right now, caused by the idiot mechanics in Alameda (who I was trying out and will never go to again -- first they tried to double-charge me for a timing belt change and then they installed it incorrectly and caused all kinds of damage), so I've been getting around on foot and by bus, which adds a certain slowness to the day. Tonight I had to go to the art store downtown, and afterwards I decided to forgo waiting for the bus in the freezing cold and walk home. Then Rosie and I went for a walk, so I had about an hour of solid walking. It felt good. I recommend walking briskly in chilly weather. You don't get overheated, and you get decent exercise.
So I've been appreciating the challenge of being carlese, but I have to say that as soon as I get my car back I will give up on the 10 mph bus to school.
Posted by ayse on 12/01/04 at 9:01 PM