Discovering Perspective

Tomorrow I get to spend six hours in a van with my prof on the way to Boston. Another field trip. I love my program.

The big highlight of course is Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center on the MIT campus. Mekki will tease me about this but it is his only building in America, so we're all super excited. Also on the list are Saarinen, Gropius and Kahn. Superstar tour of architecture.

I caved and bought a memory card for Mekki's digital camera and some NIMH super expensive rechargeable batteries. After lugging around my honkin' huge camera around Italy for three weeks in February, I am attracted to the compactness of the digital. I also tested getting prints a few weeks ago and was very impressed. I still maintain that at least the affordable end of digital cameras do not give me the control to make the decisions I want about my pictures and therefore loses some artistic possibilities, but I just want records of my trip, nothing fancy this time.

Anyways, I'm super exhausted. The last three weeks have been torture but it's productive and I'm getting good work out of it. The Hull project is coming along. The program has been unveiled... an art school. Should be interesting but hard to not just recreate the School of Architecture. We all love it so much.

Design Economics is the token technical course of the term but is turning out to be a load of work but some interesting things are being brought up. Our instructor is Bruce Firestone which some might recognize the attachment to the Sens. I better not let him know that I am a Leafs fan.

That's it for now. NEED SLEEP!!!

Saturday was the annual Fai Cup (ie the architecture soccer tournament). Fourth years had a sad turn out in numbers but we had spirit. It took six rounds of penalty shots to break the tie. My real contribution to the team was Mekki who did an awesome job as goal tender. Of course when it came down to the tie breaking, the second years suddenly decided that all players had to be in architecture. It's funny because they also complained that our goal shouldn't count because we had too many players on the field, yet after their goal, the ref had to kick three of them off the field because they outnumbered us. It's always amazing how many things become 'unfair advantages' when the game is almost over/close. Mekki handed over his gloves and a few tips to Josh who did an excellent job but it pretty much came down to chance of who would be the lucky team to score. So, we didn't win the Fai cup but I had my trophy boyfriend.

I had the pleasure of playing during my Yom Kippur fast, which wasn't as rough as expected. Thanks to Matt I managed to grab something to eat before sunset snuck up on me Friday. He asked if I was planning on fasting and I replied; "oh yeah, this would be Friday wouldn't it?"

I treated Mekki to dinner at Pizza Hut to break the fast and then the plan was to join back with the post game keg party but I decided I really wasn't interested.

This morning Mekki and I picked Mary up and headed downtown for the Cheerio's Heart and Stroke Foundation Walk and had a good time. We were a bit late for the 5km but walked it anyways and were the last ones back but there were still pancakes left though we didn't have the time to fill out the ballots for the draw. Some interesting encounters at the health fair they had. Let's leave it at that.

By the way, if anyone is interested, Mary and her cousin are recruiting for a Shera Halloween group.

...I'm very sore and was too late for the free massage.

I have created a new blog to keep a commentary/photo journal of the progress of my painting for the Painting as Architecture workshop I'm taking.

I intend to take photos along the way and post them there along with some insights of my own and my professor. Comments are always welcome.

I'm exhausted and over-worked and it's only the second week back to school.

I'm stuck going to Hull to visit my project site. Why did it have to be Hull? So I've spent the past week doing site analysis and urban planning. I've also redone the collage for my painting workshop three times and have finally gotten the prof's permission to transfer it to the canvass so I can start painting. I've written and handed in one assignment, two more are due next week. I need to come up with an urban proposal for the site and a massing of my proposed art school.

The fun part is I will be going to Boston next weekend for studio and getting a bunch of art/architecture related tours. It will be my first time to cross that border to that place south of here. Whazitsname?

I will try to keep my thoughts up to date and recorded here but I can't even keep track of them long enough to make use of them let alone record them. But I will try.

First day back to school. Same mad rush as always for the good studio spots and I'm not mean enough to push. But I've finally gotten a window seat, so life isn't too bad. I also got my first choice for profs, so again, life isn't too bad.

First project of the year sounds intereseting and not nearly as easy as you migh think. The Murray and Murray Competition is an all-year drawing project competition for $1000 scholarship. The subject of the drawing this year is Exodus chapters twenty-six and twenty-seven. For those of us who don't know their bible by chapter and verse, this is the passage in which G-d describes the plans of the desert Tabernacle in which the Holy Ark resided during the post-Exodus desert wanderings.

Anyways, lots of interesting things in my copy of the Torah. All the Hebrew text, English translations, and commentary. I look forward to next Monday when I get to see how everyone else has interpreted the project.

For those of you that I haven't assaulted, and those that I have and need reminding, I am organizing a group to participate in the Heart and Stroke Foundation Walk on September 26th.

I am still recruiting walkers and canvassing for donations. I need at least five walkers for the team and am still missing some.

If anyone else is interested in participating or showing their support with donations, please get in touch with me soon.

Whilst camping, the mosquitoes conspired to start rumours. 'How?' you might ask.

I am extremely sensitive to mosquito bites and they decided to attack my hands, probably because I caved and put on insect repellent but avoided my hands because I was about to eat. So the feast began. My fingers are swollen like mad so I had to re-arrange my rings.

I wear two rings. One is a Celtic friendship ring from my parents and the other is a Claddagh from Mekki. I was quite careful to keep the Claddagh on the appropriate hand but had to switch the friendship ring to my left ring-finger.

My goodness, a ring on that finger catches attention fast. So if you see me with a ring on THAT finger, don't assume anything other than that the mosquitoes are out to get me.