till dinner

we didn't make it in time to get the dim sum this weekend. i guess we'll try another weekend. we ended up eating at el arroyos instead even though i've sworn of mexican food. i feel like i'm slipping off the deep end into lunacy. i can't imagine ever being a vegan or vegetarian. i have already sworn off fast food and it's just a pain in the ass..not just for me but my friends as well. i feel bloated all the time now. i also feel hungry more often. i just love the whole process and idea of eating good food..and different combinations of good food. i wonder if they invented a drug that would kill your appetite forever, if i could take it.

i've spent all night playing catch up to my paid work. i'm still pretty behind in my school work...already! this is madness. jeremy's supposed to wake up around 7am to go play basketball with our friend adrian. he's been hankering to get out and do sports activities. he's not quite the cave bear i am. :) he crashed out a few hours ago. i'm about to join him...cuz i can't take anymore. as you can see, he's stolen my teddy bear and yellow blankets. time to reclaim. :D

dim sum yum!

we're going out for lunch today at a chinese style buffet. i think the buffet is called "dim sum" for the type of food they serve. basically, they roll around these carts full of little dishes of food and you grab them if you want them. it's good to go in a big group so you can get more bang for your buck.

also on the list for my weekend is to catch up on paid work, catch up on school work, and clean this place up. jerms brought up the idea last night about us volunteering on saturdays at habitat for humanity. i've always wanted to work with that organization for several reasons. one, they're one of the only true people that provide real affordable housing for people on "working wages." second, it's good for architecture students to go out and learn how buildings are put together. i have never volunteered out there though because i can not stand being in the sun. i told him, we could do a soup kitchen thing instead. how lame am i?

anyhow, gonna go shower up now and get ready for lunch.

architecture renderings are dead

after the unforunate accident i call my studio prof of last fall, i've been pretty lucky with getting great studio instructors. last semester, i got a visiting prof from brooklyn with his own firm. this year, i've got this guy who's teaching us about identity and branding.

some people may say i'm copping out of "real design" but i can't help but love this stuff. i love things that i feel are part of a progressive movement. i keep hearing people drone on and on about the power of drafting, water colors, and other renderings/drawings i consider either a waste of time or a lie. i'm sick of people showing me their wonderful water color renderings of buildings and calling that real. that's not real. true, it may encompass the feeling you are after, but that's not what the client's going to get and often, it's not what the building looks like in real life.

i strongly believe in the power of virtual reality and 3d modeling. i feel strongly about building in a 3d-reality. if architects keep holding onto this illusion called "renderings" they're going to be surpassed by this reality called "software."

everything hurts

having jerms here is weird. it's actually pretty unsettling in a good way i suppose. i was living by myself for the first time in my life this summer...and now i have my brother and jerms in the house and its a nonstop barrage of company. i like it of course but it's weird considering just a few weeks ago, i came home to just my cats.

jerms is a very bad distraction for me. living with him is like constantly living with your best friend so it's so tempting to have fun all the time. i have to keep forcing myself to separate and do work. tomorrow is my early day and i have quite a bit of time after it until my next class. it's so tempting to have jeremy come pick me up and crash until my afternoon class. however, i'm thinking of staying on campus and trying to do some work.

my body is killing me. i think i've been feeling the aftershock of this past weekends labor intensive move. i've been horribly tired all the time and have continued back and neck pains. and for some reason, the left side of my tongue hurts. pain.. pain pain...

we all went out ot eat ice cream tonight. it was a short little adventure but ice cream is a must. :) it's funny how all of us from A&M ended up living in Austin. i guess after living in nowhere for four or five years, it's just natural to run to somewhere as fast as possible. :)

the new world

my mind is reaching its demise. i fight with myself every day. disappointment, self-loathing, self-pity, and self-correction. nothing is sacred and nothing is above anything in my world, but everything is always better on the other side...where i do not reside.

i have been grappling with the topic of possession in my head for the past few weeks. i've been trying to rationalize the ideals of possession and companionship. i'm trying to rationalize the ideas of monogamy and commitment. i'm still fighting with myself wondering if there is a solution..if there is some way i can change my entire world without losing sanity.

queen of the damned be damned

we rented Queen of the Damned this Friday before Jeremy's move.
i was actually pretty excited about renting it despite
the horrible reviews and Anne Rice's refusal to make comments on it.

i was horribly dissapointed in every way possible. i didn't think it could be worse than interview with a vampire. i liked interview in a lot of ways but overall found a strong disconnect between it and the novel iteself. i felt like they didn't even need anne rice's storyline on this. they could have just made up their own bull shit plot and ran with it.

one of the most beautiful things about anne rice's vampire series is the intricate weaving of personalities, story lines, and characters that have developed over centuries. this crappy shitty movie was like watching some horrible mtv video. and what was with the crappy voice overs? i don't know what anne rice was thinking when she signed away the rights to her story. there was just so much they could have done with this novel, it's such a shame they did nothing with it.

so much for quality entertainment.

the move: part1

well it's been absolute mayhem around here for the past three days. this weekend was jerm's move-in weekend. we did a lot of driving, a lot of waiting, a lot of loading, unloading, and sorting. we're still nowhere near finished. we've finally got enough stored away so that everyone has some walking room. we've prolly still got another week till everything is situated. unfortunately, we've got two refrigerators now and so one is sitting in the entryway blocking a direct passage. we've also go two dining room tables, two couches, and three recliners. hopefully his parents can come this weekend and at least take away the fridge.

it all started friday when jeremy came down from austin. we took apart my bed and went around storing its contents throughout the condo. we also made room in my room and the living room for the massive invasion of his furniture and boxes. saturday, we woke up early early to drive to ft. worth
with Adrian (our friend), and John (and his caravan of friends). jeremy, adrian, and i were in one car. we actually left first and drove directly to the uhaul place 30 minutes away from jeremy's apartment. this is when the trouble began....to be continued.