Oh so busy...

Hi everyone... sorry it's been so long. I do my best to keep my updates regular but this past couple of weeks has been really fast and busy. Time is flying by and it seems I have twice as much to do as time to do it in. I'm keeping up okay so far but I think I may have to pull my first all-nighter Sunday to get a couple drawings done for Monday. So it goes... it was coming eventually anyway.

School is interesting this year. Studio is very demanding and I'm having to work very hard to keep pace but I'm alright so far. I'm also taking a theory seminar that I think I will enjoy and a technology seminar that is nothing short of a joke. We learn good, useful information in there but it's information they should be teaching 2nd years. I mean c'mon... it's called Advanced Building Systems and on the sixth week we're going to be talking about caulking and sealants. It's painful. I've sat through this exact class at OU 3 or 4 times, at least. Now here I am again. Well, as long as he doesn't make his tests difficult it will be a nice space-filler and let me concentrate more on studio.

We finally found out about our Switzerland trip and it looks like I may go. I can't know for sure until my loans come through (US screwed my paperwork up again... imagine that) but I think I'll be able to borrow enough to go. It's going to be a spectacular trip. You can see pictures of the place I'm going here. It's a place called Bern, Switzerland and it's in the middle of the Alps. I'm excited (amongst many other reasons) because it's only 35 miles up the road from the most beautiful place I've ever seen, Interlaken, Switzerland. We're leasing space in the Bern Culture Production Center, an old building the Swiss government leases out to artists and such. We'll spend 3 months studying philosophy and theory and drawing. We'll travel to a handful of places around Europe and towards the end our Italian director is going to come over and tour us through Italy for a week. It promises to be an excellent trip. It's not cheap but it's worth it. Like I said, I won't know for sure for a few more weeks but it looks highly possible. This opens up excellent opportunities for Christmas (and early birthday) gifts if anyone would like to help me gear up for that trip. I'm going to need to buy things like a camera, a good backpack, a Eurorail pass, monthly bus passes, etc. If you'd like to help out, please get ahold of me and I can help you help me.

It's getting cold here already. The trees are changing and it's ranging from 40 at night to 60-70 during the day. The Canadians tell me the trees are about a month early... they usually don't change until next month. It's going to be a bad winter, I think. It's raining today. I'm supposed to go help Thomas move the last load of stuff from his apartment to his house today and then we're supposed to play an architecture soccer tournament. I don't know if the tourney is going to happen. I really hope not. I'm not any good, I am going just to be social... but I really have no desire to play soccer in the cold rain. If it were one or the other, sure... I can do rain or I can do cold. But I really don't like soccer enough to go out in the cold and rain. We'll see. If not soccer, I have plenty to do at studio for the day... heck, for the entire weekend.

Hm... what else...? Nothing worth mentioning I guess. I'm going to finish this cup of coffee and head out to meet Thomas and go move stuff. Fun. Hope everyone is well...

peace