What I did on Thanksgiving...

What am I thankful for? That I can do by hand in 5 hours what others take 3 to 4 days to do on a computer. happy Thanksgiving...

Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

If ever a day felt less like Thanksgiving I cannot remember it. Hope everyone has a fun day... eat some turkey for me. And somebody punch Tyler. Not you Kim. You get to do that enough... spread the love. For my Thanksgiving fun, I got to school at 9 and have class from 10 to 12. Then I have 5 hours to draw a 1:5 wall section and then class again. Sucks. Thursday is my long day. I'm not even going to make it to Thomas' today. So it goes...

aside: My lower/middle back is killing me. I have a feeling that it's because my mattress is too soft/unsupportive. I've learned my lesson... never go cheap on a mattress. Anyway, does anyone know if it would do any good to put a piece of plywood or something on top of my box spring? Maybe egg crate foam on the mattress? Any ideas? I'm dyin' here. (not really, mom)

Ok, off I go into the wonderful world of architectural theory.

Cheers, everyone and happy thanksgiving...

"Awwwww! Thanks-GIV-ing?" -Homer J. Simpson

In memorium...

Yesterday my Uncle Dubbie died. I found out just a few minutes ago. I'm very sad and ashamed because I've been thinking of sending him a letter for months now. The last thing he said to me was, "Come on by any time and I'll fix you a steak dinner." I'm so sorry I never wrote. I'm so sorry I never came by. I've never wanted a steak dinner so bad in all my life. I remember when I was a child... maybe 4 years old... we lived on Kely Highway in Ft. Smith, Arkansas and Uncle Dub, a truck driver at the time, would drive by once in awhile in his rig and honk his horn for me. I remember playing in the yard with my dog, Fluffy, and looking for Uncle Dub to drive by. I remember he'd lean out the window and smile and wave. I wasn't as close to him as some of my other family, but he was a constant presence in my life for my entire childhood. He always reminded me a bit of John Wayne. Uncle Dubbie, I love you... I hate saying that now that you can't hear it...

...rest in peace.

On the run...

Hi everyone... things are still in high gear here. I've finished moving all my things into my apartment but haven't had time to clean so no pictures of that yet. I came across these pictures that someone took of me a couple weeks ago and thought I'd show you my smiling, healthy self. I've started smoking a pipe now instead of so many cigarettes. I know it's still not healthy but it's cut my cigarette smoking in half. Hey, I'm trying. Studio is going well, though it is taking everything I have to do well... and the jury's still out on exactly how well I'm doing. For now I'm going to run before I miss the last bus home.

Cheers...

Moving on...uh... over

Hi everyone... well, as I sit to write you it has started snowing outside. I took a look out the window and it's not melting as it hits. It's not snowing hard but if it keeps this up we may have our first white blanket tonight. Anyway...

So I'm moving down the hall into the other basement apartment [with windows] that I've mentioned to many of you before. I got my key today and will start cleaning and painting this weekend. Like I have time for that. I'll make time... I'm moving into a place with windows! How sad does that sound? My new place is almost identical to the one I'm in now but the entrance is at the end of one of the long walls so it doesn't constrict the space by entering on the short end, there is no wall seperating the two areas... it's still two areas but instead of an 18" wall between them (like in my current place) there is a large open archway. There are many more cabinets in the kitchen, the bathroom is 3x the size of mine now (in other words it's normal sized) and there are 5 windows including 3 that make a little alcove on one side of the room. I'll get pictures eventually.

Well, all is well at school... it's kicking my ass but I'm producing good work. I've never done this many drawings... or drawings this good. I'll take pictures in a month or so. As soon as I'm done here it's off to buy cat food and lunch and then back to school. Hope everyone is well... drop a note and say hello. My new address is below. Cheers, everyone...

357 Frank St. #13 <----NEW PART
Ottawa, ON k2p 0x9

when will the hurting stop?

So here it is the end of October... can anyone tell me where it went? I swear last Friday was September... jumpin' jesus on a pogo stick. Last night I slept in my bed for the first time in at lease 3 days... maybe more, not sure. I moved my studio space at school from the first floor with everyone else down to an empty room in the basement with one other guy. It's blissful. No one bothers coming down there to see me so I get alot done. It's made me a bit anti-social and I lose track of 12-hour stretches of time but hey, gotta make sacrifices, right? I don't like people that much anyway.

Speaking of not liking people, it looks like I'm not going to Switzerland because of one man's staggering incompetence combined with his glaring ego and self-concern. The prof putting the trip together was either too lazy or too unintelligent (I have my opinion which) to put together a system of admission for the program. By way of explanation, every study abroad program in the world requires you to at least show your portfolio. This time he took the first 16 names on the list (we put our names and email addresses on a list so he could get ahold of us... this magically turned into the actual "list") and my name was #18. I want to make that man bleed. Or at least some serious bruising. So no Switzerland for me. Instead I think I'm going to take the money I would have spent there and go to Europe for a month at the end of the summer. I'm going to try to get grant funding and make it a research trip for my Masters thesis (don't ask what it is... I have no idea yet).

We got our first snow a couple days ago. It didn't stick, of course, but it was coming down pretty steady for at least a couple of hours. Once it hit the ground it might as well have been rain but it was 32 degrees and snowing two days ago. Here it comes... winter's back!

Ok, I've got to go cram for a mid-term. I'm way overloaded and don't have internet in my new downstairs studio (another reason I get so much done). Also my internet is out at home so I can't make phone calls still. I will get it fixed soon but I am so caught up in school I can't waste the time. Ok, off to study. Hope everyone is doing well. Drop me a line and say hello...