A dream

I had a dream that my family and I were given the ability to go back in time, knowing what we know now, which made my family and I appreciate more in life (you know, the simple things), and gave us an economic advantage of being able to prepare for the harder economic times of the present.

Then I realized how foolish and wishful that was, and that I can go ahead and do that now while I'm preparing for a future time and a destination, unknown.

music

Though I hear you call my name

and knock, knock on the ol' front door,

I made sure the door was locked,

so I can hear ya shout,

'Hey let the hostage out.'

Boy, you sure seem so upset, talkin' through the megaphone,

While I'm creepin' by the curtain,

and pretending I'm just crawling to the kitchen

and pretending I'm just crouching in the cupboard

and pretending I'm not home.

-Heywood Banks

I am feeling this song. I've not made an attempt to really get away for my apt. for a while and I've been feeling pretty content, or too lazy to do anything about it. Also I've been stressing about term papers and semester tests coming up soon, Ahhh! I usually don't stress this much, I mean I do stress, but not this much, and yet I have a calm, cool (pretty much lazy) exterior.

I should maybe change the title of my blog to "I need to get myself into gear." But, in my defense, it helps to write about it and get it out of my head rather than hole up and 'pretend that I'm not home.'

Also another musically related topic. Ever notice how often the songs you hear on the radio that are "top hits" are either track 3 or more often, track 4 on the album they were released with? Strange isn't it? It's like they're putting their home run hitter fourth to bat: They load the bases with their single hitters and then send em' home with a grand slam. I'm not sayin it's always track 4 but it does happen often. So often in fact, that their might be a a conspiracy about it and how record companies are always promoting the 4 song in an album for some insane reason. lol

Eurotrip

This was a Art History class project that I was working on in which we needed to try and plan a trip to Europe so we could visit a bunch of "objects" from Art History.... for lest than $1000 dollars. So here are some websites that might help in trying to plan your trip, I mean hey, $1000 dollars is really good, but there was no way it could be done and still afford the overseas plane ticket, So the trip my group planned started in Rome, Italy and included travel admission prices, some tours (with guides) and hotel, not food though.

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A subway pun.

I have a graphic t-shirt that advertises Pepsi Fuze Green Tea which happens to be green. Today I realized that It's a green T that advertises Green Tea, haha.

In other news, I'm going to see if I can't get my car taken in to replace the tailpipe for once.

Also, I've been trying to cheer up my blog by posting things other than about my faults, failures, and sorrowful feelings. Hopefully the tailpipe story was a fun laughable story, and didn't make me sound like a complainer pants.

Tail pipe dilema

So the tailpipe on my car had rusted through back by the muffler but I had decided to let it go for a while because I wasn't in the mood or financial standings to have it replaced. It was a little bit loud because the air was escaping the exhaust system in the wrong place, but not unbearable.

Well, last weekend, I went for about a hundred mile road trip. And while I was driving on the Inter State the problem got worse, because the rusted hole in the pipe turned into a complete detachment from the muffler and the pipe started to drag on the ground. Yea, cool, I know. You might say I was lookin' pretty awesome. But the fun doesn't stop there. I stopped on an exit ramp to try and tie it back up to the car with a key chain lanyard because... that was all I had. FAIL. Apparently my tie job was severely insufficient, because I could soon, again, hear the jingle of dragging metal back on ground. Luckily though, I managed to reach my destination without further complications.

Then, as my friends and I were leaving to go tailgating, we decided to take my poor car because his car had the same problem as mine did and was louder (at the time) and her car had little to no gas. Her family would be taking their suv but needed to follow me to get to the stadium parking lot. So we doubled back around the block to get into the alley where they were parked so we could have them follow us. And as I turned into the ally there was an explosion of sound and all of the sudden, under the new extremely loud sound of my exhaust-less engine we could hear my entire tailpipe dragging along the roughly paved ally. NOW, I swear that the car can be heard from two blocks away just while idling, and five blocks when I give it gas to accelerate. It seems to sound like an old tractor which makes sense because they sort of have a lack of exhaust systems. oh, and the funny thing is that the muffler is still attached to the car and can be seen from the rear as if there were a working exhaust system.

I pledge

i pledge to spend more time in the kitchen, and more time at the gym, thus having a healthier life style. i also promise to spend more time doing homework than watching youtube and cartoon network. okay, I'm off to work. maybe I'll have a story from it when i get home, seems like there's always a good story from subway.

Stilll chasing those dreams.

Tonight I had a presentation with some "higher ups." I'm not sure what all their titles are, but I believe some of them were architects. I was really just excited to have some real world experience in presenting a design project that I helped work on. What we did, was to try and solve some of the spacial and programmatic issues that the Terrace Hill Carriage House has with some of their everyday use, based on some information that the staff gave us and our own observations by redesigning the space inside the building proposing a new addition to the south (less prominent) facade in order to preserve the historical character of the north and east facades. I know that's a run on sentence but it seemed to flow as I wrote it and I'm not going to break it up and reword it. It was a really fun project and I would be even more excited if they decided to implement any of the ideas that were specific to my group's project.

In other news, I've decided to continue to pursue my passion for architecture by taking a class on how to use the program called Revit (sp?) which is a three dimensional design program. I've been kind of self learning and trying to design what I'm calling a "kitchen house" in Google sketchhup, but I haven't gotten very far with it since it's not "due." Ha ha, even if there was a due date, I'm not sure I would have worked on it this much.