had to hose em off

list of things I did today:

1. arose at 6:30 am to be early to scheduled presentation I was to give to the tulane CDRC at 8:30 am. don't worry its not some contagious disease control board, just the Campus Design Review Committee. fyi-"arose" sounds better than "got up."

2. presented campus planning work I have been doing for the University Architect (collette creppell) on landscape plan and other stuff. 2 power point presentations and a lot of talking and a nifty laser pointer.

3 ate lots of the food that was left over fromt he catering for the meeting. yum.

4. went back to my office and answered some emails. finished two renderings in photoshop.

5. interviewed some guy who wants to volunteer to work in the university architect's office. lots of yaking. too much yaking.

6. answered another email. sent out a memo. oooooohhhhhhh a meeeeeeeeemooooo!!!!!

7. went to lunch with amber and josh. lots of yaking--me included. greasy pizza. needlessly angry greasy pizza salesman.

8. faxed something. faxed another thing.

9. called an "arborial consultant" that I am working with. he told me that he would rather talk to me than go into a meeting he was about to step into. cool i said.

10. did some sketches and some drafting. then read about "crime prevention through environmental design." thrilling. how many times can you repeat something before it useless or boring? apparently as many times as you want. crime prevention experts just want to torture us--just when you think they're about to change the subject they repeat what they said like 5 lines earlier. bastards.

11. starting to get sleepy since I got very little sleep last night. 1-2-3-Sleep is not a good idea at work.

12. leaving work at 5pm...haven't done that in like three weeks.


excited about design competition i am doing with serge. wanting to do nothing but that but can't. sleep is forthcomming.


HAPPY HOLIDAYS

you cannot steal my atmosphere

"I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,
Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,
Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and
command, leading not following,
Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty
flesh clear of taint,
Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors,
as to say Who are you?
Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never
obedient,
Those of inland America."

whitman...leaves of grass, 1891

witty whitman

"I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the
whole of the rest of the earth,
I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led
the rest,
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words."

walt whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1891