Thanksgiving and Finals

Picture of the Day] Final 1/8" = 1'-0" and 1/2" = 1'-0" Section Models. Yes, I did cast that concrete wall.

Mood] Tired, but hopeful

Weather] Sunny with a high of 24

Currently] In the Ambassador Cube

Quote of the day: "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

The acappella concert was amazing! I acted totally completely ridiculous, but oh well. It was fun and all in the performance. :) We have DVDs now of the concert, but I hope we end up putting it online. That would be amazing! Then I could link you guys further to it.

Thanksgiving was great. I think that it was too short really. I got together with some friends and rocked out on Rock Band, had some delicious food (and even new food like REAL cranberries. It was a lot different than the canned kind!), and spent time with family. This Thanksgiving I actually ended up visitting my boyfriend's family, so it was a nerve-racking situation, but it ended up turning out nice. I met his grandmother and stayed with his parents.

Now FINALS. I stayed up all night pretty much the night before review (I got 2 hours of sleep) which is something that I never do, so I was dead tired for the actual review. Never a good thing. Really need to make sure you sleep. Anyway, that's over with now and the reviewers had some pretty good things to say (albeit short because I think they feared I was going to throw up on them I was so nauseous feeling!). I'm going to meet up with my studio section one more time at my professor's work downtown and we're going to have lunch together, which should be fun.

I had three finals yesterday, Nietzsche Philosophy class with Anam, Structural Steel Analysis with all my architecture mates and Mechanical and Electrical Building Systems. It was pretty rough, but it was overall, a very lifting feeling. I only have Architectural Programming this Thursday. We had a group project for Architectural Programming as well and now that's over with. We turned it in on Monday (it was a booklet with a lot in it that I don't want to detail anymore. Ha ha ha.)

PHEW. SO, now I gotta focus on finishing a take-home final for Mechanical and Electrical Building Systems (yeah, 2 tests for that class), and studying for Programming and I should be good!!!! HOORAY! Then home home home, but of course, not before some shopping downtown! I need to catch up on Christmas shopping...

:D
Jaye

P.S. Chicago ended up getting Boondock Saints II: All Saint's Day, but I haven't had the chance to go watch it! GAHHHH! And now it's only in certain theatres! :( SAD!

ACAPPELLA CONCERT TONIGHT AT 8:00 PM CENTRAL!!!!

Short post today! Not even my normal stuff. Just this website! Here's where you can stream our acappella concert LIVE tonight. 8:00 PM central!!! Disclaimer: Guys group (who are first and will probably sing from 8:00-8:30 are singing some pretty...scandalous stuff, so if you have sensitive ears or sensitive siblings' ears, then beware!)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/a-cappella-concert-save-your-fork-there-s-pie


Thanks for all your support guys. :) You've been awesome!!! Enjoy!!!!

Studio and Acappella : Enjoyable Pains

Picture of the Day] My 1/2" = 1'-0" model that I am working on. Needs a lot done, but not bad. I'm actually going to redo it. The pink foam will be a cast concrete wall. The cardboard top will be wood and the white ramp will also be wood. Probably MDF.

Mood] Anxious

Weather] Sunny with a high of 54

Currently] In the Ambassador Cube

Quote of the day: "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."

It's been a LONG time since I blogged and we know what that means - lots of work. I've been trying to work my butt off to finalize everything for studio. Even though it's not even Thanksgiving yet, we only have a few weeks left to kick it in high gear and get these ideas out and on paper. I've been doing the finalizing of floor plans and sections so far. Monday I need to have a 1/2" = 1'-0" scale model of a portion of my building with the framing done. pictures to come of that, to be sure! This week I've been stressing out about registration, which I tried to complete this morning. There were a couple problems, but I e-mailed my advisor, so hopefully it'll get fixed. The main issue was that, since we are staggered for our registration (meaning Graduate the 1st day, Undergraduate 5th year the 2nd day, etc...) ALL of the third years are trying to register on the nose at exactly 8:30 AM (as of this morning). SO, by the time I logged in and tried to register at 8:30:30? maybe? the electives were pretty much filled up. This isn't too big of a problem considering that people are bound to drop a lot of the classes in pursuit of ones that they actually want, but still, it was a bit of a irksome adventure.

Acappella has gone AWESOMELY this week. We're SO prepared for our concert, "Save Your Fork, There's Pie!", on the 20th, so that is going to be FANTASTIC! Our facebook group already has over 200 confirmed guests AND we have people flying in from all over (mostly friends and family) to hear us. We're going to be streaming LIVE if we can manage, so I'll definitely post up that link for you guys with instructions as soon as I can! It's going to be SO good. Crown Joules (our guys group) goes on first followed by X-Chromotones (our girls group, holla!), and then a short intermission where we're gonna be sellin' pie and other assorted awesome goodies (T-Shirts, YEAH) to help raise money for our group. Then we'll have Techtonics (our co-ed group) finalize! I'm sooo pumped.

Sorry that's all for now. I gotta run! But I'll try and post again as soon as I can.