weirdly, I adore our weekly office meetings, because our studio is increasingly getting nothing but interesting projects, and they all come up to be claimed at the meetings. But it's a mixed blessing,...goes by, the thought of leaving the Wonder That Is My Job to work at a bog-standard firm becomes more and more incomprehensible. Too bad it turns out my dream job is in, y'know, Mississippi. **

So last week I had the pleasure of attending a house dedication for Marvin and his daughter. It was the first house I worked on down here, and it went through a lot of starts and stops, but they're...of the blitz-build-as-academic-model , which I'm hoping to turn into a paper/case study of sorts, but you all already know that, and I'll get back to you when I actually make something out of it

8 AM. 5 PM. Amazing day. Today was so very communal and "Amish barn raising." We are all talking about teaming up to dry in all our houses because it just went so very quickly and smoothly...him. tomorrow: siding, roofing, subcontracting electrical and mechanical, and if I'm very lucky our windows will have come in. WOOT. and now to fall over. and, perhaps, drink a margarita on the way

so full of excitedness. today I helped dig the trenches and pour the concrete for a house I designed. Next week we begin our Blitz Build, when we will experimentally gather together all the volunteer...cry from relief. ***** On the down side, Biloxi picked this weekend to have their amazing seafood festival on the town green, complete with a Gumbo Championship Competition, and I will miss it. Woe

we spent this past week in the office learning ArcGIS, a mapping program where you can attach databases of information to a spatial reference and view them overlayed. This means, given the surveys Christine...between those two, I'll be able to convey a good deal of just how much damage there still is down here, with pretty much no official or governmental backing. ...but, that rant is for another day

a month or so ago, Neil Gaiman linked to an amazing blog called Cabinet of Wonders , which I have been checking in with every week or so. It's utterly fascinating; it reminds me a bit of who I was in...the line I stopped letting myself see how horrible things still are, almost two years on, in order to have some semblance of a normal life.) anyway my thoughts and prayers are with y'all, Minneapolis

I love that I have a job that allows me to design small, efficient, simple houses (one might call them "cottages" even) with vernacularly-appropriate details such as wide porches and tall ceilings and...elevational proportion and rhythm. The only down side is that half the time I then want to go build the cottages myself. workdays like today, I love architecture, and think my job suits me, so much

...with natural building (and now I miss being there, as it's officially been over a year since giving birth to my plywood table and discovering my furniture-lust). and we got a new recruit at the GCCDS, James , meaning us Women Of Architecture have to curb the estrogen a bit. in unrelated exciting news, I have my first clarinet lessons since high school tonight, with a woman with a masters in...

first off, Ugly Betty continues to be my hour of sheer campy fabulousness in the week. gah, so much love for this show. (well, that and Doctor Who, which I'm still enjoying immensely this season. I loved...Rowe's wedding! woot first trip home in six months! ...and that's all I got for tonight. oh, except to show off my awesome new shoes , which I purchased in a moment of weakness. don't judge, yo

it should tell you something about my so-called professional office culture that we have to surreptitiously sneak our toilet paper from the Salvation Army. but no matter. a group of us are skiving off... desperately wish I could spend a year there doing innovative design/build in the middle of nowhere. if only it were for an actual, like, degree, rather than a fairly useless "certificate program"...)