First of all, congrats to the Giants for winning the world series! Being from Seattle, I've never experienced my team winning the championship (go Mariners!) and the vibe of the city was really cool to see. I don't follow sports much because I have other things I'd rather do, but I'll get into it if there's a game on and I have my teams that I root for. I was pulling for the Giants and it was great to see them get it done.
November is here (already?) and that means Thanksgiving is in a few weeks! Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday for a few reasons. 1. All the delicious food!! 2. Great time to catch up with family, although not so much this year since we're scattered all over the place. And 3. -The Tie-Breaker, No pressure to get the perfect gift. Secret reason 4. The day after kicks off my Christmas preparations starting by breaking out my Christmas Music playlist. Can't wait!
This week has been a little up and down. I've been working on layouts for the marketing publication. I spent all day Tuesday and Wednesday morning feeling like I'm just going around in circles trying to find something I like that's different from what I've already got. Then Wednesday afternoon I got a break by tidying up the materials library. So dusty. It was nice though. My mentor prefaced with "I've got a left-brained activity for you," and I remembered that I really am left-brain dominant. Organizing, math, and music are my strong points. Creativity, not so much. Yesterday I could have really gotten into reorganizing their whole library, which is really out of order.
I spent this morning continuing my quest for an alternative layout. I had a case study meeting with Arcanum which I enjoyed. I think I enjoy those meetings because it's like listening to a story. A story about a historic house remodel, but to me it's riveting.
Last night was our case study mid-term presentation. It did not go well. Myself and my team are mostly to blame (one didn't show), but so is our professor and our case study mentor. Our mentor is great but keeps our meetings to an hour which isn't enough time, and repeats herself. We hadn't gotten much of a chance to ask questions, but we also hadn't formulated them. My professor shouldn't have shown so much disappointment because I specifically asked her what she wanted for the presentation and she said "Nothing specific, just show progress. I know you guys have been busy settling into your firms." I guess we didn't make enough progress. So today we spent our whole meeting going over what we need for the presentation.
After the meeting I went back MHA for a lunch and learn. I got to hear a guy talk about cement board, look at samples, and get free food! I arrived late and missed the first part of the presentation but I wondered if it was the guy's first day, because he was not very good. He didn't have a presentation up, he was switching back and forth between photo albums to show examples of the product. Later, everyone else said he was awful. Poor guy.
After lunch, I talked with my mentor about the layouts for the publication and I finally get to move onto making mock-ups or two partis. I was miserable on this project before when I felt like I was doing the same thing over and over and I thought it was the project or my short attention span, but I really think I just want to feel like I'm making progress. After talking with my mentor and moving on I started enjoying it again and I was able to focus. I just find it interesting how when I think I hate everything about architecture and start thinking about what I'm going to do once I graduate and can be done with this, I start to like it and get sucked back in. Sounds like an abusive boyfriend.
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