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I know I skipped a couple of days. My parents came up for a visit and we ended up going up to Santa Rosa to the Mark West Lodge to set the date of May 29th, 2011. Yes that's right, my sister's getting married in one year and 31 days. That's crazy if you think about it.

So anyways, my parents came up this weekend and on Saturday I took them to the Ferry Building. Of the 7 years that we've been coming up here my parents have never been to the Ferry Building. For once I can show them something new :D
So we went to the farmers market there and walked around for a while. My mom ended up getting some flavored honey sticks and orchids, dad got some hummus dips, and I got some strawberries. Everything tasted really good. After the farmers market we went across the street to the arts and crafts fair and my mom got a fused glass pendant that is really pretty. After we got food at a small gyros place within the Embarcadero Center. They were really good. I also took my parents to the corner of Battery and Pacific, where my final studio 1 project is based off of. They thought it was really interesting because 250 years ago that spot was underwater, and then became known as the barbary coast trail, which my dad actual knew about.

Saturday afternoon consisted of going up to the Mark West and meeting with Alli for the final time before plans start becoming definite. It was really great seeing her again because she is so sweet and so helpful. We're really excited for when Marie and Nick actually get to meet her. After spending about 2-3 hours at the Mark West, we headed back into Santa Rosa so my dad could look at a few hotels around the area to get a few ideas. We ended up eating dinner in Sausilito at the Spinnaker. It was a nice restaurant, but not one of the best that we've been to. But hey, it's all about the experience, right?

Sunday we went to church and then I took my parents to this restaurant called Q on clement and 3rd. My friends/coworkers Eivette and Allie took me there a few weeks ago and it tasted so good that I had to take my parents to another new place in the city. I got the mac and cheese with tater tots, mom had the chicken enchiladas, and dad had a burger. Everything tasted pretty good, but my mom said that when we go back she's going to get the mac and cheese and tater tots cause they tasted great.

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HAPPY EARTH DAY EVERYBODY!

Today was the 40th anniversary of Earth day! USF went all out for the event. We took over in front of gleeson library with tons of tables set up to show off everyone's love for the earth and our environment.

Back to the Roots, the club loosely connected with the Garden Project, had a bicycle powered amplifier that was connected to a stage where we had a band playing. BTDR also had a bicycle powered smoothie maker... they tasted really good too.

Garden Project had by far one of the best farm stands yet! We had so many delicious foods from carrot cake to focaccia bread to rosemary lavender muffins to lavender shortbread cookies and grape leaves to lentil soup to beet soup. Everything tasted amazing!

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Today was a pretty good day. I had calculus this morning, which was you know... mathematical. And then I had work from 11-3 which ended up being a lot of fun. My coworker/good friend and I really enjoyed each others company today. We made a lot of jokes and just had so much fun at work. I know, I know, work isn't supposed to be all fun and games, but today was just a good day.

After work I went back to my room to start working on a revision of my study model for my sculpture gallery/reading room for my studio project. I was doing fine, until I was running low on chipboard. Then Manisha and I went to Blick to get some materials. When we got back we had dinner together and then went our separate ways to work on studio.

I have finished both my study model and section model. I actually really like my section model (it's the picture above), it's really cool and interesting. I'm happy with what I have at this point and I'm sure I'm going to be doing more detail within the models, I just need to talk to my professor and see what she says about them for now.

30 days

Okay so I've got 30 days left... that means 30 days to: Design a sculpture gallery/reading room, finish calculus, write a history of architecture research report including pictures and drawings and then prepare for a history of architecture final test, present a speech on policies or persuasion, take a cubism painting and pick a square from that painting and then do a quick study model and then create a nice polished model from it. Yeah, that's my schedule for the next 30 days.

On a lighter note, for my architectonics class, which is my favorite architecture class because it's more hands on, we were asked to create a chair. This chair could be built at either actual, or half scale. It had to represent someone who influences us and we had to give a short description of how they have influenced us. I made my chair for my sister Marie, who has influenced me from day 1. Marie influenced me to be who I want to be and do what I want to do and I've always appreciated that. I built my chair at half scale to represent a child. I did this because Marie is in South Korea teaching children and I thought it was fitting to put it at that size.

I Know, I Know

Okay so it's been... a long time. I'm sorry :'(
But I promise to fix it. I'm going to try posting a little blurb every day from now until my 19th birthday on May 21st. Because not only is it my 19th birthday, but it will also be the end of my first year away at USF. So here it begins:

This past Friday, my friends and I decided to head downtown to the AT&T Ball Park and watch USF take on Saint Mary's College. We won, of course, but it was so much fun. The Giant's stadium is SOOOOOOOO much smaller than Dodger Stadium, or so it seemed like it to me. Dad was jealous because he's never been there so I took pictures and sent them to him while I was watching the game.

For the past couple of weeks, and for a few more weeks, Garden Project is making a kitchen in the garden! I've been lucky enough to be allowed to come and help build the kitchen and I was included in the original design of the kitchen as well. It is so much fun to actually be out there and build something at full scale, rather than at half or 1/8" =1'.



Tomorrow is my mid-review on my final project for my architecture studio 2 class. We're being told to design a sculpture gallery and reading room. We're also being told to incorporate our mid term project, where we were all assigned a different architect and had to recreate a section of their work. I was assigned Ray and Charles Eames, a married couple during the 50s that created a Case Study House out in Santa Monica. This house was made out of steel, glass, and opaque panels. The Eames house focused solely on bringing light into a small space, making it seem larger. I am going to incorporate this idea of light and space into this project to see how it will work.

Oops

I know, I missed 2 days of posting. I am so sorry. I have been busy yet not at the same time. Like I said in my Thursday post, I had gotten all my homework done then so I could have a free weekend. Well, I did have a free weekend.

Friday Johnny came up to visit, he took me and Bunny to lunch at SakanaBune. Then I had class. After Garden Project I met up with Lauren downtown and we treated ourselves to Cheesecake Factory, since she had never been. After dinner we made our way back to USF to watch some of the USF vs Cal Poly basketball game. We left after being there for maybe 15 minutes and went up to Haight St and hung out up there for a while. After she left I watched School of Rock with some of my friends in Garden Project.

Saturday I went downtown again, but this time with Manisha. We went to the Mac store for about 45 minutes, just playing the kids games. Then we went to Macy's and walked around for a little while. We walked through Union Square, they just put in the Safeway ice skating rink so we're going to have to go ice skating one day soon. We ended up at borders for at least 3 hours. We were just walking around and reading and getting Christmas gift ideas. When we went back to school we ate dinner and then watched Mad Money and Fired Up in my room.

Today Johnny and Bunny picked me up around 1030 and we ate a really good breakfast at Rose Pistola. I had fried crab cakes, Johnny had a breakfast pizza, and Bunny had a crab omelet. After breakfast they dropped me back off at USF. I then went to draw a few cafe's for my final project in studio. I also decided to wander around Macy's again and get ideas for my family. I also stopped in William Sonoma just to look around. It smelled so good inside. I then ended up back at borders and read 310 pages in 2 hours. It felt good to get away and spend the afternoon by myself.

This is a picture of my breakfast this morning. It was fried crab cakes with poached eggs and a fruit and greens salad. It was very yummy. Thank you Johnny for a wonderful breakfast.

Free Weekend

That's right! I basically have a free weekend as of now. Well, free of architecture studio that is. I just spent the last 4 hours in studio with the girls. We busted out 8-9 different drawings for our site analysis. We are so ready for this model we get to build of our site and cafe we are separately designing.

Today was another slow day. I worked from 830-1230 again. I had to talk to a lot of people on the phones since this weekend is open house. After work I had to go down to Haight and Octavia with my friend Manisha to observe our site for our final studio project. We spent about an hour and a half down there and then went to Flax, another art store, to get colored construction paper for our 8-9 diagrams.

Then we had history of architecture, where we got our midterms back. I got a B-, but I'm okay with that because the test was on things we did not go over in class and we were not told they would be on the test. But it's okay, for now.

This picture was taken over summer when my cousin Jason was up here with us. He had never been so Johnny and I had to take him to see the Golden Gate Bridge.