Why do Mondays........

Why do Mondays live up to their reputation??? My computer had to be in on it, conspiring to shut down periodically like the sun. A reminder that lunchtime beach chill out sessions are coming to an abrupt halt!
Feels like I have done absolutely nothing today, just yet anyway, because my work has not been recovered so I keep starting from scratch........well almost.

Facebook's doom these days! Daily views at the class blog make my eyes freeze wide open because the submissions are 'on a roll' so it seems SIG, trying to roll with it lol. My temporary mental retreat is my current read by Barrack Obama. Well lunch is almost over now so this post will be too soon.

Escape: anywhere where there's a constant source of vitamin D! Daydreams are guaranteed to please...........

Update..........

After a good few interviews I have landed an internship at Cooke Le fever Architects in Muizenberg. So the daily 8 to 5 routine began and I’m slowly getting into the swing of things…….meaning I ask a little less lol.

New job, new environment, new people and new experiences, one of note is starting to travel by train. It’s a ten minute ride from where I live to get to work and what’s best is getting off onto the station and seeing different hues of sky every morning over the cold sea. Yeah cold just at the sight of it, memory serves me well on the frozen water. Still there are quite a few surfers riding early crashing waves. Black dots far in patiently waiting for that one………..

Muizenberg as I’ve discovered this past month is like a little village and in true small town culture, everybody knows each other so it seems. So my walk down to the office was met with a few stares at the new villager.  A minute from the beach, passing the daily corner hangers (beggars), hangers since my morning routines kind of glamorized……….not exaggerated however. Now how’s this for the ‘perfect location, printers on the corner, bakery and coffee shop and finally The Office. Office environment is relaxed, ‘casual’, quaint and pleasant. Friendly, warm people occupy the space and there’s no boss egoJ.

Ok so my daily tasks have been making amendments to council drawings for Westcape housing project. I’ve been to council and site once and did measuring up of a house that will have a loft addition and a few alterations. Doing office admin and just getting accustomed to the daily functions of what brings it all together. At any given time conversations about architecture, music, weekends etc and sometimes concentrated silence and just the click click of the mouse, some days go quick and some slow sigh.

I’m done stressing about getting a job and more preoccupied with getting up to date with my subject work. I feel miles behind but slowly getting it sorted, I prefer to upload it all at once and not in drips and drabs. My design is finally resolved! I can get a bit carried away in the development process…………………

Update.....

I prefer to update anyhting when there's progress........anyway still job hunting, a friend suggested instead of using bow and arrows I should use a gun and bullets. Some needed comic relief I suppose.

After some computer rage I finally redid my hub Design submission and changed format's so it can be uploaded...LATE ug! May have complicated it slightly but it will work out :-). Thought I had this blogging thing down but I need to tweak it a bit more and learn new apps so that I don't have problems again.

I added a new page tab, reFRESH, and the content will be based on design I like and dislike or simply question. Note: we may not like a design but there's always a lesson/principle to learn from it so look closer at the ugly concrete duckling hahahaha....entertaining myself now.

Job search has slowed down but I'm loading my gun again so watch this space __________________

Hub design

V-day Epiphany

I've never subscribed to Valentine’s Day commercialism, just a random note, you can buy me chocolate any day of the year in fact. So whilst avoiding the hoo ha and social networking wishes, the usual virtual kiss, flowers and hugs (the crap), I came across old notes hmmmmmmm I even found an Andre' Van Graan quote scribbled on em. My history notes usually are clean and by clean I don’t mean car sketches which is a good thing 'cos I was paying attention simply 'cos it was interesting. I'm been very long winded (note to self)......

I can't really call it an epiphany but a lil delusional grandeur never hurt anybody. I've been through the process of what I want to achieve with the HUB project and because I don’t like gum poles I decided to irritate myself and think of a way to express or present the structure to the observer. I dunno that idea may change but it's worth a shot! I tend to get preoccupied with tertiary aesthetics SOMETIMES. Good thing about fashion design is you don’t have to worry about how the model's body is 'constructed'.........ok digressed a bit........see how easily I can go off on a tangent.

Ah just received a 'happy single awareness text' from my err err err friend yeah that's it. I need a label gun. Action-reading up on Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, precedent study at UCT educare, hope I survive that 'cos I can’t watch kids on jungle gyms SCARY! Classroom functions and activity demarcation is what I'll be looking at so I probably won’t have to see blood on the playground. A bit dramatic...well it is V day afterall so.....

Job hunting continues and so does life I guess so more scribble in my journal, oh I keep a mental one.......

this is me...partly hehe

Thomas Patullo Coutryard competitIon