silent shout

just got back from health services. today was a weird day. it's not over yet. i had forte's class. we talked about new york, about the crystal palace, and about the relationship that emerson and carlyle had (and how it relates to consumerism in america). very interesting things, but i wish we had looked at more slides. more and more, our course is less about architecture and more about cultural philosophy. which i enjoy, but am less motivated to work for.
i went to lunch with justin and jiddy - jiddy was about to get a ride with forte into the city, she was going to the last day of this thai cowboy movie at film forum.
we have so much work coming up in the next two weeks - our pondfield road exhibition hangs on the 12th, claudia wants me to hang up my presentation from tuesday next week, i have to begin my marshall field conference project, group for design is apparently kicking into high gear, and i'm trying to organize a mult-disciplinary panel in the VAC theatre on the future of marshall field. i thought of that in the shower last night - it'd be great to have forte, an administrator, and chet biscardi (the music dept. head) up there having it out about the future of that whole site. i'm interested now. i'm gonna go buy an iTalk ipod recorder so i can start doing interviews with the faculty and music kids. also the archs. the biggest dilemma for me is the fantastic interior spaces in the existing building, and the problematic that would arise from either tearing them down or adding on, or recreating them. it's hard to know what the right thing to do is in this case.
last night was great, katie and i went to the gym and played squash for an hour, and then worked out. squash was awesome. there's a tournament on the 20th that we're joking about entering. today my wrist hurts from the POWER i was bringing from the game last night.
today is an important date in two ways for me: my ut austin application was officially due today, and one year ago today i arrived in berlin. how can that be?