Hullo! I am now back in Pittsburgh alive and well after a harrowing plane trip. I have learned to never fly in small planes because the wind tosses them and my poor stomach everywhere and the engine makes everything vibrate so it feels like your bones are going to rearrange themselves. And now back to Pittsburgh where the room is always cold and the outdoors is somewhat dreary - or at least, it was yesterday. Today was quite nice and for studio we went to the Southside for the next phase of our project, and we took pretty pictures of an area that we're supposed to redesign. The teachers set me up as one of the project coordinators supposedly because I'm a shy person (really, why do people always think I'm shy?) and they think I can handle the responsibility. It's nice that they think that I can be responsible, but I don't think I really am. There's just a lot of luck...O well, they'll figure that out eventually. In any case, so far it seems like I'm not being particularly responsible and the other person in my studio is handling all the work. Hopefully he'll let me do something so I don't feel like a total slacker.
Other than that, I went to a really great lecture given by Hani Rashid who runs Asymptote, an architecture and design firm in New York City (www.asymptote.net if you want to check it out). Really interesting work and the methodology was very clear and concise, something I hope I can do in a couple of years. I think I'm almost there, method wise - there's just something in my head that isn't working right, a wall of some sort. Sometimes I can get my brain into the right mindset, but most days, my thoughts just don't really come together. I just need one really great epiphany and it will be...well, smoother sailing.