Freedom!

Finally, I can relax. This whole entire week seemed to be spent at work - I leave the apartment at 8 and I leave work at 8, practically everyday. Now that Nestor's in Texas, things are a little more relaxed as his minions over there are doing all the work now. I still find myself looking around expecting more documents to magically appear and demand to be worked on. We'd better win that competition, or else I'm going to have to fly down to Hendersonville where heads will roll. Well, not really.
Still, something I realized from all of this - well, more of an affirmation rather than epiphany. I really love architecture. I actually have a bit of a say in the design process so I think that I'm somewhere in the realm of close to what it will be like to be an architect and it's just awesome. The professors really don't realize - it's not that we don't love architecture, it's that all the other classes bog us down so much that we can't enjoy it to it's fullest extent. O and Sol Lewitt's work is being exhibited in a gallery a couple of blocks over from my office. I'm going to go check it out on a lunch break next week. Fun!
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So, I just got back from getting lunch - today it's Japanese beef curry. It's a lot stronger than I thought it would be, smell-wise. I hope no one yells at me for bringing it into the office. Something about Japanese curry, it tastes way better than Indian curry. And for $7, I get a hell of a portion. If I wasn't going on the train right after work, I'd bring the rest home for dinner. I'll compromise by thoroughly gorging myself.
Also, it's just insane how much attention I get in New York. I got hit on by no less than three people in 15 minutes (the time it took to buy lunch). I don't know what it is about New Yorkers, but they're a lot more...um...friendly than CMU students. I doubt most guys at CMU look twice at me. Or maybe there are just more desperate people in New York... O yes, and getting hit on makes me really really paranoid, but even my nervous/hostile glare doesn't seem to keep people from commenting.