red ink, xrefs, and attitude
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
  i love it!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070122/ap_on_fe_st/tiny_apartment

LONDON - Location, location, location. Almost anywhere else, the tiny dilapidated studio wouldn't attract much more than mice. But this is London and the 77-square-foot former storage room — slightly bigger than a prison cell and without electricity — is going for $335,000.


 
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
  in the beginning...
a short essay to my friend and co-conspiritor here at red ink, xrefs, and attitude:

remember how we met, sharing a copy (i'm sure it was yours) of archt'l graphic standards, sorting site photos, and sharing blades as we cut the gigantic panorama of Broughton and MLK Jr streets.

then i gave you a ride home in that humid savannah summer...

who would know four years later we would've gone through two theses, five jobs (one together), two official breakups (others questionable) and blog(s) on the architectural experience.

writing/reading this makes me realise...wow, we are full on archi-dorks!!! get a life i say, but what else would we do?

a few highlights:

-the november 1st party that turned emo (really i was scared)
-thesis insanity/delerium (sp) where i actually by accident put a sign on my project that read 'do not review' instead of 'do not remove'
-beer
-outstanding student award (evr, not me)
-IMing
-beer
-and finally, beer.

thanks for the memories...
now i have to get back to work.
 
Friday, January 19, 2007
  the upside of practice...by evr
okay good morning! it is friday, and i am still at home, but going to a revit seminar, coming HOME for lunch, and then going to meet engineers and our client at a fancy prep school near where i live to look at their vertical unit ventilators at 3pm. pretty exciting friday! i decided it was a waste of time and travel to go into the office. so i brought some things home with me to do this afternoon. i LOVE working at home. so don't send any emails to my work address today. thanks.new print guy?
 
Thursday, January 18, 2007
 
teaching gives us the hope (perhaps dillusional) that we can educate, instill, and empower those coming up.
they are smart, receptive, impressionable, and not yet beaten by the budget.


i believe this, and i love the opportunity to teach. i realise i am much more radical (maybe stupborn) than i ever knew...and for this, i am possible making the biggest sacrifice yet...that sacrifice is teaching for paractice in small town USA...
there is so much wrong here (USA), and if i can get one small office to use cork instead of polyester, to recycle their binders...that is something.
some people are called to God,
I am called to reality.
I despise the US media,
but fuel/energy shortages, global warming, crime, lack of values, over population...these are our reality.
am i being radical by becoming a resident (which is what i must do in four months time to stay) of an ideal country.
or am i being a draft dodger by leaving the country that needs the most help?

 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
  a new blog from Oyster Girl
please be patient while i prepare those files,
i'll do it right now....


 
  bemused
red ink, xrefs, and attitude sounds like a GREAT blog title!!
sounds like he needs a kick in the arse from mr. c and mr.l! ha!
you didn't come across that way at all! they never would have hired someone like that. things are quiet here, yes.
i am working on the ugliest building you ever saw.
but it might be a chance for me to prove that i can actually do construction drawings (on my own.)
editor in chiefhttp://wednesday-for-women.blogspot.com/---

On Tue 01/16, XXXXXXX <> wrote:
From: XXXXXX [mailto: XXXXXXX]To:
XXXXXXXX:
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:50:02 -0800 (PST)Subject: red ink, xrefs, and attitude...

i am so busy here, the architect hired a recent graduate to help.he is sooo cocky, knows everytnng, but i feel like i am looking bad to 'mr. m' because i run behind "t" to fix everyting.
he does not do what you explain....and now we have a med/lg proj. going out to bid and i want to cry b/c i just saw that he did something crazy to all the files for the job.
-the scale is off in all the sheets , either drawings are teeny tiny, orr there are just the letters XREF pasted across the front.
-he saves job #0000 in job #0XXX, etc....
-never admits his mistakes, etc...
-says we should be using mac, etc.
i am very nice though, b/c i am usually in his shoes, i'm really sorry you had to train me, i hope i didnt' come across that way.
have a good one!

p.s. musing memoirs, it was weird working yesterday, we were busy, but it was so quiet, strange working when it felt the rest of the country wasnt...
 
the truth about architecture from a couple of slightly bitter thirty somethings with thoughts from behind the machine, on colleagues, IDP, construction, but mostly emails pondering the whole thing...

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