happy new year!

It's 1:14 in South Korea, and Soeul is amazing and full of people. It was like a mosh pit times 13 hours ahead and full of beautiful and adorable women and men, and me in my funny boots and strange asian-english accent (just being around broken english brings it out, which is so strange because I barely speak Tagalog!) and my friends all drunk and raucous and giving shots to the bartenders so they forget that we're in a group of 30+ obnoxious Americans. I hope noone finds out that Jae and Kapila are using our program fees to get us drunk after lunch and dinner every day. It was a good night, a great day, and a wonderful way to end 2008. I said last New Year's that 2008 was going to be brilliant and I was so right! Thank you, everyone that was a part of it, whether you know it or not.

Now I'm going to bed and falling asleep to that Walkmen song that I can't get enough of (thank you Kenny!) and waking up for a free brunch and a free day to find mmmg and start on our Palace Visitor Center project.

Happy New Year everybody! It's 2009!!!

on the plane to Shanghai

I'm on the plane to Shanghai, and I'll connect to Seoul from there. Have a good remainder of break! I've almost made it!

SUPERDOWNER

some flight attendant fell deathly ill and was carted away to the emergency room.
my flight was cancelled and i'm stuck here until monday, ripping two days of seoul off the itinerary.
i feel like staying at the airport until monday morning and just seething until that flight leaves. SHIT. this is totally life punishing me for making a big deal out of leaving. well, i've learned my lesson. KEEP IT CASUAL, NO BIG GOODBYES AND YOU WILL LEAVE GRACEFULLY. it's all kind of embarassing and very much dissapointing.

i should rename this blog "shit that sucks about travelling/ everything that can go wrong with life in general" or "the whaaaaaambulance"

Flight delay! I'd be pissed but moodie's flight was sitting on the runway waiting for a crew for an hour and a half, where as I get to spend a few hours with my mom, finally free of whining toddlers and other Christmas joys. I love spending time with my mom! She's so level headed and COOL when she's not being attacked by family or work.
Another thing I've gained an appreciation for in the last few hours is my blackberry. Was that sentence badly structured? I don't care because I made it on my phone. I also get unlimited incoming texts in Asia as well as full use of google maps and unlimited email (except I may not find a carrier in south Korea-unless anyone knows if KYSWCMA works on something other than a g3 phone. What's that called again? I should make max read this.)

But that's all "shop talk" according to my mother, so I'll cut it out. SHIT! I just remembered that there won't be quarters in the windows of new house. Sarah- if you read this and decide to blindly take up Filipino superstition, could you put two quarters in the sill of each window of the house? Doors don't count, but taping a dollar to the front door helps, and you can set them on the floor below the ones with plastic insulation blocking the sills. It's nice to place one in each corner of the sill. You just have to put them up for the turning of the new year and you can get them back on new year's day if you want! (though I always thought that picking up the spare quarters when you needed them was a part of the "year of fortune" thing).

There are dogs sort of wandering around the airport, Jennifer aniston is naked on the cover of gq, and I'm going to south Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia. Ri I I I ght NOW!

BON VOYAGE!

this morning my sister damaged my hard drive
my mom's computer got a virus
and the scanner's glass cracked

BUT WHATEVER i'm flying to south korea today
so it doesn't really matter that everything (if your car and computer are everything) broke just before i left. (except for the music that is not on my ipod right now)
whateverwhateverwhateverCYA!

does this count as regifting?

Christmas was a blur. How can so much money go into a day that passes without a thought? : (
At least I got some good driving in while shuttling relatives around town. I forgot that there's still fields and farms around here, not yet targeted by water parks and developments, and that they still reflect the sunset and keep their snow clean and white.


I've got some borders giftcards to cash in tomorrow
any suggestions? particularly items for a extensive, but lightly-packed trip.

It's Christmas Eve and I have a migraine. It's kind of painful to use my brain, but I can't help but think of my dad and the migraines that kept us from Halloweens and Fourths of July and the windows I looked out of as I swore at my dad and fireworks and dressed up children and their obsessive, controlling moms, because they were put in cheer leading camp, and their drunken, negligent fathers, because they came to class bragging about breaking the glass coffee table with his camera when they were in a fight. Now I just curse my niece and nephew because they are difficult, like all children, and all I can do is ignore it until they grow up.

something's out to get me

car won't start
jump car in 8 degree frigid wind-racked cold
cancel plans to just to get home
hood of car SLAMS INTO WINDSHIELD ON THE HIGHWAY

rope (it was twine)
duct tape (wouldn't stick without sacrificing skin-warmth in deliberate application)
max (saves me once again!)

it's about time i start paying for all the fun i've been having, but if this turns out to be some final-destination shit piling up and i don't make it through the night, then i want you to know that everything i made was shit except for my friends and the arrangements of pictures on the wall, but it was worth it and i love you and i really don't hate my dad-he's the most genuine person i know.
don't ever ever lower your standards!

I AM NOT AFRAID OF COMPUTERS

ok so now i'm playing
and it's even harder to know when i'm right.


i just want everything to be made of paper and melt in the rain.

My decision to come to KU came after hours submerged in this image in the Architectural Record, forming the idea in my mind that all the boring architecture/engineering shit I was about to subject myself to might actually be worth it, if I could just do something as elegant and informed.

It's time to amass this semester's body of work, and I'm actually not disappointed. For the first time, I've managed to bring a degree of cohesion to my work (though I wouldn't dare issue a measure of strength) . . . . . ' .".'.". 'BOUT TIME! (i'd almost given up :[ )

i hope my mom likes the book of architectural photography i'm about to give her

brace yourself

always always

my head
my throat
my hands
lower back
front forehead
upper palette
fingers' nails

wood
steel
plastic
paint

Luke and Laura have supernatural powers.
I've been watching the art of Francis Bacon on tv for an hour.
honesty honesty honesty