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Name: Andrea
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 9/24/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: music...debate...talking to people...architecture...music...travel...
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2/13/2004
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| i closed my eHarmony account today.
jon and i learned a lot, but in the end i had to close all my matches citing that i was 'pursuing another relationship' and jon did the same.
interesting. very interesting.
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| i don't know why, but i just needed to write in this.
you know, there are so many times when i think back to something i've done only a few years ago and i shake my head, laugh, and think how silly it was to have done that - to have wanted to do that - and sillier still to have captured it for posterity. but gosh. it's such a gift to be in the moment and unapologetic that what you're doing is immature or just natural to you. i'm realizing this more and more when i'm with the grad students and they ask if i want to go out for drinks and i say 'no thanks, i'm going back to my dorm to bake a cookie cake with my residents.' i'm not sorry that i paint my face blue and run around holding an old manequin leg, screaming at other completely intelligent people for no good reason. i think it's awesome. i know this carnival will be my last and i hope i'm able to let go, throw color at brad during holi, scream at michelle in her buggy, ride the ferris wheel with sheelar, and try to predict the color of the next firework with jon...all the while gorging on funnel cake and waiting in line to play the games my friends made for booth.
gosh, i want that.
one guy on my project team is married, has two kids, and another that is due in a week. yesterday, he drove me home and told me about how his oldest daughter is sick and his REALLY pregnant wife was home taking care of her. gah. my life is so simple. i'll probably like that position in life when i come to it, but for now i'm completely happy with my communal shower, key swipe door, and single room with a bunked bed. for now.
design made me really happy the other day. i saw something so beautiful - so simple and just gorgeous because of how well refined it was - and i almost cried. i tried explaining it but couldn't. i love that i've been taught how to make things. i just hope i don't sell out and make the wrong things.
i had an opportunity to sit down with a candidate for the position of head of the design school here. her name is terry irwin, so i had a feeling we'd be off to a good start. she talked about her life and how she approached design. 10 years in a successful firm but in the end felt she couldn't be herself. started her own firm with 2 other designers and at the peak of her success (and she was extremely successful) she left because she felt like she was doing design for the money and not for the good she initially felt it had the power to do. gutsy. she read this book that changed her life and after breakfast with the author she sold most of her possessions and went to england for more education (in her late 40s) where she has been a student or professor ever since. i'm so inspired. she talked about living systems and how as designers we seem to be making things that contradict the way living systems exist. why is that? this woman is all about social consciousness and it's awesome. i really hope they offer her the position...i have so much i could learn from her.
i'm trying to think about what i might want to do after graduate again in december. i feel like i need to do something else before starting a job but not anything like the peace corps. maybe just spend a few months in another country doing volunteer work. i don't know. i could find something, i bet. maybe i don't even want that. going to california over spring break just reminded me how much i like exploring new places.
that's all. for now.
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| it's the middle of december. i just finished my 7th semester of college yesterday. i'm sitting in my boyfriend's room watching him restring his guitar while his roommate toils away on a paper about christianity in china...and i suppose i'm ruminating on life.
i'm rather excited for next semester. i'm taking several interesting classes...landed a research grant to do some really neat material limitation testing in the digital fabrication lab...i'm going to do an independent study with one of my professors so i can re-learn how to draw...should be good. in the next month i have to figure out if i want to accept my admission to grad school, take the job offer i have in nyc, or look for other options. it's an exciting time but i guess thinking about it now, there haven't been many boring moments lately.
i'm going to the TSO concert tomorrow!! yay!
i sanded off part of three of my fingers making 12 chairs last week!! boo!
we had our design show in braddock last friday. it was sweet. brendan and maddy came which was awesome. jon played bass in the band. about 200 people showed up. i felt like i accomplished something real.
i had this great talk with my housefellow yesterday about jobs and life. one of my dear friends just landed a job with IDEO (the mecca of design consultancies!) and i have no idea what i want to do with myself...so my housefellow and i were chatting about how she doesn't so much care what she's doing because she cares more about the people she meets and the culture of her experience. when we talk about other things, one of her main foci is being present in a situation, so i can see how this translates into her career decisions. gah...people are so interesting. i just got back from a curry dinner party at her house with a bunch of the other RAs. her ceiling is covered with cut out snowflakes from catalogs and chains across the ceiling that her husband made to decorate. she's so playful it's just fun to know her. plus she's a ninja.
i kind of want to build one of these http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/plans/
i was thinking about my reflections on relationships over the past year. when i casually dated a guy in new zealand, he would do this cute thing with the palm of my hand. i remember liking it but knowing we weren't destined to be soulmates so i had hoped that whoever i was with would do the same thing because i liked the way it felt...and wow. i do not think the same way anymore. i appreciate that something can be good, but it matters more that something is built in the context of that relations...otherwise it's just for the sake that something feels good, which for me is unsatisfying even in the short term.
jon just broke a string...and my sanded fingers hurt. time to stop typing...
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| two words of the day - one real, one coined during a long hci meeting that we looked up on urban dictionary.
good day.
absquatulate PRONUNCIATION: (ab-SKWOCH-uh-layt)  MEANING: verb intr.: To leave in a hurry; to flee.
ETYMOLOGY: A Mock-Latinate formation, from ab- (away) + squat + -ulate (as in congratulate). First cited from the late 1830s.
USAGE: "If you try to absquatulate again, I'll sic the FBI on you."
Elliott Roosevelt; Murder in the Executive Mansion; St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1996.
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adv. Something that happens automatically, but that also has some mysterious, "magical" element to it. "Smart" appliances, features, etc. that do intelligent things with less help than you might expect.
I installed Windows, and it screwed up my system automagically! |
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| i'm sitting in the tv studio editing yet another greater latrobe high school musical. i've checked my email about 12 times this morning, pondered napping on the couch, and started reading a book i had planned to read, oh, 4 years ago. i guess i'm just a little restless.
i finished all my academic obligations for my junior year of college on monday - culminating in an exam that i was supposed to have on friday but sheela and i lost our professor for the final. that was funny. my stress since then has been helping residents move out (i've forgotten to give any concern to my own packing...) and finishing my internal structure for the robot i'm working on. i figured the part of the robot that i needed to do would take me 2 hours and i was only off by 8 or so  but yeah. everything but this musical is done now.
and then there's summer. i'll be in boston. interning at bose. living in apartment with 4 strangers and a cat named chloe three blocks away from fenway park. i'm pretty excited! i envision many long walks around the city, trips to the beach, and day trips around new england. i guess i haven't been thinking too much about my job because they still haven't told me what i'm working on (and once i know i won't be able to tell anyone for 2 years...so don't get your hopes up  ) but i think the internship will be really good for me in terms of figuring out where the heck i want to be in a year...because i have no idea at the moment. if you forced me, i'd probably say that i'd either move out to the bay area and get a job or stick around here for another 2 semesters and get my masters. we'll see.
aside from begrudgingly editing this musical, i don't think there's
much else in life that i could want. life is pretty sweet. i can't
remember the last time i've been this happy for this long.
it's funny when other people travel and i stay still. i've seen so many people in the last week who are fara away now. kristie is in arizona. jon is in maryland. mandy will be in france soon. i guess i'll be in boston soon, though.
i'm starting to hate guys and dolls...and i'm only capturing the footage...this isn't a good sign...
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