I've been working for a couple of weeks now. While most of the time I've been updating plans and elevations for a not-very-exciting strip mall in Surrey, I did have the opportunity to illustrate elevations for the biggest project the firm is working on. While I enjoyed the work, more interesting was the design meeting between our firm and the other architects involved. It went an awful lot like a desk crit at school: they had quite a few hard hitting comments about the elevations (which I felt a little guilty about, but they had been okayed by the principle).
The firm is starting to feel like home, and I am getting to know people, but its still much quieter than I would like.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Working girl
These days, I'm a new broom sweeping clean.
I started work last Monday at 10, and sice then I've been rigourously monitoring my interweb use, CADding like a mad monkey, and swearing at the fellow who previously worked on my drawings. Work is not exciting, but pays the bills with unexpected dexterity. I'm currently making enough to pay back Horribly Mistreated Ex in about a year, after which I'll start paying back Financially Exploited Parents. After that is a new car (purchased outright: none of this leasing for me), and after that an apartment in Vancouver proper. By then I should be about 50.
Hot Dog and I have dropped the PoTo competition: the timing was off, and I just couldn't get excited about the topic. If Team and I don't get down to Fort Worth to see the Kimball as we've discussed (something that looks more and more likely) I'll be able to go to the presentations and see what everyone else suggested. I am looking into more competitions: the RIBA is sponsoring a design for a Bat House in England which might be fun (if only to learn more about bats) and there is also a self-sufficient housing project that seems like it could take me in an interesting direction.
The first week of work was memorable not so much for the work, but for the realization that 1) I don't seem to have any hobbies any more and 2) most of my friends are far too busy to socialize the way I want to, meaning that I need to track down some new drinking buddies. It's such a cliche that it is hard to make friends after you leave school, but I'm not sure how to fill my time these days. Lots of gym going is probably the best option. Less shopping may also be a good idea.
I'm hugely annoyed with Team about the Fort Worth trip: I keep trying to discuss it and he doesn't respond to my e-mails. If he doesn't want to go, he should just tell me! Short Bus and I were trying to understand what happens in his head and came up with a blank, but I do know that I don't much want to drag him all the way to Dallas if he isn't excited about it (as I do to Kareoke and the Richmond Night market). We keep trying to get him to come out and he keeps saying he has too much work... silly keener.
My favorite social acitivity these days is hanging out with the Squirrels, who continue to meet for soccer every week. We're having a barbeque tomorrow, so I hope the weather stays nice.
I started work last Monday at 10, and sice then I've been rigourously monitoring my interweb use, CADding like a mad monkey, and swearing at the fellow who previously worked on my drawings. Work is not exciting, but pays the bills with unexpected dexterity. I'm currently making enough to pay back Horribly Mistreated Ex in about a year, after which I'll start paying back Financially Exploited Parents. After that is a new car (purchased outright: none of this leasing for me), and after that an apartment in Vancouver proper. By then I should be about 50.
Hot Dog and I have dropped the PoTo competition: the timing was off, and I just couldn't get excited about the topic. If Team and I don't get down to Fort Worth to see the Kimball as we've discussed (something that looks more and more likely) I'll be able to go to the presentations and see what everyone else suggested. I am looking into more competitions: the RIBA is sponsoring a design for a Bat House in England which might be fun (if only to learn more about bats) and there is also a self-sufficient housing project that seems like it could take me in an interesting direction.
The first week of work was memorable not so much for the work, but for the realization that 1) I don't seem to have any hobbies any more and 2) most of my friends are far too busy to socialize the way I want to, meaning that I need to track down some new drinking buddies. It's such a cliche that it is hard to make friends after you leave school, but I'm not sure how to fill my time these days. Lots of gym going is probably the best option. Less shopping may also be a good idea.
I'm hugely annoyed with Team about the Fort Worth trip: I keep trying to discuss it and he doesn't respond to my e-mails. If he doesn't want to go, he should just tell me! Short Bus and I were trying to understand what happens in his head and came up with a blank, but I do know that I don't much want to drag him all the way to Dallas if he isn't excited about it (as I do to Kareoke and the Richmond Night market). We keep trying to get him to come out and he keeps saying he has too much work... silly keener.
My favorite social acitivity these days is hanging out with the Squirrels, who continue to meet for soccer every week. We're having a barbeque tomorrow, so I hope the weather stays nice.
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