Ho hum.

I may be able to post in my jammies, but I guess it's going to stay a weekend thing -- I don't have enough to say to post more often.

Since the working world is so much less intense than architectural education, I've been thinking about what I want to do to stay in the design loop and not become a boring architect (as thesis advisor M fears I may do) While competitions are exciting, I don't have the stick-to-it-iveness to do one on my own, so I've been wondering about making furniture. The up side to furniture is that it has to be a design-build project to gauge the success of the piece so I might be able to keep motivated long enough to build some things. The down side is that if I don't stay motivated I'll have a house full of partially completed furniture.

Interwebbin'

This should be my last post from the coffee shop down the street, as tomorrow I'm getting.... internet at home! I finally cottoned on to how strange it was that I didn't have access from my apartment and the installation guy is coming tomorrow. This means...

• I won't have to work an extra half hour every day to make up for my surfing time at work
• I'll be able to obssesively check Facebook from home
• I can arrange music video dates with Mr. Blair -- we find a music video, start it at the same time and make rude comments via MSN.
• I'll be able to post in my jammies. Hooray!

That's the most important thing happening to me this weekend. Since my last post I've had surgery, recovered, got sick, and quit going to Bikram's yoga (hence the sickness). I love the Bikram's series of postures, but the studio I was practicing at just wasn't the place for me: they regularly set the temperature 5-10 degrees higher than recommended, they don't have any towel service, many of the instructors have such strong accents I can't follow what they are saying and they wouldn't let me put my membership on hold for a month to recover from my surgery. It costs $100 a month for unlimited access, and I've been a regular student there for more than a year, but they wouldn't put it on hold. I was surprised and a little hurt.

What this means is that I am going to need to find a new gym. There are a few around where I'm working, so I'm going to check a few of them out next month. My fear is that if I stop exercising I'll immediately swell up and become so enormously fat that I can't make it through doorways. I may have 'doged a genetic bullet' (in the words of an ex-boyfriend) in that I'm close to average weight, but my mother and sister are on the far side of large and the thought of gaining weight terrifies me.

Another good reason for me to change gyms is that my office has suddenly become a much more interesting place to work late. Although I am still working on the same project, moving to the back office (I like to think of it as a suburb of the main office) has caused a shift in my work methods. Sitting in the back with the guys is a lot of fun, and I still get my work done. I'm going to schedule a meeting with the Principle to discuss my performance (as I just passed the three month mark at work) and I want to check that my work maintains high quality and he is happy with it, but I know that the guys running my project are happy with it and I'm much happier to come in early and work later because it can be so much fun. Since making the 6:00 yoga class at Broadway and McDonald ment I had to leave at 5:15 every day, I'm happy to find something that allows me to stay at work later.

The final reason I need to find a gym and start exercising more is because it will take up some of the time I'm currently spending... shopping. I haven't been buying clothes, but since my walks-for-exercise take me past stores, I've been buying books and kitchen gadgets, more groceries than I need, shoes.... It's a problem. I need to go back to the gym so I'm too tired to do this, because I haven't managed to save any money to pay back horribly-mistreated-ex and I'm running out of room in my tiny apartment.