Fall-ing

Life outside school takes a little bit of getting used to. I still haven't adjusted properly to the work/play division that a job requires. To be specific, I would much rather work an 11 hour day if I can take an hour lunch break, a walk around 3pm and surf the web during the day. While I don't mind starting work at 8:30, I just can't focus for 8 hours straight, or even for two 4 hour periods with a lunch break between!

That aside, I have been getting some very interesting tasks. My firm is working on the community centre in the Olympic Precinct, and right now I'm doing rough sketches for the interior elevations. I started out working on reflected ceilings: I laid out lights and vents, made sure there was enough room between the floor slabs and ceilings for all the heating/ventilation equipment, and designed a ceiling system to absorb sound so the acoustics were taken care of. This job evolved into drawing what the inside walls of the building look like, and right now it's a lot of fun to do because I get to make a lot of decisions. I know that when the other firm looks at these drawings they will have lots of different opinions and I'll have to change everything, but right now I get to show exactly what I think a community centre needs and that is great.

I have been enjoying work for other reasons as well. My firm has been expanding so quickly we recently converted the storeroom into office space, and I was one of the lucky four to get a place there. It's nice to sit with other junior members of staff because we can chat, and it's fantastic to have my own set of drawers and shelves. My only concern is that we're so noisy other people might mind...

I think that one of the reasons I've been having trouble concentrating is that I didn't get enough exercise last week. I'm trying to get a grip on my social life and while I do want to be more social, two dates, a concert and a party didn't leave any time for the gym. I'm having a minor medical procedure tomorrow and I've been avoiding yoga because I feel faint and nauseous in class, but I miss the exercise. I have to take a few days off work to recover and I'm not sure how I will feel about yoga after that, but some kind of exercise does need to happen.

Even though I'm not at school, I have been lucky enough to keep up with Team's thesis. He's looking a time and has chosen to design a truck stop. Team's an ambitious man and is extremely serious about his thesis, so it's a real pleasure to discuss his work with him. I've got my fingers crossed that he'll be interested in doing competitions after he graduates. He's one of those people with so much energy and enthusiasm for design that it is catching and I'd love to find out what it is like to do a project with him as compared to talking about our individual work.