GOOSE

so this is how i say good bye for now to california, standing here overlooking santa barbara.

next ahead is italia. i know that i will have a great time over there-- i can't wait. the next year and a half could prove to be the best time of my life so far. first is europe -- italia for a while and then a brief tour of the rest of europe. next summer will be great also, whether i am in europe still or back in california. and then school again, if everything goes well, six other students and i will replace our regular final year in studio for an independent studio in which we will study our own different architectural interests that the school doesn't give us. it just so happens to be that the school is about to go from a 4 year Bachelor of Arch to a six year Master of Arch. It was suggested to us that we volunteer to become a 'pilot' test for the upcoming curriculum change. to make the story short, we could end up receiving a masters out of five years of study. i don't really know how that works but apparently its possible.

but this i going to be hard, there are lots of people who don't want this kind of 'rebelness' going on in the college. it is going to be difficult to get our 'thesis' proposals to get approved by the faculty and when we do, it is going to be even harder to prove to the profs that we are actually doing a good enough of a job to receive the props that we will deserve.

but enough of that it is now time to concentrate on the times ahead. italia.

so this is the new year, and what a year it will be....

as i sit here writing this, i wonder to myself- where has my winter break gone?! except i know the answer. i am working in beautiful Santa Barbara for these guys at S+D Architects, its a pretty good place but its kicking my ass. i am busier than when i was at school. i wake up at around 5:30-5:45 am, slowly wake up and get ready for work... but wait first i have to comute around 1 hour to 1 hour 15 min to work. yeah, that's the killer. i work all day (literally) lately i've been working until 9 or 10 at night. then i drive back home. but it doesn't end there, at home my father has been working on several home improvement projects (including painting the entire house!). when i get home, sometimes i still got to help my father out. besides that, i've been busy buying stuff for europe, trying to find out about a place here in Santa Barbara for next summer, scholarship shit, more school stuff, and on top of all this, i have to write a proposal for the thesis for next year.... man, i only sleep about 4 hours max a night, drive for about 3, work for about 11, do research for about 1 or 2, maybe 2 hours for eating and the other 2 hours are full of random shit.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! no worries, i'm happy- i will be in europe in less than two weeks. my friends that i miss so much will be there and i will be the happiest man on the planet. simply like that.