made it through first week of school...

everybody breath with me.... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. nice to be through with the first week of school. wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. i found myself worrying just a little that i'd be in for some trouble, but i think i'll make it through the semester in one piece. it will be challenging, that's for sure, but do-able. i think what had me worried for a while was that i was having trouble figuring out a schedule that would be easy to work my job at the same time. it looks like i have it all situated. in class t-fri mornings, and i work friday after class and saturday all day. its perfect. i also have the opprotunity to work for my dad for his buisiness if i find some extra time during the week. i'm going to be taking 16 credits of all upper division design classes, one of which is a graduate level class (yikes). each one will require a lot more writing and reading than i'm used to, and i still am anxious to find out what the tests are like, but i'm still excited. i have a lot of great minded teachers. i am lucky enough to have wil heywood again, whom i adore tremendously. of all people i have met in my life, he has got to be one of my favorites. i admire him so much as an intellectual, a teacher, and a human being. i have morton for aph 313, and i love that he will jump up and down during lecture, evening running over and literally HUGGING a support column to define how passionate he is about architecture. i have tom witt for Design Methodologies (grad class), whom i like a lot already as well. the class touches on understanding how to analyze design using a is philosophical approach. its very theory based, and makes you think a lot. (in the ways that i like to think... i feel like this class was almost made for me.) there's only 9 people in the little room, so we have long discussions the entire class period. its a lot of hard work, but worth it i think. i definetely need to drop my argentinian tango dance class, which makes me sad, but getting out at 10pm at night when i have to be back on campus at 9:15 the next morning is a little tough, especailly with where i live.

some interesting finds for the week:

-having class at 9:15 is the most difficult commute of my life. it takes me 1 full hour to get from my apartment to the parking garage near the centerpoint theater...and then 10 min to walk to class. this will take an adjustment, because traffic around campus has increased considereably, especially that time of day.
-i actually have classes with friends. it glorious, since i spent the entirety of last year alone with a bunch of interior design freshman girls (for the most part...)
-TEMPE=HUGE! its amazing to see all the development thats going on, some of which i don't necessarily agree on. its the most condensed space in AZ, which is good on some levels, but the fact that most of the people are still driving makes the traffic horrendous, and i think driving in it takes a year off my life daily.
-i love upper division classes.
-landscape arch classes are very different from architecture ones...
-i hate having food poisoning. PERIOD.

k, that's it for now. i'm trying to go camping for mi compleano (i don't think i spelled that right...i miss italian), next week. waiting to hear if my co-worker is able to work for me next saturday. if so, i'm off to make smores and do some fishing! (that was a sidenote).

i'm signing off.