i'm now well into week two of school. our room is finally settled (though a bit messy) and i'm sort of kind of managing my time ok, at least for now. 15 west is really different from the quad. it's much quieter (especially considering we're on the 11th floor, out of 11) but feels more homey. even if it is slightly sterile. it's kind of sad though because i don't see some people as much as i used to, when we all lived "closer" to each other. for some reason even though it's just an elevator it feels like much more of a divide. this past week and a half has been slightly crazy. i haven't gone to bed before 2 am since i got here. i finally made it over to anton's place last night. it's nice, but i can imagine that he would get pretty lonely. especially because he's not that close. although his new 330ci shouldn't necessarily hurt the situation. aye... krit, saera, deboreee, bui, ji, and bona have pretty much lived here with us for the past week too. this is probably because we're the only ones with a tv (and after being "deprived" for a year... well you can imagine...). oh, and alice makes awesome curry. we somehow managed to fit 8 of us around a 4 person table. it is very tiny...i feel bad for all the architecture kids cuz they're all dropping out. we've got a bunch in id now, haha. i'm going to try to maintain this again, but we'll see how it goes. i'll start with yesterday:
wednesday is my light day, so after an hour and a half of modern britain, yawn, i basically had the rest of the day to...work. i spent my afternoon (from 3 on) in the id studio making a goddam 5x3x1 gridded box out of bristol. good times. it probably wouldn't have taken as long if i didn't keep getting distracted, and if quincy didn't keep threatening to blackmail me...but that's another story. so i finally got back to 15 west around 7ish, and even though i was hungry portfolio just made everything incredibly unappetizing. it turns out it was a good thing i didn't eat cuz ben called about half an hour later and invited me to go over to anton's with him and isao. anton and isao cooked dinner for us, so ben and i did dishes. it was only fair. those guys are so cute they put out placemats and appetizer plates and we all sat around and drank wine and pellegrino. so then after watching this dvd of hip-hop clips that anton put together, ben, isao, and i headed back to 15 west, during which time they proceded to argue like a married couple the entire way back. i stopped at deborah, ji, and bona's (where alice, bui, and krit also were) for a while, and then deborah, ji and i went to 7-11 for midnight snacks before coming back to our room to watch some trashy tv whilst reading trashing magazines. good times. so far, for id, i'm not that stressed. but i get the feeling it's about to get a lot worse...
