constructing the void

Things I Love Today: 

-grandiose visions of the future and feeling sudden renewed faith in myself to realize all my dreams

-Just Kids

-Happy Hour with my coworkers today; got drunk off of ONE BEER because I was starving 

-Memorial Day Weekend!

-I have been way too pleased with my appearance lately. My skin is relatively clear, my hair has just the right amount of wilderness to it, I’ve been wearing my favorite matte red lipstick, I’ve been doing squats and living in skinny jeans and leggings. Having Memorial Day off means I can paint my nails red and put my cartilage piercing in and enjoy them for more than two days. 

-ARCHITECTUUURREEEE

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Mercat Santa Caterina

Barcelona, Spain

Enric Miralles - Benedetta Tagliabue

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Simon C. Page
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2013

Reading Just Kids has been good for my soul.

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“You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.”

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Things I Love Today: 

-Our broken water valve is fixed o_O

-I went to yesterday’s cafe again today for lunch (a chorizo empanada and iced citrus passionfruit sencha tea). The Boston terrier’s name is Buddy!

-The table in the cafe where I ate my empanada had a vase full of pink tiger lilies and one white rose. 

-It also had a wall of foreign currency written on with notes from visitors!

-I finished This is Where I Leave You (it was wonderful— perfect for a heartbroken kid with daddy issues OOPS), and started reading Just Kids (love love love love love smack me if I don’t paint/draw something by the end of the week)

-Julieeee my mom made me tortellini soup when she noticed that I was just going to eat chocolate for dinner, and Julie wouldn’t leave me alone until I fed her some!

-I’m feeling more like the old self that was starting to bud but got crushed under the weight of Growing Up— the books and work and driving and exercising are all helping, I think. I feel big things coming this summer (but I should probably figure out how to stop being so tired when I get home first!)

-speaking of my old self, I kind of want to dye my hair violet again…

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Julie is having none of my booshit today

therumpus:

Taurus: This week’s going to be about work, about patience, about being open to the world in a way that might be a little frustrating and might be a little exhilarating. This week the world is going to make demands of you. The spaces you move through, the people you know, will ask for your sweat and for your love. Try to give these things; try to give exactly as much as you’re able. More than ever, this week, more than you can even imagine, everything you give will be paid back.

Things I Love Today: 

-Yesterday I drove on the highway (which I haven’t done since I was 17) and then today drove all the way back from work: a one-and-a-half-hour drive because today’s traffic was particularly fucked up, and when I stepped out of the car, my foot was cramped from constantly stepping on and off the brake, but I did it. 

-Something really drastic happened to a project at work but the flipside of it is I am going to have SO MUCH WORK which means SO MUCH LEARNING this summer.

-I found a cafe/gelateria/pie shop just. across. the street. from my office; they have at least thirty different types of tea and dim lights and artisanal chocolate bars at the cash register and a fucking Boston terrier puppy that ran up and jumped all over me while I waited for my strawberry lychee iced sencha tea, and fuck, I was doomed from the second I laid eyes on their door, I might as well just have my paycheck directly deposited into their company bank account

-Checked out a Momofuku Milk Bar recipe book and a book of cocktails from the library yesterday: this means midnight teacocktail time sometime soon

-Also checked out four books to read, and am currently devouring them

- :)

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Things I Love Today: 

-seeing my old high school friends last night; four of us girls showed up all wearing bikinis we had bought from Target this week. Also, I got to see Kathleen in person, HI KATHLEEN

-My bikini matched my dress which matched my bottle of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE GIN thank you, Sarah!

-Also, Pimm’s No. 1 is amazing. Plans to go booze hunting continue. 

-Andrew’s father’s cooking: I FINALLY got to have one of his burgers after having known this family for seven years. He made salmon burgers last night, and they were delicious; we also had grilled sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and black beans, and it was all delicious (duh), and then Sarah made another gin and tonic cake for dessert, and we died of happiness and woke up this morning to Andrew’s dad’s French toast custard and bacon and sweet potato hash and I realize a lot of you guys don’t know who Andrew is or only vaguely know Kathleen but do you understand why we all want to move to Andrew’s house now?!?!

-Also, even besides his cooking, Andrew’s dad is the perfect person and so is his mom, so Kathleen and I stayed at their house until 4 pm today, mostly chatting with his parents. They are the sort of people I want to be when I grow up. 

-A beautiful, drunken game of Taboo. We got our asses whooped by the team with the one sober person. I was a wildcard (guessed for both teams, oops). 

-Talking to Andrew and his sister in their kitchen about life, and spending time with a small group of people after the mayhem of a ton of childhood friends. 

-Kathleen

-Kathleen

-Kathleeeeeeen

-I am just entirely too fond of my friends today

entirely too fond of my friends EVERY DAY

and

• sharks & minnows (and compound jellyfish)
• tournament of chicken fights (Lexie has small shoulders)
• mojitos (doctored)
• inebriated pajama-racing Matt to my car for spare blankets (and winning)
• Andrew sleeping on my knee (“squishier than boy legs; I approve”)
• stealing shirts and towels (semi-effective mosquito shields)
• everybody with chlorine hair (everybody)
• “if we met now do you think we would have become frie-” “NO. HA. REALLY? NO.” - says everybody
• “when I met her I hated her because everybody liked her and I couldn’t be that perfect”
• “when we met each other we were like, nope, don’t know her, better stay on opposite sides of the room”
• “I love you”
• “I love you”
• “I love you”
• “I love you all”
• “You’re all wonderful”
• “You’re so weird”
• “You’re the best”
• “You’re so hot”
• “You’re fantastic”
• “You’re too good at this game”
• “I hate you I hate you TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME”
• “would you rather-” “no, stop, my mom in the body of an elephant-sized duck” “think of the science!”
• one solid hour of conversation about boob problems and gender socialization and friendship-relations with A Bro
• I GOT TO KISS SHEILA A LOT OF TIMES ON HER CHLORINE HAIR AND BUMP MY KNEES INTO HER WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING
• breakfast and coffeeeeeeee
• The Andrew Parents: so cute, so smart, so good (wedding stories, life stories, stories stories, conversations, jokes, serious things, beautiful things, love love love)
• The Andrew

This is so self-indulgent because only like five of my followers could possible care about the happy things in my life to read all of this, but, like, Kathleen is wonderful and I should just hire her to write my TILT lists and by the way we are ALL MOVING INTO ANDREW’S HOUSE.

(P.S. Kathleen, it was composite jellyfish, not compound jellyfish, because that allowed me to make my lame architecture joke about how composite jellyfish were like composite materials in that composite materials have always been the material of tomorrow and always would be ha ha haaaaa??)

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Things I Love Today: HAHAHA I Forgot to Talk About My Internship edition

-on my second day of work, after I told my boss I’d never taken a steel course before, he handed me the AISC manual and said, “This’ll be hard. Ask lots of questions. You’ll figure it out.” 

-!!!!!!!

-So basically it’s only been one week so far and I’m in love with this job

-Doing actual calculations for actual real buildings help what is this is this what being grown up feels like

-I’m not really sure how much I’m supposed to talk about the actual projects we do so I’m trying to keep this pretty vague but it’s so neat to see how specifications/design criteria changes for different types of buildings/uses of buildings

-Also I’ve met a lot of architects from the other side of the office. One of them even went to my high school, and we bonded over how much we hated it! And the next day he said my calculus teacher said hello!

-Also I’m hoping that in the future, when structural work is slow/they don’t have anything to hand off to me, they’ll let me run off and ask the architects for work

-But in the mean time, I’m looking over requirements for the ARE exams to help put together a structural engineering study guide for the architects (oh noooo, this totally doesn’t sound like something I’d be doing anyway when I start the architectural licensing process…wait) (I mean that’s like seven years away but whatever)

-I sit next to two young crazy cat ladies and they are absolutely wonderful

-Also not an internship-thing but an architecture-thing: Andrew’s dad said he could introduce me to his architect-friend in San Francisco if I ever thought I’d be interested in going out there and I was just like…!! Berkeley! Bay Area! DUH

-And I really just want to host a big dinner and invite all the family members who told me that deciding to study architecture and civil engineering was a stupid plan that would leave me bankrupt and stare at them until they crawl away in shame because even though I will not be nearly as ~financially secure~ as if I had studied medicine, life is pretty damn great right now.

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Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937. 

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs. 

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’. 

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli. 

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

I’d like a movie about her life too, please.

wasn’t she doing it with frida AH YES THANK YOU RISKYCURIOSITY

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