Tomorrow is my three-year anniversary with Steven. We aren’t able to spend any time together because he had to be at a conference in Indianapolis. He sent me the most adorable cards in the mail though. The first one I opened was a funny anniversary card with cats on it, and the second one was more serious, but at the end of it, Steven said “Only 2 more years ’till I can call you my wife!” I almost started crying when I read that! That was so sweet of him to send me those cards. I miss Steven. It is hard to be away from the person you enjoy spending your time with the most.
Enough sappiness. Staying in Ames for the weekend is a little bit more boring than I recall – probably because I have spent ALL of my day doing school work. Alejandra and I had a little bit of a brain fart and were unable to get much work done yesterday – so we had to do some catching up today. We are still working on basic diagrams to study the spaces within the Médiathèque, including another area and volume diagram. I worked on day on an affinities diagram, showing which spaces have similarities between them. The spaces labeled in the “bubbles” have inherent similarities – the cinemas, media stacks, offices, etc. The dotted green lines in between the bubbles link spaces that are similar because of the function they serve, for example, the three cinemas are in a bubble together that links to another bubble that holds the cinema lobby. And finally, there are four other types of lines that link spaces together based on their amount of security, public or private space, open or closed space and the type of environmental control. It looks like a big confusing mess, but it is an aid towards the next step – the adjacencies diagram. Hopefully we will get past all these silly diagrams tomorrow and begin to develop images that look like building plans and sections! So far I am having a lot of fun working with Alejandra. I feel like she lets me be more creative than I might be on my own.
I spent some time tonight trying to find tickets to fly to Rome in the beginning of January and back at the end of April. Almost all of the tickets I found were at least $800, which I cannot afford. I looked into flying into London then taking the european rail to Rome, but that was not as cost effective as I imagined it would be. I did find a student discounted ticket for $600. I will probably take that one, as I have been informed to have my ticket ready by October 3rd so I can apply for my student Visa. Ugh. I have way too much going on this semester.
