“Now, there are still a bunch of houses (particularly my sister’s) that, as soon as I walk into them, I start imagining how I would reconfigure all the rooms.”
Sort of like how men mentally undress women when they meet them?
Did you already dissect the article about flea markets in the NYT Metropolitan section over the weekend? An unfortunate article, apparently by a young and inexperienced writer.
The work the internal counsel do on my behalf at The Death Star is some of the most mind-numbingly boring stuff I’ve ever seen. I wonder how many of them watched L.A. Law, The Verdict, Erin Brockovich, Inherit the Wind, etc. and imagined it being much more glamorous.
Going through our reno, I belatedly realized that I would have liked architecture, too. I never considered it growing up because I couldn’t draw worth a damn. I just could not imagine it as a profession I could do. Had I known the direction things would take with computers, would have been a different story. I had a blast mapping out the rental kitchen on the Ikea software and I drew some sketches for our parlor floor using our archtiect’s grids that ended up as the basis for our plan. I really did enjoy learning all kinds of arcane stuff about house construction, although I did not appreciate it at the time because I was stressed due to how fast we were hemorrhaging money and running out of places to live in the interim. Now, there are still a bunch of houses (particularly my sister’s) that, as soon as I walk into them, I start imagining how I would reconfigure all the rooms.
My father really wanted me to be a chemical engineer, primarily because he was an industrial carpenter at a chemical pant/R&D facility, where the chemical engineers were the top dogs.
I thought about both civil engineering and architecture, but since I had a talent for programming in high school I went into computer science instead.
I’m not sure what I would do if I could start over.
Perhaps civil engineering or finance.
^^^^^^
Then again, presumably they knew what they were getting themselves into doing corporate law…
“Now, there are still a bunch of houses (particularly my sister’s) that, as soon as I walk into them, I start imagining how I would reconfigure all the rooms.”
Sort of like how men mentally undress women when they meet them?
I also wanted to be an architect. But then I took mechanical drawing in high school and quickly changed my mind.
Did you already dissect the article about flea markets in the NYT Metropolitan section over the weekend? An unfortunate article, apparently by a young and inexperienced writer.
Scott- can you please email me at bx2bklyn at g mail.com? I have a question for you- if you wouldn’t mind.
The work the internal counsel do on my behalf at The Death Star is some of the most mind-numbingly boring stuff I’ve ever seen. I wonder how many of them watched L.A. Law, The Verdict, Erin Brockovich, Inherit the Wind, etc. and imagined it being much more glamorous.
Going through our reno, I belatedly realized that I would have liked architecture, too. I never considered it growing up because I couldn’t draw worth a damn. I just could not imagine it as a profession I could do. Had I known the direction things would take with computers, would have been a different story. I had a blast mapping out the rental kitchen on the Ikea software and I drew some sketches for our parlor floor using our archtiect’s grids that ended up as the basis for our plan. I really did enjoy learning all kinds of arcane stuff about house construction, although I did not appreciate it at the time because I was stressed due to how fast we were hemorrhaging money and running out of places to live in the interim. Now, there are still a bunch of houses (particularly my sister’s) that, as soon as I walk into them, I start imagining how I would reconfigure all the rooms.
lechacal- I am not going to say I told you so, but….:)
You could make a drive image (What version of windows are you using? ) on dvd discs too. I’ll email you.
My father really wanted me to be a chemical engineer, primarily because he was an industrial carpenter at a chemical pant/R&D facility, where the chemical engineers were the top dogs.
I thought about both civil engineering and architecture, but since I had a talent for programming in high school I went into computer science instead.
I’m not sure what I would do if I could start over.
Perhaps civil engineering or finance.