We received a refund check from our insurance company. I had it with me Sunday when we went downtown with the intent to deposit it, but instead it was forgotten. When I got home I realized I no longer had it and it must have fallen from a pocket.
Monday I called the insurance company to cancel the check and issue us a new one.
Tuesday we received an envelope with the check and this note in it:
"Found this on the street. (Pacific Ave)
In Front of Borders.
Figured you could use it."
There was no identifying return information. Thank you anonymous
nice person!
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
Today, in addition to being warm, is oddly quiet downtown. There is very little traffic, there are few people walking around, and I didn't even hear any street musicians as I walked around running errands. Was Halloween night that taxing on everyone?
The main qualities for the project formed the mainframe of the topological surface. The software output consisted of an extensive array of subtly varying surface conditions. According to their performative behavior the population of over one hundred individual entities where scrutinized for their fitness according to different criteria, such as the potential to fulfill the program, the performance as structural entity and the affect generated by its appearance. This process reduced potential candidates to a very small number. Finally this candidates ran trough a series of algorithms (various remeshings, subdivisions, optimizing the size of the spatial pockets etc.) which eliminated all candidates but one.
This technique can be described as an evolutionary process driven by a series of intensive forces, such as the specific compartmentisation of the pouches, the loadbearing qualities of curvilinear conditions and the allover sensual experience of the space. The numerous explorations and investigations of SPAN into the nature of topological bodies, throughout the recent years, served as basis for the design process. One of the results of these investigations was a series of models only dedicated to seamless, continuous circulations within architectural bodies and apertures in complex curved geometries. These two fundamental architectural conditions, opening and circulation, are discussed in the project of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010 in an alternative way.
The lecture describes the design process of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, as well as the construction method. The lecture depicts the advanced fabrication methods involved in the construction of the Project, such as the use of simulation softwares, building information modeling and CNC fabrication.
Yesterday my brother invited me over to play his drum kit while he played bass, then guitar, then vintage tenor saxophone.
Sailor Babo came along, of course.
It was fun. In the past I've felt too self-conscious to even play around my brother. Yay Ladies Rock Camp! Hopefully my brother will invite me back.
Then we went to an instrument store, and I found the perfect drum kit for my 516 square foot dwelling unit.
It would make a big dent in my savings, but I'm considering taking the plunge, perhaps in a couple of weeks.
This song is the second to last song on my new "workout with Yo La Tengo" playlist, one of several playlists I recently made for use on the elliptical machine in the gym.
from an undead french prostitute. trick? or treat?
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
yays:
- I received free pizza (and salad) delivered to my door last night for being a "super customer" - which undoubtedly means I've spent something like $1,000 on pizza from Pagliacci since I've lived here. But anyway. Free pizza!
- Coming to terms with my doubts about this business venture I'm undertaking. Not getting over them, but honestly dealing with them.
- Although I did not get immediate contract work, it is clear that I've still "got it" and the work is starting to flow again, which means I may be able to sustain my urban bachelor(ette) standard of living and not move to a goat farm in sweden. Maybe.
- Dark (almost black) hair again for the seasonal hair shift.
- Last week: Barbara Ehrenreich and Rachel Grimes on consecutive nights.
- Fasting today means not having to deal with food prep.
- Workouts at homebody's secret gym! (It's not really secret, it is in her condo building, but compared to 24-hr fitness, it's secret).
- Reading Bend Sinister by Nabokov for the first time. Poetic absurdism? It's wonderous.
- The magic of Xanax.
- M-F-ing UTI.... again. Cranberries are my friends.
- Really don't feel like doing much of anything, so I'm spending too much time just sort of treading water.
- Defaulting on a couple of credit cards. Not really my idea.
- The idea of "work" for money still makes me feel a little filthy.
- I'm never going to lose weight at this rate. Step up my game? Or buy new pants?
