random tangents

Paper, Paper Everywhere and Not a Page to Burn--to keep warm...
it is actually getting pretty cold up here now...daytime highs 50s with 15-20mph north west wind(aka wind chill of 45) and night time lows down to low 40s/high 30s...

YEAH! Extended deadlines!!
my freakout session was induced by the extended deadline of friday to have an iterative version of the thesis paper due....today being friday i'm sure you are questioning my above excitement.
well, last night at 11pm i was really thinking about it and simply said "f*ck it". i went to bed, and slept in until close to 9:15 with my extended deadline meeting with nadir(advisor) at 10:30. i printed what i had--around 4 pages--and went to go meet with him....
i had looked up and read over 10 articles and suggested readings in less than a week, and while i needed to finish making revisions to my paper, you have to understand that i DO NOT have a digital copy of the proposal to work off of....meaning that all i have is a printed copy, so i have to retype a the proposal--40 pgs with photos/images--and the guy had given me 3 days....THIS is why i said "f*ck it" and went to bed, because granted i'd like to think i could save the world, but i'd rather save my sanity....

nadir's response: well you need to finish retyping it and adding the newest bibliographical sources...we ended up discussing what my program would be and how i should mold my thesis to include an appropriate response to the influence of hurricane katrina on my site....
for those of you who forgot my site--i posted photos in a post in august i think??---you've seen it as recently as early to mid-september.....on cnn....it wasn't in the 9th ward, but it was in Treme, the predominantly african american neighborhood just north of the french quarter....there were two different sets of housing projects in that area...the one they had footage of on cnn was the housing project right across from the intersection of my site....under a good four feet of water, and the new was portraying the people in these housing projects as being very involved in the looting and chaos....i only half-way beleive it though...

so anyways, he said my theoretical basis was fully covered once i include the readings that i've done, and he said my case studies were more than appropriate to both the process that i'm intending in the design AND were appropriate to the site(being located under a freeway/dealing with the freeway)....so if i can work on the program and analysis, i will be done with my requirements for the writing section to be submitted to Tulane.....
BUT i still havent' started on the diagramming and visual analysis of the site and other context photos....which is also required both in the paper and for the presentation....

SO to recap: i need to finish retyping the paper by tuesday @ 10am...i need to at that point i have a week to work on basic visual analysis and diagramming to include into the power point--dry run on nov. 22...then i have another week to make revisions to presentation and paper before the board review on dec. 9th.

plus i still need to keep up with other course material....i have to catch up on some rhino(3d modeling program) assignments--only about 2, and i need to work on that paper for ali rahim's course(publishing possiblity!!!--OOOHHH MMYY GOODD!!!!--calm down erin, there are 10 people in the course and he'll probably choose a penn student's paper before yours just to be fair...)....ok got it in check...

Song of the day: This is what i need to keep telling myself, work hard, but make sure to get enough sleep to actually function....."Time is on my side....yes it is...." by [the ones, the onlies] THE Rolling Stones....

posted by ekeith @ 12:12 PM