My life is packed, yet I am unflustered.
Which doesn’t make sense. Submission of my dissertation draft, as according to my countdown widget, is a pasty 8 days 16 hours 14 minutes and 5 seconds away right now. Yet, I’m feeling a sense of peace.
School kicked off with a 3 week intensive workshop conducted by, if Wikipedia is to be believed, a French political advisor and urban designer. But of course he doesn’t disclose his political affiliations, and thus this goes down into the annals of speculation. The class is made up of students from, at last count, 10 different countries, many working professionals, some government officials, all great people. But I digress.
I wouldn’t say that the workload from this workshop is light. It isn’t. But it isn’t particularly taxing either; yet when I gets home in the evening, sitting down in front of the computer to type out paragraphs of academic essays is not exactly something appealing to me. As always, I lose the motivation to work on it, in no small part due to the fact that I’ve already nailed the content in point form. As anyone who knows me, the cession of intellectual work and the beginning of industry bores me.
And at this moment, irony strikes. I should have taken the last 15 minutes to type my dissertation.
‘the cession of intellectual work and the beginning of industry bores me’
aww man. genius. haha.
i actually wish there were more such people. architecture is full of peeps for who inflate the value of industry for esteem issues. haha. not that that’s a bad thing per se, well….
=)
Well, without industry, architects will be all Rem Koolhaas, lots of talk, lots of ideas, but little completed work to show for. Or like Da Vinci (not that I’m comparing myself to any of them mind you!), whose attention span is so short the moment an idea is trashed out he abandons it for another puzzle. Sheer brilliance but little to show for as well.
I guess we need the industrious peeps. But oh I’d so wish that they’ll QUIT giving me the guilt trip and evil eye for apparently coming up with something at the very last minute and getting away with it! Hey, I do after all think HARD about it beforehand, I just don’t commit my hand to a gazillion parti sketches/ shots in the dark. (Man, I’m such a biatch!)
Thanks!,