Right! The last blog I did was a bit of a cop-out, so I’m going to write a real one today! So what’s happened in the world of student life and architectural strife? Well, at this moment, I sit here, looking- with bloodshot eyes, at the ground floor plan of the Schroder house, which is already quite a small building, printing at 1:100 scale (quite small) with the worse printing quality I’ve ever seen. Not only that, but the elevations don’t match up to the plans and this is what the department has given me in order to build my scale model and use for analysis? Fantastic! So I’m trying to make some sense of it now and put it onto vectorworks, but its taking forever- as you’d expect. So I’ve decided to take a break, write this blog and then sleep, since I’ve done very little sleeping this week.

The family made a visit down to Portsmouth this week, which I was very grateful for, since I was starting to feel homesick at the start of the week. They stayed in a hotel at the South of Portsmouth for four nights which was awesome, because it meant four hot meals! When they arrived and took the frozen meals my mum had kindly pre-cooked for me off of the car, I swear the suspension lifted about 6 inches higher due to the massive weight of these things, now my freezer is filled to the brim with tasty goodness and I’m pretty sure that I could survive without going outside for a good couple of weeks. Not only this, but every day after my lectures, they took me out and about around town, buying things for me and basically spoiling me rotten. After a month of living on my own it was like heaven to be given something other than pasta, chicken and sauce. For example, the day before, I’d eaten not much more than a slice of toast and the fridge was perpetually bare.

One of the best things that I was bought by my kind family was an amazing flat screen TV for my room, which I am watching now- whilst doing my work (of course). One of the first programmes I watched on it, however, was ‘Teenagers: Embarrassing bodies,” on channel four... if you have time, go check out the website- I’m sure it’ll be as grotesque as the TV show. Seriously, there was no need for most of the shots that they took. I was thinking, shows like this are practically modern-day freak shows... we still have the same old morbid curiosity for looking at others less fortunate than ourselves.

Alas, another sodding fire-alarm’s gone off, I’ve just gotten in from the freezing cold and I am certainly not amused! So I’m going to call it a day and hopefully catch a few Z’s before carrying on with my hideous project.