In all my years of architecture school and practice, there seems to be a pervasive myth that my job is pretty and easy. Here, I reveal the painful, ugly truth about why it takes so long to build a building, what it is exactly that we do, and why that's not creamer you smell in my coffee.
Hazel (left, tabby and curled up) and Maddy (right, semi-awake) remind you to watch your budgets this year and bring water and snacks so that you don't shop hungry. Or better yet, don't go out at all. We're doing Thanksgiving on Friday this year, as...
Is it just me, or is everyone ready for the four-day weekend? I had an all-morning coordination meeting today on TCMC, which was followed by another hour-long meeting with Howie over what he wants changed in the drawing set, because gloriosky! we...
When you do your hair in the morning, you spend a lot of time making the bangs fluff just right and the sides fan and curl just so. Even the top gets a little fluffing, doesn't it? But what about the back? Very few people remember that everyone sees...
My apologies for not posting sooner, y'all. I've been in five dimensions of pissed off.
I am a licensed architect. I've worked on the designs for and overseen the construction of close to half a million square feet of healthcare architecture in the...
Longtime WAD readers recall that my cat Maddy has abdominal small cell lymphosarcoma. In May, the vet oncologist said that she had four to six weeks to live.
'Twould seem Maddy had something to say about that.
Mysterious kitteh is being...