Another presentation tomorrow

I finished my drawings earlier than I thought today. Actually it’s because I was really tired both mentally and physically, and I decided to give up some of the details I was going to put on my drawings and model. But the whole thing still looks good. I think what I have for now is more than enough for the presentation tomorrow. I’ve done a good amount of work during the week. Now, it’s show time!

The lobby of the ground floor of this Jazz music center still looks like a toilet bowl in the floor plan. It looks more like a double layer birthday cake in the model, which makes sense…you eat food (take a 3-D form object), digest it (analyze it with parti diagrams), and finally it goes into the toilet (there’s your floor plan~)…right…? Hheeee… I’m just BS ing. It means I’m really tired and I can’t think straight right now.

I suggested a girl in the Chinese Church I used to go to come to my Spatial Composition class since she’s really interested in architectural design theories. I can see that she’s really enjoying the class. In fact, she’s way too excited about it. She likes to sit beside me to look at how I take notes (we need to do lots of drawings in this class). I can hear her talking to herself all the time, like “oh that’s great!” “wooohhh, that’s really interesting”. I start to regret about taking her to the class. Her murmuring has become so annoying to me and other people sitting next to her. I’ve tried to ask her to stop doing it, but I guess she just got so used to it. She intentionally stops for a while and starts murmuring again. Maybe for the next class I should bring some tapes with me, so that I can stick her mouth together when she starts talking to herself.

That lady also asked me to play piano for her next Wednesday for their praying meeting. I was surprised when she asked though. Hey lady, can’t you see I’m so busy right now? I even fell asleep in the class today. You heard in the class that we’ll have a big exam next Thursday and you’re asking me to play piano for you the night before the exam…well… do you think that’s possible? Um… actually, if you can stop coming to this class and bothering me with your talking or chewing food, that’ll be G-R-E-A-T. Thank you!

I’ve stopped going to that Chinese church since I came back to school in fall. I feel that church is a very strange Chinese community. They like to help each other, but they’re touching too much of the private part of each other’s life (I’m too nice to describe them that way… they’re just so gossip). Actually, it’s not only that church the whole Chinese community in UO is kind of weird. The strong ‘Chinese-ness’ of these people makes them very hard to fit into the American society. I’ve been trying to avoid get in contact with them because I know they’re not going to welcome me anyway. I don’t have the standard ‘Chinese-ness’ they require. Imagine if I go back to China after graduating, I would soon be drove crazy living in that weird world…

K, need to go to bed now. Good night, and wish me good luck tomorrow!