Sooo - Oatman's gone to crit the Aaaaalien studio and since i haven't posted in a while i thought i'd start again. Lately i've been into alot of theoretical/philosophical thoughts... i get trapped in my mind and begin to only be able to "see" things as compositions of questions and inadequacies. Needless to say, my exploration of philosophies has completely depricated my mind and ruined my work habits. I sit in studio and instead of thinking about the project-at-hand... my mind wonders what was really going on in Tschumi's head... or when i'm going to get the chance to pick up the book again and read. Here's an interesting site that discusses Tschumi:http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~bsjwong/tschumi.htm
Strangely, Enclosures is the only class that has actually grabbed me. I don't know exactly what it is about this class, but i love sitting down and researching materials and then coming up with novel ways for them to interact. I understand architecture is not just a material study, but i wish there was some way for me to think through architecture in the same way as i work through Enclosures. The work takes an all-nighter, but for this class it doesn't bother me... my back kills and my hand is tired but i can honestly say i enjoy every minute of it. I feel like to most people, Enclosures is busy-work and "pointless" at times, but to me it makes the most sense of all.
Most of all right now i wish i could get motivated to do anything. My strongest motivations have been for Enclosures and Hockey... even my writing class has fallen to the way-side [i've grown to see it as an information-obsessed discussion, where the professor is extremely interested in celebutant-type stories and news-action drama, tv-based episodes... things that i am completely detatched from and don't have much of a say in... foruntately/unfortunately]. I am motivated to read and think, but not really about the things i should be reading and thinking about. I feel like i should be interested in learning all the computing that i have been taught, to keep up and keep in practice with this process of work, but for some reason i lose interest in it easily. Well, this is definitely just a rambleee of random topics... pathetically academic-based, but this is all i really have right now... architecture is a trap. 
Hockey last night was glorious... haha probably my best game. I got the puck at one point and wanted to "drive" it down the center because everyone else was pretty distant behind me, but some big, fast kid came up and knocked me over. I was really proud of the team last night, too... we were short a few players... with only 3 subs and we were playing the only other undefeated team in the league. They were excellent skaters, but had no knowledge of how to work the ice and create plays. Somehow our team was constantly putting ourselves in the right positions and Alicia played a strong goal, protecting a dozen or more level attempts. I think we all skated the fastest and most accurate of any other game that we have played, it made the team look like bonified skaters at times. I just hope that even when the other team isn't putting the pressure on us, like this one had, that we could skate and keep up the tempo like we did last night. The final score was 0-0, but despite the numbers i think it was the most successful display so far. Well, that's all for now... i'll probably be generating more updates over break while i'm bored in old cohoes.
-c
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