So I recently got a "callback" if you will for a really, really awesome job. There is a woman from Hudson, NY who manages a farm and is teaming up with a bakery/ restaurant and a magazine company to refurbish an old, 1900 neo-renaissance apartment building and an old, shingled barn/shed. Now if this doesn't want to make you cry of happiness like I did... then you mustn't have a heart. I drove down to Hudson the day after applying for the job to see the building and the barn and to meet the lady who requested this work. She is very friendly and young and the spaces were just to my muse. The building is a double-apartment complex with huge ceilings and rooms, there is a grandeur fireplace in every room and the bathrooms are bigger than my bedroom! The barn is also quite a character in itself. It must have been a cute little home for a horse, or maybeee two, in its day but now it's sadly wilting, and to be honest, I'm a bit afraid to climb the attic and take measurements because the whole south face of it is leaning at around 8 degrees and buckling is happening in various junctions about the other walls. She does want a wall section [yayayyayyy!] and elevation of the barn as well, so even though it's a bit dilapidated, it's still calling my name.
The tour and talk went very well from my point of view, this whole project is exciting to me and I hope that I expressed that to her, she is also very enthusiastic and kind of humorous... as the first place she took me to on the third floor was a doorway that opens out three-stories up into the backyard, and laughing at my reaction. So, my only problem now is that she said she would call me last night about clarifying plans for Monday... but its now 4:58, the next night. I know she runs a farm, so I hoping about a billion new corns popped up and they had to run out and harvest them really fast, but she'll call and tell me it's still on... there was one tid-bit of information that I wasn't so happy to hear. She is a very family-oriented person, she showed me across the street is her brother's fancy, well-to-do restaurant and now she's going to make this place into a dream and they will soon be running the block. But this wonderful brother also had a friend who was going to draw up these plans for her, only she never heard back from him... until she found me? I really hope this brother's friend doesn't come in and steal this dream job from me! I did already have one dream job this summer - working at camp - so I hope I haven't fulfilled my dream-jobs-for-the-summer quota... I mean camp was only 2 weeks long, can't I have just one more chance?
[and secretly, only now not so secret, I bought a new Ching book with a focus on drawing techniques to show off to her and to congradulate myself on getting my first archie job!... hopefully.... anddd there's another Ching book I found that I realllllyyyy want even more than I wanted this one, but its twenty dollars more ahem $65... so maybe that will be my 'job-well-done' book]
So if you're reading this, please, please, please pray for me that this works out - it could really be my new entry into enjoying architecture. I mean look at me now I'm as giddy as a little girl who got a pony for Christmas! Please don't take my pony away.
In other developments, I think I've decided on whereee I want to go to grad school - so long as RPI doesn't honestly, medically kill me... and it's England! I just looked at Oxford's applicaiton procedures and they are pretty intense. I also read someone's blog about applying to Oxford for a math degree, she was asked to draw some sort of graph on a whiteboard, but she didn't have a pen and they wouldn't give her one so she sat there and cried and then got declined... truly the makings of a fairytale, right? I just think that since grad school, as far as I can see for myeslf, will be one to two years, living abroad like that would be a dream and hopefully not too much of a hassle because it's for such a short time.
Now I would just have to decide what to go for? I'm pretty sure they don't have much architectural acoustics offered over in England, as I'm finding out most of that research is actually done in Boston, and my other problem is that Oxford's historic preservation/conservation degree focuses specifically on England, no where else... and while I'll appreciate English architecture it's not really all that tea and crumpits to me. Right now I'd like to learn more about the Gothic - har har not too obvious, right? after I pretty much shouted "I love the gothic!" when we walked into the only gothic church we saw in all of Italy - in Naples... yea I'm pretty sure the coffins opened to see what the hell I was shouting about. So, yes, the gothic, neo-ren, and also maybe 50's stuff like Corb haha but knowing me I won't be able to decide up to the day that I'm presenting my Master's thesis... yay for indecision being my worst trait ever. Who knows, maybe I could teach those people at Oxford a thing or two! hahahahahhaa... totally kidding, I don't want to cry at my interview.
Okay, well hopefully I will hear back from this lady soon.... I sent her an email around 2, so I hope all the corn harvesting has been really intense, but totally successful and I'll hear back soon.
- c
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