timetables timetables

well many keep asking me about TIME.
here, they don't use the word "schedule", its always "timetable". of course.


i have a few that you might be wondering about:

1. DAILY TIME

everything in london starts later than the USA. no one here would be caught dead meeting before 9:30am. clearly, this is perfect for me. (however due to the time required for travelling across the city, i actually do have to get up at around 7am each morning. ek. sometimes i oversleep of course and have to disrupt my roommates shower schedule. oops! not good.)

the advantage is still in my favor though, as everything at my school starts atleast 20 minutes late. often much later. seems architects were never ones for keeping time! so far, i appear quite prompt in the eyes of everyone else. yay.

john street (ref.prev.post) is open from 9am until 12midnight daily - with an occaissional extension until 2am if previously arranged with the tutors (prior to a big deadline). i typically leave each night around 11:30 if i want to take the tube home, but most often i take the bus around 12:00, which is a bit more comfortable. the buses are slower naturally, so i often get home around 12:45/1:00am. (but please don't worry mom, the bus stop is close to my flat)

2. WEEKLY TIME

the weeks go so fast for me. my school is organized according to weeks, this fall-er, autumn-term is 10 weeks in duration (well, plus some extra non-official time that is "recommended"). we are apparently on week 7 already, yikes! each week they print and post a weekly agenda with events, courses, announcements etc for the whole school. often there are many good lectures and exhibitions in the evenings at the main school. i feel like i have just started adjusting and that perhaps it is currently more like week 3? nope, guess not.

each week i have a series of studio time, seminars, and software tutorials. i have no electives and it is all used to compliment each other. like this:

Monday: 10:00am-all day studio course: Parametric Urbanism. (yeah, figure that one out!) also, 6:00pm regular monday night lectures at the main school. 8:00 eat cheap soup on the street. recommended to spend rest of the evening in studio.

Tuesday: 10am-12:30pm Design as Research [seminar]; 12:30-2pm New Anatomies of Architecture [seminar]; afternoon/evening in studio course. in 6 person groups, we present the material in our required readings to the rest of the class and have discussions based on the topics. it is a lot of reading and most of it i have a hard time understanding, but it is very interesting and does all relate to our studio work somehow!

Wednesday: 10am-whenever is Studio course; 3pm-6pm Rhino [software tutorial]

Thursday: all day is expected Studio course

Friday: 10am-1pm Design Synthesis [seminar]; afternoon in studio; 7:00pm regular evening lecture series

Saturday: 10am-12:30pm 3dsMAX [software tutorial]; 1:30-4:00pm Maya [software tutorial]

Sunday: 10am-12:30pm Catia [softward tutorial]; 1:30-3:30pm Additional software tutorial vary, but almost always there is a double session of something. ugh.

3. MONTHLY TIME

hmm, what? crap, its almost thanksgiving?
i do laundry about once a month. in fact, i'm doing several loads right now.

it also seems i only see my roommates about twice a month, we had dinner the other night together for the second time ever. Armenian restaurant in Bayswater - amazing houmus!

i'll be in Paris for a short studio trip next month, after term ends around the 12th of December. i am looking forward to it, hoping to discover some more interesting things than just the regular tourist destinations i did when i was there in 2002. of course, being there to study urbanism, i'm sure we'll find something . . . besides wine and cheese - maybe :)
and then i'll be home in Minnesota for xmas. flying into Minneapolis on December 19th (i think) and back out on December 28th. i am planning to spend the new year in my new city, it should be quite neat - though i don't yet know anyone else who is going to be around for it . . . eeeeh.

4. YEARLY TIME

i will be here for a couple years - technically my program is 16 months, with my end-of-project being scheduled for end of January 2009, with final portfolio/documentation/response submission due in March 2009. what happens after that can't be known, but yes, yes, yes, i would like to work here for a bit. i think only then will i really know what it is like to LIVE in london.

visitors are highly encouraged, but definately contact me in regards to your ideas of timeframes, as school is intense and i will want to be able to have atleast one or two pints with you!

ok laundry is done. bedtime is here. time to shut the windows.