My teacher says porca mazeria is a really polite way of saying, "oh darn!" However, when I use google translator it says something different... Although Yahoo babelfish has something different. When I ask my teachers, they always say it just means oh darn. (And one of them uses it often, and he doesnt seem the type to actually swear)
Hey everybody! So we have presentations today for studio and then we're done with school. Although, I'll have to write a paper for my "independent study" on Management by Design sometime soon. So that's quite a bother. Anyway, the week leading up to studio presentations is always a bit exciting, there's always a lot to do and too much to think about. However, my 5.5 year old IBM laptop has a way of making things even more exciting. While surfing the internet one day, it just froze up and I couldn't even restart it in "safe mode" without getting the Blue Screen of Death. That was on Tuesday, so two days before final jury and it died. Luckily, IBM's come equipped with a "rapid restore" feature so I could extract my project files from the broken computer. Then, I had to completely reinstall windows and all other programs that I need to do my architecture work. This took about 10 hours to do completely. More or less. So this was no good. The next day my IBM decides to just turn off sometimes. No warning, nothing. Black screen, hard drives off, need to completely start over as if the computer was always off. This can be a bit unsettling while working on projects. Thankfully it only happened twice (once while installing a program, which i was about 3/4 of the way through and had to completely restart which took another hour or two) and once in the middle of me photoshopping a drawing, so that set me back another half hour or so. So needless to say, my project isn't as coherent and graphically strong as I had previously planned. Thankfully, it is holding out, I did print out my boards, and I did finish up my studio work. Just today, while checking my internet, the battery stopped charging even though it was plugged in. So I have approximately 2 hours of laptop time before I'm done for good. Unless, the power cord magically works again. We shall see. Needless to say, this is probably my last blog until I'm back in America. School is done today (officially) I still have to write the paper, I go to Siena with our teacher on Friday, go to some museums, pack, finish business in Firenze on Saturday, then off to Milan on Sunday, and then I fly home on Monday. I'm looking forward to going home. Our laundry machine has been broken since Sunday, I'm running out of clothes, the landlord hasn't fixed it, I'm getting sick, and my trusty thinkpad has been letting me down as of late. I am tired of schoolwork, am ready to just be done with everything, and I'm especially ready to be paying for things in dollars. I suppose you could say I'm a bit homesick. I'm really looking forward for it being my birthday, christmas, and seeing my family. Hopefully I'll have my paper finished (on the plane rides (I have 4 flights on Monday)) I can put it into my desktop computer back at home, and then email it to the professors back at Kent. Then, I can find random presents for people, find a place to live for the spring semester, and then just be a vegetable over the holiday break. That would be great. So I haven't decided yet if I'm going to continue to blog once I return to America. I suppose I could. I have plenty of languages and words that I could continue to translate for your enrichment. Meh, we'll see. Until next time, when I'll be back in Cleveland... Ciao ciao and thanks for following my blog
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