It is the Birthday of the sweetest little 5 yr old girl today! Hooray! Everyone tells you when you're young that the older you get, the faster time flies. You never imagine yourself saying or feeling these things, or relating with these "ancient folk" but it happens. It's also amazing how sometimes the most honest and deep conversations are had with little kids who haven't yet really formed bias or stereotypes about the world and don't have the same filters that I guess we develop over time. Anyways - that's a diversion from the point! Happy 5th Birthday to Miss Lucy :)
Anyhow, I find it TRULY amazing that 4 days ago I couldn't find something to do if I tried.... well besides clean and shop. And 4 short days later I am overwhelmed by how much I NEED to do and how little time there is to do it. Not that I am complaining, but I am certainly amazed! The ramp up period was a short one and already tomorrow I need to submit my thesis proposal (maximum of 5 pages - which is impossible to begin with) and the problem is not so much that I don't know what I want to do.... it's that I want to do everything. Here is a short sample of the first draft....
"The phenomenon of Urban Sprawl and the seemingly unwavering “All American Dream” has had significant impact on Urban culture and development of private, public and collected spaces throughout North America. It may have been possible at one point to trace the relationships and interactions between people, spaces, physical and ideological exchanges and to map or quantify the successes and failures of a very physical and tangible lifestyle. In a digital age where people are inundated from a very young age with digital communication, over stimulation, pseudo interactions and mass information do these connections and relationships exist in the same way? Is it true that one could question whether or not the physical world as a result holds more or less significance while life is continually lived less in the physical and more frequently in the digital. Can physical space be designed to consider this cultural shift and to encourage or promote a reasonable balance of physical and imagined interaction?
In Alberta particularly, the rapid growth and development of oil industry has led to boom and bust economies which at times experience unprecedented growth in terms of physical size and proportion. Development patterns and construction methods in residential areas have progressed very little in the last +/- 50 years while the culture and society have been greatly influenced by incredible advances in technology, intercommunication and scientific understanding. The common themes of this Thesis include questions related to Human scale and Sustainable Living with particular attention to residential spaces and healthcare projects within the Urban sphere. "
Right? What the crap am I even talking about? There are about a thousand ideas in there and if you have no idea what my point of it all is... don't worry, I don't think I do either. If someone figures it out before 7pm my time tomorrow - please! Email me. I guess I kind of thought that an extra year off would help me clarify my intentions and goals, and instead it just muddied the waters even more with more ideas and interests! I would like to know, study and design everything.
So I'm not going to write too much more, but that's where I'm at. I hope that everyone is doing pretty good and I'll try to keep writing somewhat often as the craziness continues!
Love you all!
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