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Well, well, well, I hope all of you enjoyed your Valentines Day and your President’s Day weekend! It was certainly a welcome holiday after a really busy week.

Well, to tell the truth, my week started out busy and then got slightly less so. The project that my team has been working on received two starkly different pieces of information: first, the county approved to project for construction; then, the school took away our funding. So all the work we have done this quarter was just for practice. But without skipping a beat, my professor helped get our group back on our feet by inspiring us to rise to a new challenge. Now we have to be a lot more creative and it is a much more exciting design challenge.

On Valentine’s days, my friend had a wonderful little concert at her house, which doubles as an art gallery and a music venue. The bands were really wonderful (an evergreen faculty member was the guitarist in one of them), and all my friends were there. Then, I drove up to Seattle with a couple of friends who were playing a show at a house party. We actually didn’t know any one there, but they were very nice and liked my friends music.

I was going to do a lot of homework this weekend, but then my roommates and I started a 1000 piece puzzle, and spent the whole day working on it. So I gotta go do some work!

See you kids later!

Hey folks!

For those of you who came to preview day, I hope you had a great time and learned some inspiring things about Evergreen!

I had a slightly busier week than usual, which is saying a lot, because I am normally quite active with work and school and friends and everything. But this week I was functioning at full capacity everyday, sometimes for 20 hours a t a time. My whole body was buzzing with energy; I was excited to do work. I spent a god many hours in the studio outside of class time working on drawings and on other homework, sometimes taking a break to go give a tour or do a housing host.

On Wednesday, I spent the night in my friend Joey’s art studio again. Only this time, we went to Safeway and bought doughnuts and Sunny D and cookies. I stayed up until 5 a.m. doing homework, though we took small intermission to paint mustaches on each other and watch Goodburger (remember Keenan and Kel?), and I fell asleep on a couch, and woke up at 9 a.m. Thursday morning to go to class.

I’m incredibly busy, but I love it, and I’m starting to realize that this is what college is al about.

I had a very rewarding week. My class took a field trip to Portland, and visited four locations that had to do with sustainability. My favorite place was the Portland ReBuilding Center. They are a non-profit organization that deconstructs buildings by hand and resells the materials. It reduces landfill waste, and also provides a valuable service to the community by selling the materials 50-90% cheaper than what they are valued at. They also built their entire warehouse and office out of their inventory! I’m telling you, it is a wonderful magical place! So Inspiring!

On Friday I saw my friend’s band perform and get broadcast on a local radio station. Then everyone went out for milkshakes. Life is good.

This Saturday was the Westside Arts Walk, organized by a group of community organizers known as the Raccoon Collective. It is an all day event where people open up their houses to display art and have workshops and people cook and sell food and bands play. This year, everything was delicious: the art, the food, and the music!

Now it’s Sunday, and I didn’t watch the super bowl, but I’m ok with that, because I didn’t participate in one of the largest consumer spectacles of the year. Instead I did homework and attended a potluck hosted by some friends of mine who are trying to start up a literary publication about life in Olympia. It is going to be awesome! You should check it out at www.timefighters.org