exciting design-y day. I FINALLY finished up a house I've been working on forever, including shearwall calculations, and get to start another now. Architecture for Humanity had the opening of their first of eight model houses, construction-managed by my new housemate Jenny. and I found an old LJ friend of mine has successfully launched a NYC design firm, sub-studio. (she is also keeping a blog of interesting design she's come across.) also, I found out my fellow summer-06 interns from Yestermorrow have been doing well by themselves, one as assistant to the creative director of Bonnaroo this past weekend, one working for Daniel Liebskind, two working in Central America with natural building (and now I miss being there, as it's officially been over a year since giving birth to my plywood table and discovering my furniture-lust). and we got a new recruit at the GCCDS, James, meaning us Women Of Architecture have to curb the estrogen a bit.

in unrelated exciting news, I have my first clarinet lessons since high school tonight, with a woman with a masters in clarinet performance. I have great hopes for getting back into studying my first instrument again and have dug out all my old orchestral music from h.s. festivals and related dorky things in a fit of nostalgia.