info overload

Lately I've been feeling that I have waay to many things going on (or irons in the fire, as we say in Danish)....!

Basketball is coming to a close for the year - meaning that we have been training, like, 4 times a week lately! Like the "good old days", almost.. Tomorrow's a knock-out game against a supposedly horridly bad team, and next weekend is the finals tournament in Sheffield - a full 3½ days. Hopefully we'll walk away the champions of the British University Sports Association's Women's Basketball League! We have a few tough games ahead, and I am looking forward to it.

However, uni is also pushing ahead, and a new draft of my essay on social sustainability in planning processes is due soon. Plus, we have a preliminary crit (i.e. critique/presentation) in the main project real soon (in which we are studying temporal development and planning, flexibility in the built environment etc). And, we have a number of lectures every Tuesday, which again deal with entirely different issues. Today was Sir Terry Farrell, who turned out to be an incredibly inspiring and knowledgable fella with a lot to say about London and the processes involved in making city.

Not to mention my continuous discussions on religion and society with my contact in the "muslim world".

I'm not complaining.

It's just a lot to handle, even for my multitasking-accustomed brain. Somehow, I just hope that I can manage to juggle all these inputs, 'cause actually I find all of them very... shall we say, educational.

photos re: that new orchid

Here're a few snaps from today's sunny afternoon session at our place with N, obviously we were studying REAL hard! All photos courtesy our camera and N's talent :.)

(Please note the very fashionable and approximately 30 year old curtains.. so en vogue, think you not!)

We did actually work, and managed to draw up a basic strategy for the project. The project is coming along ok, but man, do we have a lot of work ahead.

Spring at last?

...not that it's been that terrible a winter this year, but I so look forward to spring and sun and more blooming trees and flowers...

I'm such a romantic. Maybe it was my visit at the Columbia Flower Market on Sunday, but suddenly I just need flowers :.)

I tried to fulfill this need by purchasing (a remarkably bargain priced) white orchid, which is currently keeping me company on the living room table. Very nice, although I am a bit worried that my trusty, 1/3-as-tall orchid, which has accompagnied me from cph on the train to aalborg, and in various long-haul moving vans through europe will become jealous. But no worries, that one will for ever have a special place in my heart, at least as long as it survives my mistreatings. I am not one to favour one orchid over another.

los angeles:DAY/NIGHT

so, I'm back....

After a month of pretty hefty busy-ness including but not limited to(!): the concluding of my term project, presenting it, making a portfolio for all work done so far at school, and packing up to go to LA + actually going there and coming back(!), I am back in cold, snowy London again. I have a week before the rest of the group comes back, and the programme at uni starts up again. Very, very nice. Time to recuperate.

It's beautiful though, and that is some consolation for leaving a warming LA, that reached well beyond 30 degrees C a couple of days before I left! However, wearing wool in layers and avoiding leaving the house as much as possible, I have been cozying about, cleaning up and doing nothing. Sleeping. I definately attribute that to the jetlag, although I am not sure whether it is true or not ;)

It was a nice trip, and especially the visits we had as a group to a number of architectural studios were interesting. More about that later!

Just a post to let people know that I AM alive - I've just been very busy.