It is exactly 3:27AM, and I am just getting into bed. I had a long, productive day and finally worked through the design block that had been ailing me on my project. The solution is simple and obvious, it just had to be worked out.

Anyhow, just saying hello. Here is a list of things that are making me happy right now at 3:29AM:

• Not having to wake up to an alarm. It is a rare occasion, but it happens tomorrow, and I couldn’t be giddier about anything right now.
• My car not being towed and/or there not being any tickets under my windshield wiper which happened 3 fucking times last week. I heart LA.
• Sufjan Stevens. I admittedly was a little late recognizing how good he was, but I have been loving Illinoissince my drive back to California a couple of months ago. I played it for my studiofriends who are all a little bit mainstream (though open-minded) and they were blown away. That was exciting.
• My studiofriends. Their work, their opinions, their drunken idiotness. I love them.
• Harvesting. I will upload some photos of my Sunday. Studiofriend Danny has a vineyard and invited all of us to join his incredibly Italian family to pick grapes. There was a lot of picking, eating, drinking and laughing. We worked for about 11 hours and picked enough grapes to make 3500 bottles of wine. Yeah, 3500.
• Rhino 3.0. Though it is a little bug-infested still, it is the Cadillac of design programs. it has freed me from the constraint known as AutoCad. I honestly think that I have opened AutoCad only once this semester. All hail NURBS.
• Realizing that Rapid Prototyping and CNC’ing and Water jet and Laser Cutting are all well and good, but not life changing and that nothing beats an X-acto and a straight edge.
• Sweaters tied around my neck and being ultra-ultra preppy.
• Thinking about December. Seeing my family and hopefully going camping with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, nephew and niece. I miss them all very much.

More later, and some photos. Cheers everyone.