Good as new

The Pteranodon has been saved! Pteranodonnie's head may have fallen off one night about a week ago, but he didn't injure anyone. He was honestly very structurally stable, but even with all of our calculations we weren't able to predict the effect gravity would have on the glue we used to attach the head. Looking back now, we probably should've tied the head to the body in the first place, but it happened and now it is fixed. I'm glad he was able to stay high and flying even with all of the annoying negative comments from neighboring studios about him possibly killing someone. I mean, that's a little dramatic if you ask me. I think Luke and I are both glad that he is back to his full glory.

I CAN say I attended the lecture tonight, but I CAN'T say that I paid attention. I was slightly more immersed in my systems homework that had the entire class stumped. Once we figured it out as a group, I was able to finish my homework and pay attention to the last 20 minutes of the lecture. Those were probably the most valuable minutes to the lecture anyway. All I really gathered from the entire thing was something about symmetry, until the end when he talked about context. As architects, we have a job to make our buildings fit into their context or surroundings. There are times when standing out works, but in order to be successful, your work should work within its context. As people, we all have that internal instinct to doubt ourselves. This doubt rears its ugly head when it comes to design decisions. But, in order to use this doubt to our advantage, we have to use it to force ourselves to make a decision that will improve the building and the context it is made for.