made it past final studio deadline intact, and WITHOUT an all-nighter.

but a 16-hour sleep session is always good.

of having a boyfriend who’s hand-drafting all his final projects:

you get to use his computer as a render farm.

I have now applied to over 100 architecture positions in Canada and internationally.

And still no job.

Besides a firm in China that gave me an offer and retracted it.

And a handful of offers for unpaid internships (modern-day slavery).

I sincerely hope that this is just a symptom of the economic situation today.

“…They live like this, they die like this, and their sons will do so after them. Perhaps one day it may be necessary for someone to dare to teach them to look unflinchingly at their defeat, to explain to them that in order to get on one’s feet again one must first admit that one is down on the ground. Perhaps someone will have to tell them the truth one day. But I myself do not have the courage to do so.”
From Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

notes

.one week till digital submission deadline.

to do tomorrow:

-laser cutting session

-phone interview for some job at house of commons that is extremely distantly related to actual architectural design

-structures test

-read about 100 pages of dante’s inferno.

the boyfriend has declared that, from this term on, he is going to draft/render all his final studio projects in university by hand. 

frankly i think he’s crazy. 

Basically, if i can’t find another job in Canada/U.S. within ten days I’ll accept the offer from Interval Architects in Beijing, meaning that I’ll have to fly to China in a month and a half.

So I made a deal with the boyfriend that I’m going to try to send (“at the very least”) 50 more emails looking for employment this weekend.  

There’s a part of me that really wants to go to China for four months, reconnect with my roots and completely immerse myself in a different culture.  But some people make the decision tough.

We’ll see how things go.