Okay, one more quick entry.
A friend of mine recently confessed that despite the importance of her family in her life, she doesn't spend enough time with them, a problem I have noted more than once myself.
It's hard to turn over a new leaf in my present position, but there is some stuff I can do, like really read a FB page instead of scanning it and finding the funniest wall post.
So anyway, Liz, I just wanted to say I read your interests and I found them very entertaining and also very representative of you. I, of course, also love old book smell. I love your Venn diagram about pants, it reminded me of Homer Simpson. And that link the architecture rant...Catherine, this isn't an attack on you, but I agreed with a lot of what Choi said. (And is it true that Rem gets a lot of sleep? Why doesn't that trickle down to his organization? Having personally worked for such organizations (working for one now) and observed the poor decisions (life or death decisions) we make while sleep deprived, I would work hard to build an org that would have shorter workdays, so as to focus only on what is truly important.
06 June 2008
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What note by Choi? Don't know if I know that one.
And although I hear you on long hours, the catch for a lot of crazy architects is that design is their life. Rem comes into the office on Christmas because he hates holidays.
I, on the other hand, have found that architecture is not enough for me. I was just going to propose that the 4 Witt sibs try to get together in the same place, at the same time, for a few days each year. Now that I can predict the workload, I hope to be better at spending time with the fam too...
Why thank you. I too have been trying to do this more often.
Oh, I should have mentioned in my first post that the first person ever to show my the Choi letter was Catherine.
Catherine, it was the letter that someone taped up in the kitchen when you were working in Rotterdam. It starts out "Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit."
Plunkett saw it for the first time the other day and and called me because at first he thought I had written it.
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