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I'm an artist, convenience store general manager, Nine Inch Nails fan, and hopeless internet addict. And now I'm a marathoner! Blogged By Jaye is my general-purpose blog, and Fat to Finish Line is my running journal. Occasional foul language included on both sites.

Friday, July 7, 2006

You might be an architecture major if...

(Installment number two in the series of "things I got in my email back in college that I still find funny." Yeah, so this one's a little bit specific. You'll laugh if you are one. I was one. I laughed.)

YOU MIGHT BE AN ARCHITECTURE MAJOR IF...

...you hit the sack when other peoples alarms are going off

...you have ever drooled during a class, especially a Physics class

...you eat glue

...you have spent more hours in the studio than you have spent sleeping in your entire lifetime

...you have traveled to Hobby Lobby more than twenty times in a week

...you think things other than words can read well

...you hear the entire morning show on your favorite radio station BEFORE you go to bed.

...you smell coffee when you talk

...you dont know what day it is

...you think the state bird is your middle finger

...you have altered your vocabulary drastically, such as replacing the word neat with engaging

...you have ever made anything out of Coke cans

...you include Mini-Thins into your daily diet

...you think its possible to create space

...you have listened to the radio long enough to hear a song more than thrice in one sitting

...you have more bandages on your hands than a mummy has on its entire body

...you dont know your telephone number or the location of your residence hall

...you have ever slept more than 18 hours in one period of slumber

...you fight with inanimate objects

...you smell like the couch upstairs

...youve tasted all the different brands of soda containing caffeine and regularly debate which is most effective

...youve ever visited Wal-Mart between the hours of 2am and 6am

...you are deaf

...you are never seen in public without headphones around your neck

...you are never seen in public

...you never go to your 9:30 class (sleepwalkers excluded)

...your roommate thinks you have a life of mad sex and partying

...youve ever listened to your whole CD collection within 48 hours

...youve cut your own hair with a utility knife

...youve ever seen a rabbit, skunk, or bat on campus

...you have argued about what day of the week yields the prettiest sunrise

...you are amused by the workings of the do-nothing

...you have been forced to learn the workings of the alarm system in the architecture building

...you have band-aid stains that wont go away on your hands, fingers, and arms

...you have ever fallen asleep with wet hair and had wet hair when you woke up to go to your first class

...you understand that the architecture building doubles as a dormitory

...you notice yourself skipping things, such as Physics, lunch, supper...

...you wash your hair in the studio bathroom sink

...you have ever used up a roll of film photographing a door.

...you find the studio phone number next to your name in your friends rolodexes

...you smell

...you think trash can be artistic

...your parents, relatives, and friends hate your studio instructors

...you keep a book on your desk entitled 14000 Things To Be Happy About

...you participate in making lists like this

...when you speak, it unconsciously comes out as a long, steady moan

...you understand someone else speaking this language

...youve ever done the YMCA hand motions at 3 in the morning without being drunk

...youve ever danced on a studio desk for Mardi Gras beads

...there is a book on your bookshelf entitled the 1990s and beyond

...you use colored pencils and/or Rapidographs to balance your checkbook

...you know the waitresses at Country Kitchen better than you know your parents

...when driving, you keep thinking someone is honking at you, even though it is four in the morning and nobody is out except you

...you do TERM papers the night before they are due

...you have friends who arent in the school of architecture who are worried about the quiz in their sandwich-making class

...doing laudry requires more than six washing machines and three hours

...you have perpetual graphite on your face

...you combine breakfast, lunch, and supper into one BIG meal to save time

...you dont know anyone who procrastinates more than you outside the architecture building

...your primary spring break activity was sleeping

...youve ever been standing outside of a building holding a cup and a passerby threw a quarter in

...you have the Papa Johns number tatooed on your hand

...you party with your teachers

...you are constantly thinking up excuses to tell your non-architecture teachers why you didnt get your homework done

...you have ever chained a chair to a desk

...you discuss the appearance of the new library addition every time you pass it

...you have ever hooked up more than three power strips to each other

...you have ever painted, mangled, lettered on, added hangers to, or discombobulated any part of a telephone that will later be used

...you have more snapshots of buildings than you have of people

...you have ever purchased more than $100 worth of plaster

...you notice yourself repeating things over and over and over and over and over...

...someone once suggested that you were lazy and you almost murdered him

...pre-med majors feel sorry for you

...you are thinking of changing your major to pre-med

...you have ever tried to squeeze sixteen hours of work into five minutes

...you were ever successful in doing it

...you have ever drawn tree bark magnified 1000x

...you slapped the snotty witch who said what is that supposed to be? when you were drawing the tree bark magnified 1000x

...you have ever cut your finger off

...you took a date to the E. Fay Jones lecture

...you play with balloons, recorders, yo-yos, and slinkies on a regular basis

...a flexible curve and a kneaded eraser are all you need for a fun night

...at night, your dreams consist mostly of building models

...your life is like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

...you have ever spent thirty hours on a wood/gesso drawing and then heard your instructors tell you to paint the wood white again

...youve ever discusses the various shapes of urinals in plan

...windex tastes good

...youve ever misplaced your keys for more than a week and lived just fine

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