Ah, the heady rush of publication!

Today when I came into work, Molly brought in a copy of Zombie, the new student run newsletter from the college of design. In the 8 page newsletter, an entire spread was devoted to entries from my satirical "Student Encyclopedia," thankfully the best ones, although the entry on the AIAS was NOT included, which although it was a scream, did not have a good chance of making it in as the main editors were AIAS officers. The rest of the newsletter, as the title indicates, carried this sarcastic tone through several other articles. I felt honor bound to place it among the better known journals of architecture in our reader room in the library.

In other news, student dissatisfaction with our structures professor has risen to such crisis levels that the director of the college personally interviened and set up saturday sessions with a TA to give remedial tutoring on top of the regular class.

Just as a thought of the day, maybe the problems we have in modernity arise becasue we struggle with a paradoxical existance which arises from a much more complex lifestyle. Why didn't midieval pig farmers struggle with existentialism? Because they were simple pig farmers who raised pigs to survive and that was the majority of thier identity. They weren't pig farmers AND pork belly speculators AND government agrarian inspectors. There was no real contradiction in thier lives.

Modernity is about paradoxes. As Americans, we're the hardest workers and are paid the best, but we have no time to enjoy that success. After the fall of the Roman empire, the human being was divided into the spirit and the flesh, two entities which divided, unhappily jostle for control. The places I've been and things I've seen would satisfy lifetimes in the old days, yet I am still too young to rent a car. I forget where I'm going with this, and too much unfocused rambling drives down readership anyway.