Man, I hate Fridays

Just kidding.

I have my Architecture of Culture and Commerce certification tour this weekend. If I can make it past this, then I’m ready to give this tour to the public! No more practicing! I know I know, not that it’s not all an eternal process of practicing.

I want my tours to be awesome, I want them to be the best one, I want people breaking down the doors of the Architecture Center to take my tour.

I’m reading a book called “Why Architecture Matters” by Blair Kamin who is the architecture critic for the Trib. I’m loving it! It’s a lot of his past articles from the Trib all in one place. What I’m learning to love about reading his critiques is the way he himself talks about architecture. So far he’s talking about buildings “communicating” with each other and they’re “dialogue”. How the corner of Michigan and Wacker how the Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building talk to each other, acknowledge each other. It’s neat to hear it described that way and sort of gives me a new way to look at it. He’s got a good handle on Chicago and it’s really fun to listen to him rip the Disney store a new one.

On another subject, here is what I want me and John to do this weekend….

Follow the North Star"
Fishers, April 7-9, 14-16, 21-23
Will you win freedom, or be captured by the slave hunters? Find out when you and other "fugitive slaves" cover one mile of rough terrain on foot in your fight for freedom. In Conner Prairie's interactive program, you'll encounter a belligerent transplanted Southerner, a reluctantly helpful farm wife and a free black family. Reservations required.

Now come on, how could you NOT do that? How can you see that and NOT want to go?