~ ur roommate says “good morning,” and you reply “good night.”
~ you spend more time in studio than with your friends/other half.
~ You see showering as a waste of time.
~ you analyze everything as if it were a building-this gets worse, directly proportional to hours of sleep.
~ concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time a project is due ("What time is it?""4 hours ’till").
~ You slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you’ll be able to finish your model.
~ you confuse today and tomorrow.
~ you carry a toothbrush in your backpack.
~ you confuse sunrise with sunset.
~ the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
~ you strangle your roommate because he/she said he/she stayed up late studying.
~ you’re not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the Structures lesson.
~ you know what UHU glue tastes like.
~ breakfast is your 5th meal of the day.
~ the morning newspaper beats you home.
~ the idea that you have a room to live in outside of studio is just a myth.
~ you hear “Didn’t you wear that yesterday?’ followed by “and the day before that?” And an occasional “and the day before that...
~ your roommate files a ‘Missing Person Report.’
~ someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studio’s.
~ You draw perspectives of your friends room on your Japanese homework just for the fun of it.
~ Whenever you finish a project and don’t have any studio work to do, you are constantly wondering why you aren’t in studio working-It’s a strange sort of guilt complex.
~ You buy trace paper in mass quantities.
~ You understand what 4B, 2B, B, HB, H, 2H, and 4H are and have lots of each type.
~ Your idea of splurging on yourself is buying another circle template(or other miscellaneous template).
~ YOU ALWAYS WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
~ You put a scale under everything you draw so that people know how big it is.
~ The biggest decision you have to make near the end of the term is “pencil, or ink?”
~ You always have a supply of bandaids around for exacto knife cuts.
~ You have a 30, 60, 90 and a 45, 45, 90 degree triangle. Or two. Or three. Or more.
~ You keep around adjustable triangles too just in case.
~ You start replacing pictures of your friends and family with pictures of buildings.
~ Watching the sun rise means you haven’t gone to bed yet.
~ You never have enough wall space to pin things up.
~ You always have a supply of portable and non perishable food.
~ You can go for days without sunlight. (You go to class in the dark, you come home in the dark).
~ Midnight is considered early evening.
~ You put up everything on your walls with drafting tape.
~ Push pins become a valuable commodity.
~ On Halloween you trick-or-treat in studio to get arch supplies or ‘Red Bull.’
~ you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can’t print, it’s chaos.
~ Pencil smudges and ink smears are the bane of your existence.
~ You start competing with each other for number of hours without sleep. (Less than 40 need not compete).
~ redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.
~ Time spent with friends must be scheduled way in advance.
~ you’ve slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
~ you’ve listened to all your CDs (iTunes collection) in less than 48 hours.
~ you’re not seen in public.
~ you lose your house keys for a week, and you don’t even notice.
~ Days don’t exist anymore, everything is based on number of hours of work.
~ you’ve used an entire roll of film to photograph the sidewalk.
~ you become excellent at recycling when making models.
~ you take notes and messages with colour markers.
~ You hear the same song on the radio 3 or more times in one night.
~ your parents have more of a social life than you.
~ your 11-year-old sister has more of a social life than you.
~ you consider using broccoli for your models.
~ you enjoy hanging out at Hom

Daragh asking for currency for Denmark in the Bureau de Change in the Airport - classic.


Our( okay, my) back stories for the people in our room in the hostel; Lithuanian bank robbers and Greek GP's looking for prostitutes.

Greek Yogurt Miners!!!!


Revolving doors


Also, freaky automatic doors, double

Otto, outside Sentrum listening to someone playing Sweating Bullets " It sounds like early hip hop!"


Plane delays and stress.


And the best for last.... the gig. Dave Mustaine rocks