Something about a girl...

I used to walk down the street
She was you, than her, than she..
When I'd look at her all I'd see is you..

Countless others had passed by
It somehow did not fit,
It has always been you.
There was always 'something',
but now I know that 'something'
was, is, and always will be you.

We went on an adventure
The air is full of electricity
It feels like a dungeon
my heart races, and
I can't escape
the thumping,
my skin prickles as I wait for something
that can't surely come...


My hand in yours
all I can hear,
see,
are the drum beats
that await me
I hear her screams pleading
for escape, and I obey

One day you will see
One day The walls will come down,
but what then?
Utter and total chaos?
or serenity,
or neither...
Complete bliss

~a monkeys tail, birds beak, bull nose are not just zoology terms
~ ur roommate/wife says “good morning,” and you reply “good night.”
~you can time ur personal ablutions to 3pm every day.
~the latest scandel keeps you sane.
~you develop a phobia of a lack of air tightness
~you find "personal ablutions" funny
~muray mints entertain you.
~u have ormonde bricks homepage bookmarked on your laptop.
~ you spend more time in studio than with your friends/other half.
~ You see showering as a waste of time.
~duncan stewart is your god and "about the house" is your bible.
~ 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.
~a house made of gravy blocks, potatoe mortar, chocolate buttons cladding and jelly windows sounds valid.
~ you carry a toothbrush in your backpack.
~"freaking is your only escape"
~your being thought by a small balding man who smells and drives a convertible mini
~ the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
~you think an hour off with the studio occupied is wasteful
~ you’re not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the services lesson.
~ you know what loctite 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.’
~you wait ages for a building text book(homebond grr) and you think its a good deal to get it for 33 euro 30 cent, and forget the fact its 9 months too late.
~ someone asks you for your phone number and you give them the studio’s.
~ You draw perspectives of your friends room on your physics 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 scalpel 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 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.
~ baby wipes become a valuable commodity.
~ "fecking interiors" can often be heard.
~ 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).
~you think a mid morning scone break is cool.
~ redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.
~ Time spent with friends must be scheduled way in ad

1. Sex toy for masochists.

2. Knife blunter (use before using knife to cut anything which is tougher than your finger.)

3. Loofah for celibate masochists

4. Office automation tool (leave propped against “Enter” key. Go to lunch.)

5. Mobile phone placeholder (use to mock people who don’t have the latest model)

6. Donation to the New Ruling Class to ensure favourable treatment when the time comes. (We need to build a very long wall to accommodate all the people who will be first against it come the revolution)

7. Remote-control for other people’s children.

8. Stepping stone for unambitious people who want to get on the property ladder

9. Paperweight for obsessive-compulsives.

10. Unremote-control for other people’s children.

11. Turner prize exhibit, in conjunction with three weeks worth of soiled underwear, half a rhino and twelve gallons of bolognese sauce.

12. Inspiration to Volvo styling department, circa 960 740, 240 era

13. Medium of artistic criticism when confronting door-to-door carol singers.

14. Puzzle for lost-property department of London Underground.

15. Telephone bill reduction device. Attach firmly to handset.

16. Trans-glazial paperwork delivery facilitator. Try throwing a ransom demand through someone’s window if it isn’t attached to a brick.

17. Map of the universe. Every particle in the universe exerts a force on every other particle. Careful study of a brick should allow an alert person to deduce the precise form of the rest of creation, therefore.

18. Patch for brick coloured objects with brick shaped holes in them.

19. Extremely Heavy duty postcard (use more than one stamp.)

20. Budget toe-stubber. The immutable laws of fate dictate that every so often you must bring an unshod toe into contact with something unyielding and that it will hurt like hell. Fulfil this obligation without risk of damage to your delicate furniture.

21. Indestructible Lego for behaviourally subnormal toddlers.

22. Medium from which certified public accountants with a horticultural bent may construct a rockery.

23. Corpse substitute – ideal if granny recovers but you’ve already put a deposit on the coffin.

24. Improvised cruise control to allow driver to retrieve important objects from boot during long motorway journeys.

25. Memento for unemployed hod carriers.

26. (Very bad) substitute for a drowning person in badly designed beginner’s lifesaving classes

27. Fair swap for two half-bricks

28. Weetabix for gentlemen (or ladies) who have something to prove about their masculinity.

29. Improvised chock for roadside replacement of wheel with punctured tyre. NB: it is very bad from to remove a brick from somebody’s house for this purpose.

30. Extra long-lasting salt lick for gullible cattle.

31. Latest idea for a novelty computer mouse. Ideal physiotherapy for anyone who needs highly developed muscles in one wrist. Bachelors, maybe.

32. Turns bats into insults. (Think about it.)

33. In a shared house, reserves sufficient fridge doorspace for a bottle of milk during periods when you’ve forgotten to buy any.

34. Portable version of the famous South American ball game (in which the balls are whacked against a wall with stout wooden bats until the prisoner confesses.)

35. Stress-tester for washing machines in a laundrette that’s annoyed you.

36. Tests the safety of safety matches.

37. Brita filter for extremely patient people

38. Suppository for wannabe Charlie Chaplin impersonators

39. Thermal cat torture device in similes about agitation

40. Small change in the event that Britain adopts a wall-based currency.

41. Squeezable stress-buster toy for Enron executives and Iraqi military officials.

42. Kitten compactor

43. Rhyme in Limerick about Jeffery Archer (it's a subtle one!)

44. Patio for window boxes

45. Home owner paranoia inducer. Say "This is yours, do you want