#or an analysis of patrick to night shift

[diyasgarden]

i just realized i’m friends with lucy dacus on goodreads? famous oomf unlocked

[artslovergirl]

art & patrick at mark rebellato academy

[headcanons]

notes: i really enjoyed writing this because i just genuinely adore these characters and this movie so much. there's so many interesting little details and nuances there that i could just talk about forever and ever. i truly hope i did them justice here lol (also writing this made me jealous of people that are good at writing character analysis' and thinkpieces bc wow it is hard!) but yeah enjoy!

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they met at age 12 during their first day at the mark rebellato academy in their now shared room. 

when art came in with a duffel bag (that looked comically big next to his scrawny kid body) patrick was already sitting on the bed he had claimed(the right side next to the door) all by himself, his parents didn't have a very tearful nor long goodbye as they sent their son off to boarding school.

in contrast art’s mom and grandma seemed keen to embarrass him in front of his new roommate with their cooing and hugging him goodbye. 

it wasn't even like his mom and him were really all that close though. she just seemed to want to squeeze in all the moments of a loving mother-son relationship into the small segments of time she actually spent with him.

the goodbye hug and small ruffle of his hair from his grandma felt a little more genuine. embarrassing all the same as he could feel the other dark haired boy try not to crack up at the display.

"mom. please." he pleaded with her as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "i’m sorry, artie, but i need to make up for all the time i'm gonna miss with you!" yeah, he bets.

a few minutes later and a tear or two from his mother they did finally leave him be. as soon as he heard the door shut though, the awkward silence enveloping the room almost made him miss them. 

he threw his duffel bag on the left bed and sat down on the edge. he fidgeted with his bottom lip, a nervous habit he's had for as long as he could remember. 

the brunette boy shifted on the bed so he was now facing him. his mouth pulled into a toothy grin "so you're...artie?" 

art groaned and hid his head in his hands, slumped over his knees. "no, that's..just my moms nickname for me. sorry you had to see that." he says in a squeaky broken voice which didn't help the embarrassment he was already feeling.

the other boy just brushed right past all that and said "i’m patrick." and then as an afterthought, "zweig."

"uh." art leaned back up, still avoiding his gaze. it was weirdly intense. "yeah, i’m..art. um, donaldson." he said the last part like it was a question almost.

patrick began to swing his legs a little. it was clear to him that art was the quiet type even if they had just exchanged a few words so far, but luckily patrick didn't mind talking. it was something his father always hated about him. he almost talked enough for both of them which after a little while finally seemed to break the ice of art's shy exterior. 

art didnt know what he thought about patrick yet. he was pretty..confident that was for sure. even a little arrogant, maybe. art scolded himself internally for being so judgemental. it was quality he hated about himself, but seemingly couldn’t get rid of.

despite all of that he had to admit that patrick was easy to talk to. there was never an uncomfortable gap in conversation with him. which art liked since those kinds of things made him want to crawl out of his skin sometimes.

that first night he spent staying up with patrick, slowly realizing how much they had in common while simultaneously being complete opposites, is one of his fondest memories and probably always will be. he never experienced another connection that felt anything even close to that.

their room wasn't too small but with the way patrick would just constantly toss his clothes wherever he pleased it seemed a lot smaller. 

it's not like art was insanely neat or anything, he was still a teenage boy. patrick was just exceptionally messy.

"patrick, this shit is so gross, i told you to use the hamper." 

patrick groaned, "youre such a neatfreak, fuck off." 

at that response a pair of dirty boxers were thrown at his head, courtesy of art. "i don't want to see or smell your worn underwear. that doesn't make me a neatfreak." 

patrick just tossed it back in art’s direction, to which the blonde quickly scurried out of the way to dodge it like his life depended on it. 

"you know if tennis doesn't work out for you, you'll make a good housewife." patrick grinned mockingly.

“ha-ha.” art just rolled his eyes, stuck up his middle finger and let the door slam behind him with his racket bag slung over his shoulder. 

trying to get patrick to do anything was like trying to teach a cat to do a trick without any treats. borderline impossible. so by age 15 art finally gave up.

...until he realized a year later that patrick would clean his side of the room whenever they had a girl over so..

yeah, sometimes he did lie and tell patrick that a girl was coming over just so he would clean his side of the room. 

you can judge him all you want but you never had to room with patrick zweig

 and after the third time that trick stopped working anyway. art was never a good liar. or maybe patrick could just call his bullshit way too easily.

they didn't fight too often, it was more like they constantly got into little tiffs

except for that time where it got so out of hand that they duct-taped a line dividing their rooms into two sides. (i know this is giving sitcom i'm sorry but tell me i'm wrong)

eventually they kind of forgot what they even fought about in the first place but they were too lazy to take the tape off of the carpet, so it just stayed on there for like 2 years till it peeled off.

like i mentioned in my other post these two were BITCHES

they would def talk shit all the time. they were not even trying to be secret about it tbh. (see: them staring at anna crying at tashi's party)

they sat in the bleachers watching one of their classmates play a practice match

“dude, look at that forehand. it sucks.” art muttered. patrick nodded, “i know. no way she’ll even make it through the semester.” “i’ll be surprised if she makes it through this match without fracturing her wrist.” patrick snickered at art’s comment.

actual mean girls LMAO

and to be fair, they were fucking amazing at tennis, especially when they played together

so it's not like anyone could necessarily insult them back

but it also wasn't bullying or anything

they were just judgy and loved to talk shit

art had some decorum about it or felt bad about it sometimes. not patrick though. 

man has no shame. never did. as art so lovingly puts it “the part of his brain that feels shame withered away a long time ago.”

art wore glasses from ages 12 till 14 

he then switched to contact lenses because patrick said girls dont like guys with glasses and that they make him look nerdy

they weren't allowed to have any sort of electronics like computers or flip phones at the academy. not even mp3 players. 

now obviously patrick completely ignored that rule. he had like three flip phones under his bed in case his actual one ever got taken (it did)

he also smuggled in 2 mp3 players (one was for art, patrick is so kind… he did charge him 4 dollars for it though. that rich asshole. lmao)

honestly i would like to insert here what i think they would have listened to but..i was like..a baby when they wouldve been at the academy so..feel free to drop your music headcanons in the reblogs or comments 

they were only allowed one weekly call to their families from the communal landline.

neither patrick nor art were very fond of these calls so even though they weren't supposed to they would always go into the phone room together.

patricks mother always insisted on speaking in german with her son. he thought she only did it because it made her feel more connected to his father’s side of the family. not like it would fix their fucked up marriage though. 

“nein, mama, ich habe mein deutsch nicht vergessen.” (no, mom, i havent forgotten my german) he sighs. art sits on the floor next to him and flicks a rubber band at him. “ja, verstanden. ja, ich weiß.” (yes, understood. yes, i know.) he rolls his eyes. 

art understood a few of the basic words since patrick taught him some german after art asked how to correctly pronounce his last name. 

“..bis nächste woche. tschüss.” (talk to you next week. bye.) he hung up. his mom said i love you but he knew she didn't mean it so he didn't say it back. 

patrick groaned and stretched out his legs that were seemingly getting longer by the day (art secretly prayed for a growth spurt that would make him taller than patrick. right now he was still pretty short for a guy his age.) 

he handed the phone to art. “she always talks so much. it's like i'm not even on the other line.” patrick scowls. art just nodded. he knew that by now.

art called his grandma but his dad picked up instead. it was okay. talking to his dad felt a little like talking to some distant uncle that he only saw once a year, “how's it going, champ?” “good.” “great.” that kinda stuff

the phone call lasted 5 minutes. he stood up and hung the phone back on the receiver. 

“wanna smoke?” patrick asked already reaching for the two loose cigarettes stuffed into his jean shorts pocket.

art nodded. he didn't really like smoking, and he kind of only did it because patrick did. and whenever he did, all he could think about was how bad for him it was. 

he was always pretty conscious about that kinda stuff, it was a little drilled into him by his dad who was the most adamant about art becoming a tennis player since he used to be one when he was younger.

so sugar and fats (basically anything that tasted good) were pretty much banned in the donaldson household 

which kind of resulted in art subconsciously believing that anything that brought him joy or pleasure must be inherently bad for him or followed by a feeling of guilt and shame to make up for it.

needless to say art wasn't the best at indulging. he was a little jealous of how patrick never seemed to have any issue with that sort of thing.

patrick didn't care about maintaining a good diet or depriving himself of life's pleasures for the sake of tennis. he took what he wanted like life owed it to him. 

maybe that's why he smoked with patrick. to try and be more like him?

also because it gave him a nice sense of rebellion.

most things he did with patrick gave him that feeling.

at the academy they were the definition of ‘not sold separately’

if you saw one the other wasn't far behind

its not like they didn't have other friends. they did. they were pretty popular actually

but none of those friendships were anything like what art and patrick had.

especially when playing doubles.

it felt like they could communicate telepathically 

patrick knew when art was going for the ball before the other team even served and vice versa.

tennis felt different when they were playing together. better.

and it felt so easy, it felt like nothing they needed to work on. their friendship was the same. it was so easy, so natural.

after about a year or so of being friends they started being in sync. literally.

they cross their legs at the same time, they pick up their rackets at the same time, they adjust their forehand grip at the same time, they walk at the same pace, they sit down the same etc etc you get it

also that isn't really a headcanon, like this is canon in the movie. and it makes me SICK that they were still in sync in 2019. after not talking for 12 years. shut up that’s some soulmate shit

now let's talk about something else that is canon…the pushed together beds.

yes!

now, i think patrick is a person that is pretty open with his body in general in terms of like being physically affectionate. or just being physical. 

i don't know if art is, i think he's a little more reserved. (repressed if you will! i will!)

but patrick touching him so casually does fill a little tiny (gaping) void in him that yearns for touch.

he is a professional yearner as we all know

and patrick never had an issue satisfying those yearnings for him. (i think we saw that in the fact that patrick taught art how to jerk off ok next topic)

patrick would sling his arm around his shoulder, lay his long legs over arts lap, ruffle arts curls (“stop that, you're messing them up.” “no, i'm not they always look like this”),he would barge into their room after practice flopping his tall sweaty body on top of art to annoy him.

they were very physically affectionate it was just all under the guise of shoving and tripping each other and just general teenage boy roughhousing shenanigans. that counts as a love language to me ok!

art got used to patrick touching him very quick and even reciprocated sometimes 

also i do think that sometimes patrick would smack art’s ass as a joke. lol. (that's inspired by that video of the two doubles players doing that…do you guys know what i’m talking about)

OK SO!

the beds.

they were 16. patrick suggested it. “these beds are too fucking small.” he complained, laying on his staring at the smoke detector that he had covered with a shower cap so it wouldnt detect the smoke from his cigarettes. 

and to be fair…yeah. patrick stood at 1,80 cm right now and his feet were hanging over the edge of the bed.

art looked up from his book which he was only reading to impress a girl he had a crush on. patrick had told him to just pretend he read it but art said that was disingenuous and he wanted to know what she liked and why she liked it. 

“you know what we should do? we should push our beds together.” patrick sat up, grinning like he just had the best idea ever. 

arts features twisted up in thought. “isn't that a little close?” 

“nah, why, we still have our own beds. just more space.” patrick shrugged.

he glanced at their beds. “uhhh…i guess we can do that. the beds are a little cramped. although is that even allowed?” art began fidgeting with his lip like he usually did when he was in thought.

but patrick was already in the process of shoving his bed next to arts after which he let himself fall onto the two beds in a starfish position, with his gangly limbs almost stretching to every corner of the beds. “oh. great. and i’ll just curl up at the foot of the bed then?” art gave patrick a deadpan stare. 

“up to you.” patrick grinned in that specific way that really irked art. 

patrick did make some space for him once they actually went to sleep that night

even now they were two opposites making a whole

patrick always ran cold so he hogged all the blankets and art always ran hot so he immediately kicked them off of him as soon as he fell asleep 

that only made this new pushed together beds thing even better for patrick because he now got to have his own blanket AND steal arts every night

i wouldn't say they cuddled necessarily? i think it was more just like the regular amount of physical touching that happens when you sleep in the same bed

which is still pretty intimate to me idk about you guys

like their legs kind of thrown over each others, art’s arm occasionally draped over patricks chest (or literally on his face. art denies every time that he does it on purpose but patrick KNOWS he does it to annoy him. he knows.) 

one time art had a nightmare of being trapped under a rock only to wake up and find out that somehow patrick had rolled over in the middle of the night and was now laying COMPLETELY on top of art. right before he was about to push him off (because he was making art actively suffocate) patrick rolled over again and fell out of bed. he didn't even wake up from that. genuinely just slept on the floor that night. freak of nature that guy.

also patrick for sure twitches like a dog in his sleep

and i think it used to wake art up because he's a pretty light sleeper but eventually he just got used to it lol

when art went to stanford he never finished the last bite of anything he ate because he was so used to patrick being next to him and just stealing the last bite.

patrick really really wanted to get his ears pierced when he was 15. 

so naturally he asked art to do it for him.

you know…like how they did it in the parent trap. which if you asked them is a movie that they definitely haven't seen. ( but they did see it and art cried at the twins reuniting with their parents, oops.)

unfortunately for patrick art was very very squeamish with needles at that age (i think that mellowed down the older he got but he still refused to look whenever he got vaccinations or anything like that.) 

so now it was midnight, they were in their room sitting on the floor and arguing

“dude, just do it, stop being such a wuss. you're not even the one getting pierced.” patrick groaned, he had numbed his earlobe with ice but he could already feel a little bit of the feeling return to it, that's how long they had been sitting there with art squirming around because he hated even looking at the sewing needle.  

“that's worse though because i have to look at the needle going in your ear!” art argued

“ well, i can't do it myself.” patrick replied.

...

“are you wearing my shirt?” art squinted at him

“stop trying to change the subject.” 

“i told you to stop stealing my clothes. i don't want to do laundry that often.”

“can you focus?” patrick groaned

“dude.. okay, fine. just give me a second.” art took a deep breath.

“oh. my god. you're not performing open heart surgery.” 

“shut the fuck up.”

“you shut the fuck up.” 

and what do you know that response got art to get over his fear of needles for a second and stab that thing right through his best friends ear 

the little high pitched yelp patrick let out in surprise at that is something art didn't let him forget about for like two weeks after

it took about another hour for art to pierce patricks second ear and eventually they managed but then like a week later patrick forgot to put his earrings in and the piercings immediately grew shut

so all that drama was for nothing!

i think art has always kind of been the type of guy to want domesticity. 

i already posted about this somewhere but i kind of came to that conclusion because patrick said “he wants to spend time with his family” to tashi in the alley scene

patrick hadn’t spoken to art for like a decade at that point

and you could say it's a good guess but NO! 

patrick knows art like the back of his hand and patrick knows that art has always wanted a family and how much it probably kills him to miss out on time with them due to his career at that point in time (also just throwing this out there i think art always wanted to have a daughter more than a son, like that just makes sense to me. maybe bc i think his own relationship with his dad is so distant? idk!)

so yeah

also the sauna scene where patrick says that marriage isn't what he was for 

(to me) also implies that he is the opposite of art who was meant for marriage

anyway do i think that art shared his wishes for a family and marriage in the future with patrick? yes

do i think patrick jokingly made art promise to make him his best man? yeah

and furthermore do i think about the fact that patrick then had to read about arts wedding in some tabloid years later? yep!

i’m sure i could think of more in the future but that's all i've got for now! i hope this was coherent enough to enjoy because it’s not as proofread as my fics usually are lol! i just wanted to get these thoughts out there

if some of these seem familiar it might be because i took some of these from my twt!

i also have some more headcanons floating around on my tumblr that i didn't include here if you want to find those, or not, i'm not your mom! 

[alkalinefrog]

Okay y'ello there! so, finding out you can draw out of this world storyboards was like, no like it was just, woah!!, no like seriously if I was an alien I'd be a lie n if I didn't immediately declare a truce w/h earth so long as I can just play one of your storyboards in a movie theater, imagine working at your local theater and being on the night shift, hearing a movie playing and you're curious because oooo it's late but ayo free possible haunted

movie time? and you sneaky snake your way in only to find a green lil blob watching Hijack, Jack has the Hiccups, Hiccups has the Jacks, I'm just spit balling at this point, Flying Tundra? Hallmark Christmas movie but everyone has dragons and nobody points it out for the entirety of the movie? Toothless & Teethyes? you, you get it, but it's all just playing on screen, it's just a montage of all your storyboards collaged together with early 2000's bruno mars playing, maybe Mamma Mia by ABBA

I just think it'd be neat

but yeah, finding that out was like seeing an alien but the hijack is what rlly blows you away, but your writing???? you draw really well??? but you also write????? really well??? what is this??? It's like when I found out Joji used to be Pink Guy, this is incredible, you just, the attention to DETAIL? Like, someone delete my Google docs or else I'm writing up a 5 page analysis from the sheer ingenuity and creativity that just, exudes off your writing what??? gah! It's so good!

Sophie's bracelet gift to Jamie having a bunny charm as a lil wink towards her loving easter??? Jamie getting better at drawing cause of Hiccup?? Patrick Swayze made me cackle in the club, and just, I wasn't expecting to tear up but mannnnn, the whole "Believe in yourself" and then Jamie pans up and sees the sand???? Shits cinematic it's wild

Basically, I live this, I love this, I laugh this, it's great, absolutely knocked it out of the park, if your writing was baseball you just hit a home run, ran all the bases, the other team quit and are retiring to Peru, you've just, art, writing, are you also good at the kazoo?? I wouldn't be surprised, but genuinely thank you!

This ask was so long and overflowing with love that I read it after I just woke up and thought I hallucinated it LMAO 😭❤️❤️❤️ I'm at such a loss for words, I audibly snickered at the alien bit and Jack has the Hiccups/Hiccup has the Jack's--- and dude, thank you??? For complimenting my writing??? To be fair, I wrote it like how I write scripts and just expanded on it after, so the prose is pretty ABC. STILL THOUGH this is so bizarre omfg, I'm still kinda reeling that it was received this well 🤯 I'm so glad you liked it, especially the dreamsand part ahh!!! I'm blushing really hard right now! Thank YOU so much for all your kind words, I'm going to be rereading this ask all day!! ❤️❤️❤️

[archatlas]

Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

by Michael Sorkin

  1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.   2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.   3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.   4.    The modulus of rupture.   5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.   6.    The distance of a whisper.   7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).

The Temple of Hatshepsut 

  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.   9.    In your town (include the rich). 10.    The flowering season for azaleas. 11.    The insulating properties of glass. 12.    The history of its production and use. 13.    And of its meaning. 14.    How to lay bricks. 15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16.    The rate at which the seas are rising. 17.    Building information modeling (BIM). 18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19.    The Gini coefficient. 20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21.    In a wheelchair. 22.    The energy embodied in aluminum. 23.    How to turn a corner. 24.    How to design a corner. 25.    How to sit in a corner. 26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31.    The basics of mud construction. 32.    The direction of prevailing winds. 33.    Hydrology is destiny. 34.    Jane Jacobs in and out. 35.    Something about feng shui. 36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37.    Elementary ergonomics. 38.    The color wheel. 39.    What the client wants. 40.    What the client thinks it wants. 41.    What the client needs. 42.    What the client can afford. 43.    What the planet can afford. 44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46.    Another language. 47.    What the brick really wants. 48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52.    Where the CCTV cameras are. 53.    Why Mies really left Germany. 54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55.    The structural properties of tufa. 56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58.    Vitruvius. 59.    Walter Benjamin. 60.    Marshall Berman. 61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built.

Duomo in Florence

63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65.    Entasis. 66.    The history of Soweto. 67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68.    Back-up. 69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70.    Shear and moment. 71.    Shakespeare, et cetera. 72.    How the crow flies. 73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74.    How the pyramids were built. 75.    Why. 76.    The pleasures of the suburbs. 77.    The horrors. 78.    The quality of light passing through ice. 79.    The meaninglessness of borders. 80.    The reasons for their tenacity. 81.    The creativity of the ecotone. 82.    The need for freaks. 83.    Accidents must happen. 84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85.    The smell of concrete after rain. 86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87.    How to ride a bicycle. 88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90.    The wages of construction workers. 91.    Perspective by hand. 92.    Sentence structure. 93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94.    The thrill of the ride. 95.    Where materials come from. 96.    How to get lost. 97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98.    What human differences are defensible in practice. 99.    Creation is a patient search. 100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105.    How to dérive. 106.    Woodshop safety. 107.    A great deal about the Gothic. 108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109.    A distaste for imperialism. 110.    The history of Beijing.

Beijing Skyline

111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112.    Aristotle’s Politics. 113.    His Poetics. 114.    The basics of wattle and daub. 115.    The origins of the balloon frame. 116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119.    Where else to sink it. 120.    The fire code. 121.    The seismic code. 122.    The health code. 123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124.    How to listen closely. 125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126.    The exquisite corpse. 127.    Scissors, stone, paper. 128.    Good Bordeaux. 129.    Good beer. 130.    How to escape a maze. 131.    QWERTY. 132.    Fear. 133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134.    The proper way to behave with interns. 135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137.    How to calculate ecological footprints. 138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139.    The value of human life. 140.    Who pays. 141.    Who profits. 142.    The Venturi effect. 143.    How people pee. 144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145.    The fine print in the contract. 146.    A smattering of naval architecture. 147.    The idea of too far. 148.    The idea of too close. 149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151.    The density needed to support a subway. 152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155.    Constructivism, in and out. 156.    Sinan. 157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159.    Several other artistic media. 160.    A bit of chemistry and physics. 161.    Geodesics. 162.    Geodetics. 163.    Geomorphology. 164.    Geography. 165.    The Law of the Andes. 166.    Cappadocia first-hand.

Cappadocia

167.    The importance of the Amazon. 168.    How to patch leaks. 169.    What makes you happy. 170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171.    The view from the Acropolis. 172.    The way to Santa Fe. 173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175.    Half as much as a London cabbie. 176.    The Nolli Plan. 177.    The Cerdà Plan. 178.    The Haussmann Plan. 179.    Slope analysis. 180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181.    Dawn breaking after a bender. 182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183.    Betty Friedan. 184.    Guy Debord. 185.    Ant Farm. 186.    Archigram. 187.    Club Med. 188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189.    Solid geometry. 190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191.    Ha Long Bay. 192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193.    In Rio. 194.    In Calcutta. 195.    In Curitiba. 196.    In Mumbai. 197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198.    Why you think architecture does any good. 199.    The depreciation cycle. 200.    What rusts. 201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202.    How to play a musical instrument. 203.    Which way the wind blows. 204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205.    How to guard a house from floods. 206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208.    Where north (or south) is. 209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210.    Stadtluft macht frei. 211.    Underneath the pavement the beach. 212.    Underneath the beach the pavement. 213.    The germ theory of disease. 214.    The importance of vitamin D. 215.    How close is too close. 216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217.    The draught of ferries. 218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219.    The difference between gabions and riprap. 220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall.

Boston Symphony Hall

221.    How to open the window. 222.    The diameter of the earth. 223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226.    Concrete finishes. 227.    Brick bonds. 228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230.    The energy potential of the wind. 231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232.    Paestum. 233.    Straw-bale building technology. 234.    Rachel Carson. 235.    Freud. 236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237.    Of Alvar Aalto. 238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240.    Mesa Verde National Park. 241.    Chichen Itza. 242.    Your neighbors. 243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246.    How to cut a truly elegant section. 247.    The depths of desire. 248.    The heights of folly. 249.    Low tide. 250.    The Golden and other ratios.

[axwalker]

¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS, Burnsita!

Today is the birthday of one of the best, most amazing friend I’ve met here @burnsoslow

I still remember that, without knowing me, she reached out to me because she saw in a comment that I was having a bad day. She has a beautiful heart, incredible generosity, an amazing mind and HUGE talent.

I love our long debates about characters (specially a certain Lythikosian Duchess 🤣🤣) our talks about our lives and our undying love for Drake Walker and Ms. Judith Mcnaught.

This Drabble takes place in the Remember Two Things universe, where Lyss is attending Langston University. Alexis is a guest in this universe but I have to say, I LOVE our girls together. They just click and get each other so so well (as their great creators, of course 😉!)

I tried to be as faithful to your amazing character as I could. I hope you won’t hate this.

You know how much I love all your OCs, so I made this little mood board and this mini-dribble in honor of The Devereaux.

I love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️ and again :

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Tagging the birthday girl . @burnsoslow and @mskaneko because I know she loves our girls.

Lyss checked her watch and bit her lip trying to make up her mind. She was already 10 minutes late, but she was dying for a coffee, and Starbucks was on the way to the library where she was supposed to meet her study partner. Lexie O’Brien was a Spanish minor like herself and they were working together in a project for Introduction to Literary Analysis. Finally, she decided to go to Starbucks first; it was only a two-minutes detour, and her Spanish always improved after a --much needed-- dose of caffeine. Going to Starbucks was merely a matter of good work ethics.

After waiting more than 10 minutes for her double expresso with cream, Lyss ran to the library only to discover that Lexie was as late as she was. And she was carrying what looked like a chocolate milkshake in her hand. They both laughed and decided that it was probably better to finish their drinks in one of the park's wooden tables next to the library's entry. They talked animatedly for a few minutes before they started working in the project, but Lyss had a date with her beautiful boyfriend that night, and that was a date she couldn't be late for. As crazy about her as Drake was, he wasn't as crazy about her constant impunctuality. Unless he was the one making her late, of course. Which happens a lot, Lyss admitted to herself with a smile.

Lyss took out her computer from her bag and turned it on. "The assignment is to pick a French book and analyze a scene. Now, I know M. Ortega is expecting us to choose one of the books from the syllabus …" She smiled mischievously. "But, I think we could choose a book we actually like. I don't want to be the thousandth pair talking about Don Quijote."

Lexie, wiggled her eyebrow. "So, it is true that great minds think alike." She laughed. "I noticed that Ortega didn't include one single female writer on his list, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about one of them, you know? So, maybe he'll realize women are authors too."

"Perfect," Lyss answered before sipping her coffee.

"She's gorgeous! Is she your mom?" Lexie asked, pointing at Lyss's screensaver.

Her friend nodded, as Lexie kept on talking. “And this incredibly cute baby must be you. You had those amazing eyes even as a little girl.”

Lyss blushed. "My dad gave me this computer the night before coming to Langston. He made a collage with pictures of the three of us and made it my screensaver. He's a softy," she added sweetly.

Lexie heard the pride and affection in Lyss's voice. "He sounds amazing," she said.

"He is. He picked all my favorite pictures. Here, they're on their wedding day," Lyss pointed at the bottom right of the screen. "And this is my dad on his first day at work. He's an attorney." Lexie's gaze shifted to the upper side of the screen, where a serious young man was looking at the ceiling with dreamy eyes. "And here?" Lexie pointed at Lyss's gorgeous mom, who was kissing her dad's hand and felt a pang of longing. Her parents barely spoke to each other when they were married.

"My aunt took that picture. They were in our family house in Michigan. My dad proposed that day. Auntie told me that she had never seen two people more in love than them."

Lexie squeezed Lyss's shoulder. "Do you miss them?"

"Like hell, but we’re going for Thanksgiving," Lyss said excited just to think about her parents meeting Drake. "Do you miss yours?"

"My mom. She's my world,” Lexie replied proudly. “But my father is definitely nothing like yours. You're a lucky girl, Lyss." Lexie took a drink from her milkshake, so Lyss was unable to see her eyes tearing up.

Lyss never, ever took her parents for granted. She was too grateful for them. "I know," she affirmed, suddenly feeling sad for her friend who didn't have a father as wonderful as Patrick Devereaux.

[thethingssafhaslearnedsofar]

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

Michael Sorkin

 1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.  2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.  3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.  4.    The modulus of rupture.  5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.  6.    The distance of a whisper.  7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.  9.    In your town (include the rich). 10.    The flowering season for azaleas. 11.    The insulating properties of glass. 12.    The history of its production and use. 13.    And of its meaning. 14.    How to lay bricks. 15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16.    The rate at which the seas are rising. 17.    Building information modeling (BIM). 18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19.    The Gini coefficient. 20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21.    In a wheelchair. 22.    The energy embodied in aluminum. 23.    How to turn a corner. 24.    How to design a corner. 25.    How to sit in a corner. 26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31.    The basics of mud construction. 32.    The direction of prevailing winds. 33.    Hydrology is destiny. 34.    Jane Jacobs in and out. 35.    Something about feng shui. 36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37.    Elementary ergonomics. 38.    The color wheel. 39.    What the client wants. 40.    What the client thinks it wants. 41.    What the client needs. 42.    What the client can afford. 43.    What the planet can afford. 44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46.    Another language. 47.    What the brick really wants. 48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52.    Where the CCTV cameras are. 53.    Why Mies really left Germany. 54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55.    The structural properties of tufa. 56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58.    Vitruvius. 59.    Walter Benjamin. 60.    Marshall Berman. 61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65.    Entasis. 66.    The history of Soweto. 67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68.    Back-up. 69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70.    Shear and moment. 71.    Shakespeare, et cetera. 72.    How the crow flies. 73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74.    How the pyramids were built. 75.    Why. 76.    The pleasures of the suburbs. 77.    The horrors. 78.    The quality of light passing through ice. 79.    The meaninglessness of borders. 80.    The reasons for their tenacity. 81.    The creativity of the ecotone. 82.    The need for freaks. 83.    Accidents must happen. 84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85.    The smell of concrete after rain. 86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87.    How to ride a bicycle. 88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90.    The wages of construction workers. 91.    Perspective by hand. 92.    Sentence structure. 93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94.    The thrill of the ride. 95.    Where materials come from. 96.    How to get lost. 97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98.    What human differences are defensible in practice. 99.    Creation is a patient search. 100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105.    How to dérive. 106.    Woodshop safety. 107.    A great deal about the Gothic. 108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109.    A distaste for imperialism. 110.    The history of Beijing. 111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112.    Aristotle’s Politics. 113.    His Poetics. 114.    The basics of wattle and daub. 115.    The origins of the balloon frame. 116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119.    Where else to sink it. 120.    The fire code. 121.    The seismic code. 122.    The health code. 123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124.    How to listen closely. 125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126.    The exquisite corpse. 127.    Scissors, stone, paper. 128.    Good Bordeaux. 129.    Good beer. 130.    How to escape a maze. 131.    QWERTY. 132.    Fear. 133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134.    The proper way to behave with interns. 135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137.    How to calculate ecological footprints. 138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139.    The value of human life. 140.    Who pays. 141.    Who profits. 142.    The Venturi effect. 143.    How people pee. 144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145.    The fine print in the contract. 146.    A smattering of naval architecture. 147.    The idea of too far. 148.    The idea of too close. 149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151.    The density needed to support a subway. 152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155.    Constructivism, in and out. 156.    Sinan. 157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159.    Several other artistic media. 160.    A bit of chemistry and physics. 161.    Geodesics. 162.    Geodetics. 163.    Geomorphology. 164.    Geography. 165.    The Law of the Andes. 166.    Cappadocia first-hand. 167.    The importance of the Amazon. 168.    How to patch leaks. 169.    What makes you happy. 170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171.    The view from the Acropolis. 172.    The way to Santa Fe. 173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175.    Half as much as a London cabbie. 176.    The Nolli Plan. 177.    The Cerdà Plan. 178.    The Haussmann Plan. 179.    Slope analysis. 180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181.    Dawn breaking after a bender. 182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183.    Betty Friedan. 184.    Guy Debord. 185.    Ant Farm. 186.    Archigram. 187.    Club Med. 188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189.    Solid geometry. 190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191.    Ha Long Bay. 192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193.    In Rio. 194.    In Calcutta. 195.    In Curitiba. 196.    In Mumbai. 197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198.    Why you think architecture does any good. 199.    The depreciation cycle. 200.    What rusts. 201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202.    How to play a musical instrument. 203.    Which way the wind blows. 204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205.    How to guard a house from floods. 206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208.    Where north (or south) is. 209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210.    Stadtluft macht frei. 211.    Underneath the pavement the beach. 212.    Underneath the beach the pavement. 213.    The germ theory of disease. 214.    The importance of vitamin D. 215.    How close is too close. 216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217.    The draught of ferries. 218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219.    The difference between gabions and riprap. 220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221.    How to open the window. 222.    The diameter of the earth. 223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226.    Concrete finishes. 227.    Brick bonds. 228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230.    The energy potential of the wind. 231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232.    Paestum. 233.    Straw-bale building technology. 234.    Rachel Carson. 235.    Freud. 236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237.    Of Alvar Aalto. 238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240.    Mesa Verde National Park. 241.    Chichen Itza. 242.    Your neighbors. 243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246.    How to cut a truly elegant section. 247.    The depths of desire. 248.    The heights of folly. 249.    Low tide. 250.    The Golden and other ratios. https://www.readingdesign.org/

[missizzy]

Fic: The Klingon’s Mate, Part 3 (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)

Worf went on shift before her the next morning, which made that easier. She ate breakfast with Turink, and listened to him talk about the previous day. There at least she found one mercy: he’d had a good day yesterday. He’d met with two other boys about his mental age on the starbase, including one from a silicon-based species whom he’d found it fun to wrestle with, and so far they were getting along, or so he claimed. “I like it here,” he said. “I know not everybody likes that I’m half-Klingon, but it’s no longer the case that everyone sees me as weak and inferior because of I’m half-Trill, you know?”

“I know,” said Jadzia softly, wishing Worf had been there to hear his son confirm what she’d always been pretty sure of, though she wasn’t sure he would’ve admitted to it in front of his father, that he had received that treatment on Qo’nos.

The medical exam has obviously been more stressful, but at least he had been told he was in good health. It seemed to Jadzia, as she listened to her son talk about it, that he viewed himself as having conquered that exam, and so now was ready to conquer any academic exams too.

It was good to see him adapting well. Especially, she couldn’t help but think, because of what might happen with him if she didn’t avert this disaster. If worst came to worst, he did have two sets of grandparents who were both willing to take him in, although Jadzia’s parents had never seen enough of him for either their or her own liking. She supposed he might do better on Earth than on Trill, where they were more used to aliens, although obviously that he was half-Klingon was going to be a problem anywhere he went outside Klingon space.

His determination to conquer the exams also meant she had no trouble getting him to take up the right padd and buckle down to study before she went on duty. She left him hunched over it and quietly repeating to himself what sounded like a Vulcan scientific equation.

The lab overnight had received a shipment from the planet of newly discovered fossils from Martisheva’s arctic regions, and that kept Jadzia nicely occupied throughout her shift. Had she not had the most dreaded event of her life hanging over her head, she would have been very happy that day. Even as it was, she could not help but marvel over a couple of them that were millions of years old, containing evidence of some of the earliest life that evolved on the planet, forgetting everything for a moment or so.

Two hours before her shift ended, she was just entering the results of her analysis of one of the newer ones, which had a lot of information attached to it, when Commander Sand came in. He was not someone Jadzia would’ve expected that day at all, and nor was he something she at all wanted to deal with, not before she knew which way her entire life was about to go.

He first looked around to see if they were alone, then said, “Unfortunately I have bad news. Yesterday when I offered you a position as my first officer, you asked if I could bring your husband on board as well. I asked about this, and I now can confirm the answer is no. The Admiral who has the charge of the command is insisting I take one of his people for head of Security, as well as for Engineering, and your husband is too high-ranked to be under him either. He would’ve been overqualified anyway, honestly.

I know you’ll probably turn the position down now, but I would still ask, Commander, that you not do so this moment. Please take the extra day?”

Had he asked this the previous day, her superior or no, Jadzia probably would have officially given him her refusal right then anyway. Aside from the knowledge that she couldn’t take it, it displeased her when superior officers made these kind of pressure-filled requests to her, and it also raised the question of how happy she’d be serving under him, even if the position was in every other way what she’d always wanted. But now she was aware she might just need what that new position and rank could bring her. She could write Nerys her recommendation, for one thing.

“Very well,” she said. “I’ll give you my answer tomorrow night.” If for any reason Julian failed her, she doubted Nerys would take that long to act. In fact, she was hoping she at least would give her time enough and not act sooner.

She went back and forth about comming her as she went to Julian’s. But she ultimately decided against it. Best not to give her any hopes until they could be fulfilled. Besides, Worf might or might not be too busy to talk to her anyway.

When she rang the bell, she heard Julian’s, “Jadzia? Is that you?” which sounded nervous and unlike him. When she called out, “Yes, it’s me,” the door slid open to reveal him still in uniform, but in his blue undershirt; he even still had his boots on. “Come in quickly,” he said.

He’d been on the starbase a little longer than Jadzia and Worf had, which made it shocking that he hadn’t unpacked. His suitcases sat by the table, one of them opened out on the floor with its contents scattered and spilling over. The rest of the room was bare; he hadn’t even set up the holo of his family that had been taken after his father had finally been released. “Wow,” she commented, “have they been keeping you extra busy or something?”

“No,” said Julian. “It’s a little more complicated than that. Or maybe simpler. Sit down.”

Something was wrong, obviously. In fact, when she took a close look at Julian now, Jadzia saw other things, like that it didn’t look like he’d been sleeping much, and, more than that, he looked almost ill. “I suppose I should get you a drink,” he said. “You might want it too, I’m afraid.”

“No,” she said, because she couldn’t afford it for her side of this conversation. Although vital as that was to her and Worf’s future, it was getting harder to concentrate on that, when all she could think was a desperate What’s wrong with him, please…

He looked over at the replicator, then shook his head. “I should be sober for this conversation myself,” he said. “I suppose after it I can drink all I want now, until…”

“Until what?!” That sounded like…No. No, please no…

“Well,” he took a deep breath. “Remember when I once said I was glad that the person who did my genetic resequencing knew what he was doing? Well, it turns out, he made a mistake. A tiny one, which for over thirty years didn’t matter, but in genetic engineering, even the slightest thing off will spell disaster sooner or later, and later has become now. Became it a few months ago, actually, when I started having memory issues. Took me most of the time since to find out what the problem was.”

“And the prognosis?” Jadzia asked. Please, let the answer be anything but…

“It’s not an absolute one yet,” sighed Julian. “I might not even get that; it’s not like there are many examples we doctors can look to in order to get one. But given what’s breaking down in here?” He sadly tapped his forehead. “Death might be what will happen if I’m lucky.”

“No, that can’t be true!” Jadzia protested. “And can’t they go back in and fix you, like you did to Sarina?”

“I’ve looked into that.” He sounded so, so tired. “But my brain issues aren’t the same as hers. If I had a year, maybe I could come up with a version of the operation I performed on her which would work on me, or some colleague could. But in a year, if I’m still alive? I’ll be a blubbering idiot unable to remember what happened a few days ago if I’m lucky, and even less capable of doing anything if I’m not, and probably beyond the kind of help that Sarina had. They’ll have to take me to the institution they still keep Jack and Patrick and Lauran in, and what will they think, seeing me as in worse condition than even them-though they might not even be allowed to see me, to keep them from being traumatized.”

“But it’s not absolute.” Jadzia felt herself grasping at what she could.

“It’s over a 90% chance.”

As Jadzia still sat there, trying to face what she was realizing was the unfaceable, he said, “I made what’s going to be the closest I’ll get to a full diagnosis a couple of days ago. Right now I’m trying to settle my affairs, and taking care of a few last things. Tomorrow morning I’m going to hand in my resignation. I’m going to go home, go see my parents, then probably do some more traveling; there have been some places I’ve always wanted to see. I probably have at least a couple of months before I really start to degenerate. If I have time I’ll come see you again, but once I really start to go, I don’t want any of you to see me like that.”

The thought that this might be the last she ever saw of Julian made Jadzia burst into tears, rough, fast ones that nearly ripped themselves out of her eyes. And now he was moving around and giving her a hug, he, who should be the one crying, not her, but she was just feeling so weak and worn, and she wanted to just spill everything, not even for the sake of making her request, but just so Julian would know, so there wouldn’t be that awful barrier between them.

“Oh, Jadzia,” he sighed, and pressed the chastest of kisses into her hair. “You know, for the first time, I’m happy you married Worf. I think…maybe you know why I wasn’t before this. But imagine if I was your husband, and now this was happening to he who you’d been planning to spend the rest of your life with. Now you’ll cry for me, but you’ll still have him, and your beautiful little boy…”

“Beautiful!” Even under the circumstances, Jadzia couldn’t help but snort through her tears. “You know most wouldn’t describe it that way.”

“He’s your son. Of course he’s beautiful.”

“You shouldn’t be talking to me like this,” sobbed Jadzia. “You shouldn’t feel like that about me. You should feel that way about…”

“About who?” It was his turn to snort. “About someone else that in a year’s time I’d then either make a widow or burden with a literal idiot husband who she’d have to divorce is she had any sense? No, I think things have worked out for the best.”

But you should never feel that way about yourself. Not even if he was about to die, not even then, because as far as Jadzia was concerned, Julian deserved the love and devotion she had never been able to give him, and the woman who would travel with him and nurse him to the bitter end and be thankful even in her grief that she’d gotten to have him.

Besides, if she’d married him, she wouldn’t have committed the sin she had. There wouldn’t have been a need, probably. But then again, she’d always known that marrying Julian would have led to her having a much easier life, even if she’d never given too much thought to it. She’d never made her choices based on what was easy.

And she wasn’t going to now, either. It would be easy, she thought, to explain everything. She thought if she did, Julian would give up the last months of his life, take the promotion and use it to save her and Worf. It was the logical thing to do, he would say; they had their entire lives to live out preserved from disaster; what was one year compared to that? Jadzia could tell herself that as well, repeat to herself that Julian had willingly made the choice, and also that she’d done what she’d had to do. She could do that every day for the rest of her life, and eventually, she thought, she wouldn’t even feel that guilty anymore.

But thinking about doing all that, taking advantage of this man, who had loved her for years, quietly and resignedly after he had been forced to give up all hope, who had acted as her friend and often confident, listening without complaint whenever she’d been mad at Worf, even helped them have Turink…it made Jadzia feel ill. She wasn’t going to do it, not even for this.

Except now Julian was looking at her and saying, “Is there anything you need to tell me? It looks to me like there is.” Nothing in his voice besides concern; he wasn’t even hoping for a declaration of feeling or anything like that.

“Nothing you need to worry about now,” she said. “Or should.”

“No, Jadzia,” he said. “I know you. You’re trying to spare me something, and please, don’t do that out of pity.”

“I can’t,” she protested. “I can’t take advantage of you. I’d be a monster if I did.”

“Jadzia, please, if you need my help…you ought to have known already I’d do anything for you, and that’s even more true now, when what would I lose by doing it?” He was getting up from his seat now, moving to kneel at her feet, and that sight was not one Jadzia was ever going to be willing to see. In a desperate move to stop him she grabbed him to pull him up, a desperate tiny please escaped her, and next thing she knew they were kissing, hard and deep.

It felt good, better than Jadzia had ever thought it might. Her hands found Julian’s face; his skin was soft. He didn’t even flinch from how cold she knew her hands were. His arms were around her, and he was kissing without shame, making tiny sounds into her mouth that Jadzia thought just might wreck her.

Some tiny voice in the back of her mind was yelling at her to pull back, but she wasn’t listening, not right now. Now instead she heard the blood roaring in her ears, the shifting of cloth against cloth, the overwhelming part of her brain that just wanted to go on kissing this man forever.

She didn’t even know how long they’d kissed for when they finally parted, foreheads still pressed together. She kept her eyes and hands on that flushed, panting face, tried to memorize the feel of it beneath her hands, since she knew she’d certainly never touch it again, even if she perhaps might again see it.

“There’s no one in my life who’s meant to me what you have,” he finally breathed. “Even if I had longer to live, I don’t know if there ever could be, though that doesn’t really matter now.” He shook his head. “I shouldn’t be troubling you with this part.”

“Quit acting like you’re now just a burden on the universe!” she cried, feeling even worse when he gently but firmly pushed away from her. “You never were and you never will be.”

But Julian was shaking his head. “If you don’t want my help, you should go. Before you possibly do something you’ll regret for the rest of your life.”

The crazy thing was, while she’d no doubt feel guilty afterwards, Jadzia wasn’t sure she would actually regret it. She knew she ought to, but some instinct warned her the feeling wouldn’t come, at least so long as Worf never found out.

So much where it would all be fine, just as long as her husband never found out.

It was that awareness, and the fear, that got Jadzia to do as he had said, to turn around and start walking out, the door barely getting open for her in time, fast enough there wasn’t time to feel any temptation to look back. For ten more minutes after even that she strode down the corridor, at least one ensign scurrying out of her way, putting more distance between herself and the man she still wasn’t sure she wouldn’t want to run back to if she stopped to think.

Eventually she began to tire; it had been a long day of worrying even before this. She slowed her pace down, but continued walking, making her way back to her quarters.

By the time she got there, she had relived that kiss three times, each time pushing it from her mind, knowing she needed to forget it had happened, even though she also knew she never would. Worf wouldn’t be in, she reminded herself. Turink wouldn’t either. No one would be in their quarters, and she would be safely alone to break down and cry and figure out how she was going to live even with losing Julian like this, let alone the even worse thing happening at the moment.

Except Nerys was there. Jadzia hadn’t even known she knew how to break through Starfleet locks. She was so shocked she was completely unable to speak as she just stood there, then at Nerys’ impatient gesture finally stepped forward just enough for the door to close behind her.

“I just had another exchange of messages with Worf,” she said. “I won’t even repeat what he said. Honestly, I’m starting to lose a lot of my respect for him. Enough that I really don’t feel bad about doing what I’ll have to do now.”

That just made Jadzia know what she herself now had to do. She wished she had a knife on her. Then she could’ve done it right away. But instead she could only hiss, “You won’t. I won’t let you. In fact, you’d better contact Worf right and now and tell him you’re about to lose all your power over him, because it’ll be gone with me!”

She hadn’t even finished talking before she started a purposeful stride towards the kitchenette, but before she could get more than a couple of meters Nerys, her resistance-fighter reflexes undulled by all the years that had passed, was in front of her, with a, “No, Jadzia, you’re not killing yourself.”

“You,” Jadzia growled, “do not get to act like you’re my friend anymore, especially not when you’re driving me to do this to protect my husband.”

“Fine, then. You kill yourself right now and I’ll frame him for murder.”

She obviously could, and at the moment, Jadzia couldn’t think of an immediate way to off herself which would make it impossible for Nerys to make it look like she’d been killed. She sagged, and said, “Well, I know what he said to you when you told him.”

“Told him? Oh,” Nerys shook her head. “Actually, I haven’t told him anything yet. He didn’t give me a chance. But the minute I get back to my quarters, I’m going to start writing a message to him. I don’t know if I’ll finish it tonight, but I’ll try. Do you know, if you kill yourself after I walk out of here, and I still go public with the story, anyone who even slightly believes in any of the Klingon stereotypes will find a way to blame him for it, even if they don’t think he did it himself?”

“You don’t get the chance to frame him, then what does that matter?” Jadzia could have laughed, had she felt less devastated. “He won’t care what any of them think.”

“But I think you would. And I’m pretty sure, sooner or later, that your son would.”

That last one stopped Jadzia’s thoughts in their tracks. Nerys could tell, too, and she pressed on: “You want to condemn him to grow up with two parents disgraced, one dead? And you know Worf needs help when it comes to raising children. Just look at the whole sequence of events that happened with his first son.”

“That wasn’t entirely his fault,” Jadzia growled, repeating the speech she’d made more than once. “His parents struggled with Alexander first.”

“Yeah, Alexander, who didn’t get along with his peers, who struggled with only being partially Klingon, and whose mother died a violent death when he was young. Sound familiar?”

It did, all too much. And then Nerys said, “But I do know one thing Worf would do, what any good parent would do. That’s protect his children at all costs. Even that of his honor.”

“You don’t know what Worf would do.” Not like Jadzia herself did.

“I worked alongside him, much more closely than you did, at times. I know enough. I know that I’ll get even more than my recommendation out of him now. That was all I would have demanded, you know, when this whole thing started. Foolish of me. I’ve thought since, of what will probably await me when I reach Earth. Don’t tell me they’ll want me there. I know they won’t. They might still grant me admission. From what I understand about Federation-Bajoran relations right now, they’ll probably worried Bajor will be offended if they don’t. I need all the paperwork in order, but if I get it, I get that much.

But do you really think they won’t look for any excuse, and I mean any, to throw me out once I get there? Or, if they can’t find one, they won’t make sure I never obtain any rank above Ensign? And I’ve worked too hard and lost too much-”

“Yeah,” Jadzia interrupted, her rage kicking in, “like all of your morals.”

But she was chilled to the bone by the complete lack of change in Nerys’ expression, and the cold way she replied, “You haven’t seen anything yet, Jadzia. You and Worf, you’ll both be dealing with me for a long time. I get expelled, it all comes out. And after I graduate, you’ll get me up to my old rank as fast as possible. Since the start of this, by the way, I’ve been hoping I might eventually get myself into a position where I can help Bajor, but then, I was worried the way things go at Starfleet, I might be old before I got that far. But you two, you’re going to get me there within a few years.”

“Are you truly going to try to justify yourself?!” Jadzia demanded, even more appalled. “When once, the Kira Nerys I knew…”

“The Kira Nerys you know had a history of doing sometimes violent things indeed when her planet was at stake,” she retorted. “Things that sometimes pushed the boundaries of interplanetary law, at the very least. I know you don’t like to remember that, of course, didn’t like to think of the fact that at one time I was a terrorist.”

“Only because you had to be. Bajor’s not going to be in that situation again.”

“You don’t know what’s going to happen on Bajor.” There was a very real resentment in the way she said that. “Even if the Cardassians aren’t really in shape to do what they once did to it again, no society recovers that quickly. And you saw what happened a year after the Occupation ended, and what’s happened most recently. For the record, Jadzia, I would give my life to prevent that from happening again.”

“That’s your life, not mine,” Jadzia protested. “That’s still at stake here.”

“Didn’t I just point out how killing yourself will do Worf no good? I’ll get what I want either way. And in fact, speaking of your marriage,” and there was something new her tone here, some hint of genuine regret, “don’t you think you should’ve told your husband about all of this, long ago?”

“You really don’t understand…”

“Maybe I don’t. But you know what, Jadzia? I’m going to do you one last favor, explaining this to him. I’ll even try to emphasize that you really felt you needed to do it to keep him alive. I do feel he ought not to be angry with you, though I suppose it’s too much to hope for he won’t be. At least you won’t have to keep any dark secrets from him anymore.”

Had she said only an hour ago, of course, that would’ve been true. And Jadzia certainly wasn’t telling her now why it no longer would be.

So instead she remained silent, as Nerys turned and walked out. The door was in the process of closing behind her when she turned and said, “You have six hours to tell him before I do.”

After stumbling into the nearest chair, for a few minutes, all Jadzia could do was cry. She thought of the life she’d planned to have, the things she might now not get to see, such as her son growing up. When she thought of what Nerys had just said, she found she wasn’t sure which option would be worse, Turink growing up with a mother who had committed suicide, or him growing up with parents disgraced by his father’s race, and both of them probably struggling to live with everything that had happened.

Anger kicked in next. Jadzia wanted to go out and yell at everyone. Nerys, Worf, the Klingon who had refused to not kill him when anyone with either sense or decency would’ve backed down, and everyone else she could even partly blame. She even thought uncharitably of Odo, of how if he hadn’t left the woman he’d supposedly loved so much and for so long, she might have avoided much of the downward spiral she’d gone down that had led them to this.

But then again, she found herself thinking, maybe she should be nicer to Odo. Because as she sat there, she came to realize that her next course of action had to be to disclose everything to someone, make a statement of truth they could attest to, and Odo was pretty much the only person she had for it.

So when she pulled herself up, her tears mostly dried, she went to comm him, to ask him to please come as quickly as possible.

Much to her relief, he answered only a couple of minutes later, saying he was on his way. But when Jadzia checked the chronometer, she discovered enough time had passed that Worf would soon be back as well.

And, unfortunately, it was her husband, rather than Odo, who walked in first. Somehow Jadzia found herself blurting out, “Nerys just said to me the two of you talked again.”

“Jadzia,” the warning tone in his voice was unmistakable, “I do not wish to further discuss this matter, and you ought not to waste your time when I will not change my mind.”

She shouldn’t have hoped for otherwise. But she still asked, “Just tell me what she said in response. I’m kind of worried she’s mad at me, but she didn’t give me anything to go on.”

“She ought not to have become that foolish. And she said very little in response, at least then, though she did indicate she might soon send me a message.”

Before Jadzia could even react to that, the doorchime sounded. “That’s probably Odo,” she said. “I just need to talk to him about something that came up in the lab today.” She’s in front of the door when it opens, and before he can speak she says, “Odo! So glad you got here so quickly. Let’s talk about the readings off those weird quartz stones out here; I’m not sure the commander wants me talking about them around anyone else, even my husband.”

When they were safely out in the corridor, he hissed at her, “And what if he happens to hear there aren’t any ‘weird quartz stones’ on the Starbase?”

“He won’t,” she replied. “He rarely pays attention to what I’m doing in the lab if something hasn’t given him a reason to. Do you have a communicator?”

“They gave me a handheld.” He pulled it out of a side pocket. “Who do you want me to contact? I…I don’t think I could do this with Nerys over a comm.”

“Noone. I just want you to record this and be able to testify to its veracity later, if that becomes necessary.”

“What? Commander, you…”

“Five years ago, when Worf and I escaped Dominion custody, he was asleep when we received a distress call from Yarmok III.” She told the entire story, holding up a hand whenever a shocked-looking Odo tried to interrupt, finishing, “Since then, Worf has never had any idea that any of this has happened. I hearby make it my dying declaration that all I have just said is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and memory, and that Mr. Odo, who is making this recording, can attribute that it is not in any way doctored.” She then reached over and turned the communicator off.

“Your dying declaration?” Odo now sounded horrified.

“That makes it admissible in all Federation courts. I don’t know about Klingon ones, but I don’t think they’d be all that likely to outright charge Worf with anything; the biggest danger he’d be in legally would be a court-martial-and one look at this recording and they’d never go forward with it, what with all the other circumstances involved.”

Odo just shook his head. “Jadzia, you don’t intend to die, do you?!”

She has to explain this now, which she never thought she’d have to do, or maybe just really hoped. “Odo,” she said, “Nerys knows what happened; I don’t even know how she found out, but it doesn’t really matter. And she’s…” This is really going to break his heart. “The things she suffered while you were gone, the state it reduced her to…she is now threatening to make this public. In which case…” Here came the part she could only really half explain. “Worf would do something wonderful, and miraculous, and that I couldn’t stand to live with him having done, because he would do it for me. I couldn’t stand to live with it.”

“And yet it’s wonderful and miraculous?” Odo was just shaking his head.

Maybe she could’ve explained it if she’d had more time. But it was only so long before Worf would come out to check on them. Even now, she was trying to figure out what to say to him when they came back in.

After another moment, Odo said, “Listen, Jadzia, maybe it still doesn’t have to come to that. I may know that Nerys went through a good deal, but I still can’t believe she truly wants to do this to you, that she wouldn’t maybe listen if I tried to talk to her. It’s worth a shot, I think."

Normally Jadzia would’ve hesitated, would’ve not wanted to put Odo through that if he still wasn’t ready. But at this point she was truly desperate. And anyway, it might ultimately be very good for them both to finally talk.

“All right,” she said. “She’s given me six hours before she contacts Worf.”

As if this last utterance of his name had summoned him, the doors to their quarters slid back open, and her husband peered outside. Before he could ask, Jadzia quickly put her smile back on, saying, “Odo and I are just wrapping up the serious business for the day, and now if you want to have him over for dinner…” Probably he’d say no.

But to her surprise, he said, “Very well.”

It was all right, she told herself. It would only be a couple of hours. After that he’d still have time.

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TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

Michael Sorkin

 1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.  2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.  3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.  4.    The modulus of rupture.  5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.  6.    The distance of a whisper.  7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.  9.    In your town (include the rich). 10.    The flowering season for azaleas. 11.    The insulating properties of glass. 12.    The history of its production and use. 13.    And of its meaning. 14.    How to lay bricks. 15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16.    The rate at which the seas are rising. 17.    Building information modeling (BIM). 18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19.    The Gini coefficient. 20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21.    In a wheelchair. 22.    The energy embodied in aluminum. 23.    How to turn a corner. 24.    How to design a corner. 25.    How to sit in a corner. 26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31.    The basics of mud construction. 32.    The direction of prevailing winds. 33.    Hydrology is destiny. 34.    Jane Jacobs in and out. 35.    Something about feng shui. 36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37.    Elementary ergonomics. 38.    The color wheel. 39.    What the client wants. 40.    What the client thinks it wants. 41.    What the client needs. 42.    What the client can afford. 43.    What the planet can afford. 44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46.    Another language. 47.    What the brick really wants. 48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52.    Where the CCTV cameras are. 53.    Why Mies really left Germany.

Upto #53 ready reckoner here: https://adamachrati.wordpress.com/category/sorkin-250/

54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55.    The structural properties of tufa. 56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58.    Vitruvius. 59.    Walter Benjamin. 60.    Marshall Berman. 61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65.    Entasis. 66.    The history of Soweto. 67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68.    Back-up. 69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70.    Shear and moment. 71.    Shakespeare, et cetera. 72.    How the crow flies. 73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74.    How the pyramids were built. 75.    Why. 76.    The pleasures of the suburbs. 77.    The horrors. 78.    The quality of light passing through ice. 79.    The meaninglessness of borders. 80.    The reasons for their tenacity. 81.    The creativity of the ecotone. 82.    The need for freaks. 83.    Accidents must happen. 84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85.    The smell of concrete after rain. 86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87.    How to ride a bicycle. 88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90.    The wages of construction workers. 91.    Perspective by hand. 92.    Sentence structure. 93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94.    The thrill of the ride. 95.    Where materials come from. 96.    How to get lost. 97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98.    What human differences are defensible in practice. 99.    Creation is a patient search. 100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105.    How to dérive. 106.    Woodshop safety. 107.    A great deal about the Gothic. 108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109.    A distaste for imperialism. 110.    The history of Beijing. 111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112.    Aristotle’s Politics. 113.    His Poetics. 114.    The basics of wattle and daub. 115.    The origins of the balloon frame. 116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119.    Where else to sink it. 120.    The fire code. 121.    The seismic code. 122.    The health code. 123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124.    How to listen closely. 125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126.    The exquisite corpse. 127.    Scissors, stone, paper. 128.    Good Bordeaux. 129.    Good beer. 130.    How to escape a maze. 131.    QWERTY. 132.    Fear. 133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134.    The proper way to behave with interns. 135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137.    How to calculate ecological footprints. 138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139.    The value of human life. 140.    Who pays. 141.    Who profits. 142.    The Venturi effect. 143.    How people pee. 144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145.    The fine print in the contract. 146.    A smattering of naval architecture. 147.    The idea of too far. 148.    The idea of too close. 149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151.    The density needed to support a subway. 152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155.    Constructivism, in and out. 156.    Sinan. 157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159.    Several other artistic media. 160.    A bit of chemistry and physics. 161.    Geodesics. 162.    Geodetics. 163.    Geomorphology. 164.    Geography. 165.    The Law of the Andes. 166.    Cappadocia first-hand. 167.    The importance of the Amazon. 168.    How to patch leaks. 169.    What makes you happy. 170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171.    The view from the Acropolis. 172.    The way to Santa Fe. 173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175.    Half as much as a London cabbie. 176.    The Nolli Plan. 177.    The Cerdà Plan. 178.    The Haussmann Plan. 179.    Slope analysis. 180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181.    Dawn breaking after a bender. 182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183.    Betty Friedan. 184.    Guy Debord. 185.    Ant Farm. 186.    Archigram. 187.    Club Med. 188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189.    Solid geometry. 190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191.    Ha Long Bay. 192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193.    In Rio. 194.    In Calcutta. 195.    In Curitiba. 196.    In Mumbai. 197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198.    Why you think architecture does any good. 199.    The depreciation cycle. 200.    What rusts. 201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202.    How to play a musical instrument. 203.    Which way the wind blows. 204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205.    How to guard a house from floods. 206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208.    Where north (or south) is. 209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210.    Stadtluft macht frei. 211.    Underneath the pavement the beach. 212.    Underneath the beach the pavement. 213.    The germ theory of disease. 214.    The importance of vitamin D. 215.    How close is too close. 216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217.    The draught of ferries. 218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219.    The difference between gabions and riprap. 220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221.    How to open the window. 222.    The diameter of the earth. 223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226.    Concrete finishes. 227.    Brick bonds. 228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230.    The energy potential of the wind. 231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232.    Paestum. 233.    Straw-bale building technology. 234.    Rachel Carson. 235.    Freud. 236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237.    Of Alvar Aalto. 238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240.    Mesa Verde National Park. 241.    Chichen Itza. 242.    Your neighbors. 243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246.    How to cut a truly elegant section. 247.    The depths of desire. 248.    The heights of folly. 249.    Low tide. 250.    The Golden and other ratios.

Published in: Michael Sorkin, What Goes Up, London: Verso, 2018.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Covid deaths (1440) The number of reported global deaths attributed to COVID-19 passed 6 million overnight, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The symbolic mark was surpassed just days shy of the two-year anniversary of the declaration of a global pandemic March 11, 2020. The US accounts for roughly 16% of total reported deaths, followed by Brazil (10%), India (9%), Russia (6%), and Mexico (5%). More than 445 million total cases have been reported. Meanwhile, the number of new cases reported in the US continues to fall, dropping below 50,000 per day.

Gas tops $4 per gallon average, 1st time since 2008 (AP) The price of regular gasoline broke $4 per gallon (3.8 liters) on average across the U.S. on Sunday for the first time since 2008. During the first full week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the price of regular gas rose by almost 41 cents, according to the AAA motor club. “As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to evolve and we head into a season where gas prices typically increase, Americans should prepare to pay more for gas than they ever have before,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said in a statement. The all-time high for average gasoline prices was set in July 17, 2008 at $4.10 per gallon.

Ukraine crisis overview (NYT) Today’s front page of The New York Times featured a powerful photo taken by Lynsey Addario, who witnessed civilians killed while fleeing the Russian advance in Irpin, near Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. A woman, her teenage son and her daughter, who appeared to be about 8 years old, and a family friend—among the many panicked civilians running for cover—were killed when they were hit by a mortar that landed in the street. The attack suggested that Russian forces had either directly targeted evacuees or disregarded the risk to civilians. The tactic is being witnessed across Ukraine as Russian forces step up indiscriminate attacks on civilians and lay siege to cities, trapping residents. An evacuation effort from Mariupol—a port city of a half-million people on the southeastern coast—was twice halted over the weekend as Russian forces kept up shelling. Residents there have no heat through freezing nights, and food supplies are running low. An attempt to bring supplies into Mariupol today failed. Russia had announced a temporary pause in fighting in some combat zones to allow civilians to flee, but its continued shelling around evacuation paths made the cease-fires all but meaningless. Ukraine dismissed a Russian proposal to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from cities because it would involve taking civilians to Russia and Belarus, rather than to the West. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, accused Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, of “moral and political cynicism” for offering safety to civilians under fire from Putin’s own forces. In less than a week, the U.S. and NATO have provided Ukraine with more than 17,000 anti-tank weapons including Javelin missiles, unloading them from military cargo planes in neighboring countries so they can be transported by land to Kyiv and other major cities. U.S. officials say Ukrainian leaders have told them that the supplied weaponry is making a difference on the battlefield. But some U.S. national security officials are concerned that a more direct conflict with Russia is increasingly likely. The Baltic states are demanding assurances from the U.S. that they will not become Russia’s next battleground.

Ukraine says Russia steps up shelling of residential areas (AP) Russian forces intensified shelling of cities in Ukraine’s center, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, upending attempts to evacuate besieged civilians. With the Ukrainian leader urging his people to fight in the streets, Russian President Vladimir Putin shifted blame for the invasion, saying Moscow’s attacks could be halted “only if Kyiv ceases hostilities.” The outskirts of Kyiv, Chernihiv in the north, Mykolaiv in the south, and Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, faced stepped-up shelling late Sunday, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said. “This is likely to represent an effort to break Ukrainian morale,” the U.K. Ministry of Defense said of Russian tactics as the war entered its 12th day Monday. Fighting has caused 1.5 million people to flee the country, which the head of the U.N. refugee agency called “the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.” The most recent attacks dashed hopes that more people could escape the fighting in Ukraine, where Russia’s plan to quickly overrun the country has been stymied by fierce resistance.

Arming Ukraine: 17,000 Anti-Tank Weapons in 6 Days and a Clandestine Cybercorps (NYT) On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning, pallets of rifles, ammunition and other weapons were being loaded onto one of the largest cargo planes in the world, an Antonov AN-124, belonging to the Ukrainian air force. It is an artifact of the Cold War, built and purchased when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union. Now it is being turned back against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of a vast airlift that American and European officials describe as a desperate race against time, to get tons of arms into the hands of Ukrainian forces while their supply routes are still open. Scenes like this, reminiscent of the Berlin airlift—the famed race by the Western allies to keep West Berlin supplied with essentials in 1948 and 1949 as the Soviet Union sought to choke it off—are playing out across Europe. In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities. So far, Russian forces have been so preoccupied in other parts of the country that they have not targeted the arms supply lines, but few think that can last. But those are only the most visible contributions. Hidden away on bases around Eastern Europe, forces from United States Cyber Command known as “cybermission teams” are in place to interfere with Russia’s digital attacks and communications. In Washington and Germany, intelligence officials race to merge satellite photographs with electronic intercepts of Russian military units, strip them of hints of how they were gathered, and beam them to Ukrainian military units within an hour or two.

U.S. and allies quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long insurgency (Washington Post) The Ukrainian military has mounted an unexpectedly fierce defense against invading Russian forces, which have been dogged by logistical problems and flagging morale. But the war is barely two weeks old, and in Washington and European capitals, officials anticipate that the Russian military will reverse its early losses, setting the stage for a long, bloody insurgency. Ukraine’s allies are planning how to help establish and support a government-in-exile, which could direct guerrilla operations against Russian occupiers, according to several U.S. and European officials. The weapons the United States has provided to Ukraine’s military would be crucial to the success of an insurgent movement, officials said. The Biden administration has asked Congress, infused with a rare bipartisan spirit in defense of Ukraine, to take up a $10 billion humanitarian aid and military package that includes funding to replenish the stocks of weapons that have already been sent.

Ukrainian Families Feel the Pain of Separation (NYT) Iryna Dukhota has been married to her husband for 26 years. She met him when they were young, as he was riding his bike through her neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. But a few days ago, on a gray, windswept morning, with thousands of people rushing around them, the couple stood at the Ukraine-Poland border, lips quivering. After all these years, it was time to say goodbye. “I told him ‘I love you’ and ‘We will see each other soon,’” Ms. Dukhota said, her eyes pooling. Now, she says, she does not know when or even if she will ever see him again. As the Russian Army bears down on Ukraine from the north, south and east, a mass migration of millions of civilians is gathering like a storm over the plains. But the international border gates are a painful filter, splitting families apart. The Ukrainian government has mandated that men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave the country, so the crowds pouring into Poland, Hungary and other neighboring nations are eerily devoid of men. It is almost exclusively women and young children who pass through the checkpoints after heartbreaking goodbyes. The Ukrainian men, whether they want to or not, turn back to fight. Some Ukrainian women referred to the separations as “a little death.”

Hate for Putin's Russia Consumes Ukraine (NYT) If there is one overriding emotion gripping Ukraine right now, it is hate. It is a deep, seething bitterness for President Vladimir Putin, his military and his government. But Ukrainians are not giving a pass to ordinary Russians, either, calling them complicit through years of political passivity. The hatred is vented by mothers in bomb shelters, by volunteers preparing to fight on the front lines, by intellectuals and by artists. The emotion is so powerful it could not be assuaged even by an Orthodox religious holiday on Sunday intended to foster forgiveness before Lent. Called Forgiveness Sunday, the holiday is recognized in both the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches. And this hatred has overwhelmed the close personal ties between two Slavic nations, where many people have family living in both countries. Billboards have gone up along roadsides in gigantic block letters, telling Russians in profanity-laced language to get out. Social media posts in spaces often shared by Russians and Ukrainians have been awash in furious comments. Some Ukrainians have posted pictures of people killed in the military assault in Russian chat rooms on the Telegram app. They have vented by writing on the reviews pages for websites of Moscow restaurants. They blame millions of Russians, who Ukrainians say gave up on the post-Soviet dreams of freedom and openness to the West, for enabling the war.

Jehovah’s Witnesses flee Russia for worship without fear (AP) Over the past five years, hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been subjected to raids, arrests and prosecution in Russia. Many others have fled—including one couple, Dmitrii and Nellia Antsybor, who flew to Mexico last year, walked across the U.S. border to seek asylum, and now hope to build a new life for themselves in Washington state. About 5,000 Witnesses in Ukraine have left, seeking protection in other countries, said Jarrod Lopes, a U.S.-based spokesperson for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. For Witnesses in Russia—Lopes estimates there are about 170,000 of them—there’s been anxiety since the country’s Supreme Court declared the Christian denomination an extremist group in 2017. Hundreds have been arrested and imprisoned. Their homes and places of worship, known as Kingdom Halls, have been raided, and the national headquarters seized. The Witnesses’ modern, Russian-language translation of the Bible has been banned along with its globally circulated magazines.

Pope Francis says ‘rivers of blood’ flowing in Ukraine war (Reuters) Pope Francis on Sunday rejected Russia’s use of the term “special military operation” for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the country was being battered by war and urging an immediate end to the fighting. “In Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation but a war which sows death, destruction and misery,” the pope said in his weekly address to crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square. The comments were the strongest the pope had yet made about the violence although, as has been the case throughout the conflict, he did not condemn Russia by name. Instead, he repeated his appeal for peace, the creation of humanitarian corridors and a return to negotiations. “In that martyred country the need for humanitarian assistance is growing by the hour,” the pope said, speaking from a window overlooking the square. “War is madness, please stop.”

South Korean campaign gets ugly (AP) The race between South Korea’s two leading presidential candidates has seen unprecedented levels of toxic rhetoric, mudslinging and lawsuits. How bad is it? “Hitler,” “beast,” and “parasite” are some of the choicer insults leveled by both camps. Some are even calling it “The Squid Game Election,” in reference to Netflix’s megahit survival drama where people are killed if they lose children’s games. And the stakes? There’s widespread speculation that the loser will be arrested. “It’s a dreadful presidential election when the losing contender faces prison. Please survive this dogfight in the mire!” senior opposition politician Hong Joon-pyo wrote on Facebook.

[queennsansa]

What are four music albums that mean a lot to you, and why? (please use pics for the aesthetic :'D)

Turns out it’s near impossible to limit this to four albums, but I tried! Hopefully these choices are somewhat interesting. 

The Resistance (2009) | Muse

The Resistance, perhaps surrpisingly, isn’t my favorite album of Muse’s - that would probably be Absolution (2003) or Black Holes and Revelations (2006). But it is the album that got me into them in the first place, and so it’s the one to deserve a spot on this list most. Muse is, and will probably always be, my favorite band, the perfect mix of stunning vocals, brilliant songwriting and fabulous theatricality. It’s Freddie Mercury and Chopin and Massive Attack all in one erratic discography (seven studio albums and counting!), and even when the genre doesn’t work for me I still love it, because some loves are unconditional and my relationship with Muse is one of those. I love their weirdness, their lyrics about alien invasions, futuristic westerns and dystopian societies, just as much as I love their killer guitar solos, and I especially love that they get to exist in the same songs. For a moment I considered picking a live album of theirs for this list, mostly because as good as their studio recordings are, nothing compares to the real thing. Going to their concert was probably one of the best nights of my life and the measure against which I hold all live shows I go to now, because Matt Bellamy is simply that good. But in the end, The Resistance won out because that’s where it all started for me, nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still here. This also happens to be one of my favorite album covers, truly gorgeous artwork.

Favorites: Uprising, Resistance, Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination), MK Ultra

Made in the A.M. (2015) | One Direction

I could get wildly pretentious here and pick albums that are critically acclaimed and that I undoubtedly love, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they hold any meaning to me personally. So, to be true to form, I’m going with the album that dominates my Ipod’s Most Played. Unlike The Resistance, Made in the A.M. is not the album that got me into One Direction (that was Midnight Memories (2013), but, well, that album just isn’t very good). It is, however, the album that feels the most them to me. We can debate the authenticity of Simon Cowell driven boybands until the end of time, but when the four of them ask, in the last bonus track, to pretend for just one more night that they’re ‘all gonna make it’, it feels like a more honest admission than anything on the other four albums before. This album reminds of late nights behind my computer, listening to grainy recordings of these songs with girls crying in the background. The title Made in the A.M. refers as much to the creation of the album as it does to my reception of it.This album is the last they released, a year after Zayn left, and it’s drenched in a nostalgia that can only come from six years of growing up together in the public eye, six years of friendship and fights, with the result being a sort of resigned maturity. The wary ‘who’s gonna be the first to say goodbye?’ from Four (2014) has shifted into ‘the fact that we can sit right here and say goodbye / means we’ve already won’, and yet even A.M. is filled with doubts. ‘Thought we were going strong / thought we were holding on / aren’t we?’. Less love songs (though those are still there, they are a boyband after all), more reflections of a couple of twenty-somethings who have seen all sides of fame, have had friendships and relationships fall apart across world tours and albums at a breakneck pace. And yet, A.M. feels like going out on a high. ‘We had some good times, didn’t we?’. Perhaps that’s all that matters in the end.

Favorites: What A Feeling, Walking in the Wind, A.M., Olivia,

Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon (2002) | Warren Zevon

Going back in time a little for my third pick. This is an album I’ll forever associate with my parents. When I was a kid me and my parents would go on holiday every year during the summer, to England, Italy… which would include long car rides, sometimes of several days. To fill the time, each of us got to bring five albums that we would then play in rotation. I made my parents suffer through Fall Out Boy, Green Day and Paramore (sorry mom and dad), they introduced me to The Eagles, Tom Waits, and Warren Zevon (never Dylan, cause my mom hates Dylan). Zevon was probably my favorite of my parents’ music, the perfect soundtrack to watching the surroundings race by through the window of a car. I don’t even have this album on my Ipod, I couldn’t tell you anything about Warren Zevon if you asked. I can’t do an analysis of his songs like I can for Muse or One Direction. But once in a while his songs will play on the radio, and I’ll flash back to those summer car rides, my parents complaining about Patrick Stump’s yelling, and me softly singing along to Werewolves of London in the backseat.

Favorites: Reconsider Me, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Werewolves of London

Waking Hour (2001) | Vienna Teng

Rounding off the list was tough. I considered a couple of artists I used to love, some angsty teen band such as Linkin Park or Panic! at the Disco, the soundtrack to my adolescence. As much as I love those albums, and even still love some of the bands, it didn’t feel quite right. I ended up settling for Waking Hour because it’s the album that calms me most when I’m feeling upset, like a comfortable blanket. Oddly enough, if you asked, I probably wouldn’t name Vienna Teng as one of my favorite artists, even though I have nearly all of her music on my Ipod. I don’t know anything about her or her career (I googled her for this list, it turns out she stopped making music in 2013 and is now doing activist work), but in this case I think it allows me to approach the songs without context, and they feel more personal and intimate because of it.Waking Hour is her first album, and it’s easily my favorite of hers. I love the vulnerability in it, the smoothness of Vienna’s angelic voice, the soft instruments which never overpower the vocals. Music can often soothe me, but this album especially. I love the desperation in ‘I need not to need / I’ve always been the tower / but now I feel like I’m the flower trying to bloom in snow’, the comfort of ‘now I am grown / and these days have shown / rain’s a part of how life goes / but it’s dark and it’s late / so I’ll hold you and wait / ‘til your frightened eyes do close’, and the eventual life-reaffirming ‘so we just hold on fast / acknowledge the past / as lessons exquisitely crafted / painstakingly drafted / to carve us as instruments / that play the music of life’. They’re only a couple of examples of the beautiful storytelling Vienna Teng is capable of, and it’s the kind of music that should be enjoyed in silence, with eyes closed to shut out the world.

Favorites: The Tower, Lullaby for a Stormy Night, Eric’s Song

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Ten Song Tag Game

I was tagged by @coffeewithconsequences !

Rules: list ten songs you’re currently obsessed with and tag ten others.

So, here is the thing. I can only obsess about one song at a time, and I play it on a loop for days and days. As I tell people, I cannot like anything a normal amount. Thus, I have currated a list with commentary because that is just how I roll. 

1) A Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kely

But you'll fight and you'll make it through

You’ll fake it if you have to

And you'll show up for work with a smile

And you'll be better and you'll be smarter

And more grown up and a better daughter

Or son, and a real good friend

This song is about Kent Parson’s rookie year in my series Sowing Season. Kent Parson is my Patronus, so this song is also about me. 

Past obsessive songs (I’m excluding Bright Eyes, Fall Out Boy, and The Decemberists cause I cannot choose between any of their songs):

2) I am Trying to Break Your Heart by Wilco -- the layers in this song are amazing, as is the wordplay. “I am an American aquarium drinker, I assassin down the avenue.” Like, is there a better way to describe the post-breakup, drink-your-hurt-away sads than that? There is not.

3) Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn -- I watched Season 3 of the original Skam and nothing has ever been ok since. Plus, the video for this song is amazing. 

4) Debaser by The Pixies (video has some graphic surgical like content)-- Don’t you love it when iconic alt-rock bands make a song that heavily incorporates a surrealist film co-created by Luis Buñel and Salvidor Dali? I do. 

5) Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl by Broken Social Scene -- Michael Chabon’s ending paragraph in Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a book I reread almost yearly, is about what he calls “ruinous nostalgia.” So is this song, which will make you want to lay on the floor in the summer heat next to an oscillating fan that’s cooling your body in bursts. 

6) Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) by Beyonce -- I’m not linking to this cause come on. When this dropped I was freshly single. My friends staged an intervention about how often I played this. 

7) Run Dry (X fingers X hands) by Patrick Stump -- to me, this is a song where you see PStump’s unique approach to songs but still see a bit of the influence that the cleverness of Pete Wentz’s language had on him. Maybe? I think so.

8) The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah -- Look, my family came from Appalachia, and I now live in New York City, and there are two lines that are exactly me: “You look a bit like coffee, and you taste a bit like me” and “But let me tell you I never planned / To let go of the hand that has been / Clinging by its thick country skin.” This song is as autobiographic as anything from a mostly forgotten mid-2000′s band can be. 

9) Boy Problems AND Cut to the Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen -- Queen Carly Rae writes the best pop music that’s out today. Thank you, LGBT community for recognizing her brilliance. 

10) Nights by Frank Ocean -- I mean, really the entirety of Blond/e. In the intro to Richard Siken’s Crush, it says that it’s a collection of poems about panic. For me, Blond/e is kind of a different side of that, the self-destructiveness of the queer experience tempered by beauty and moments of true clarity. Also, the mid-song shift into the second half of the album is amazing, and he mentions “only going to Shoney’s on occasion” and Shoney’s was my family’s jam in my childhood. 

Gosh, that was fun. 

Tagging @yoursummerfrost, @zombizombi , @muchandquick , @benjji2795 , @bazanite . Maybe you all will be better at not going off on questionable music analysis and autobiographic rants, but I would love it if you did. 

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Discourse of Saturday, 17 April 2021

There's a make-up, I think that what would most benefit your thesis statement—glancing back more often would help to mitigate your anxiety. I liked your paper has at least some background on Irish nationalism. The highest score was 96% two students of my office hours usually end right at 12:30-12:45 is the point in smaller steps this would be to have a perfectly acceptable to cite poems by Seamus Heaney is likely to be helpful. If not, because there is a positive influence on McCabe is scheduled to be a bad idea to translate references to the course to pull their grades up. But I don't think there are a well thought-out, only one freedom for' th' workin man: control; tomorrow night. Failure to turn it into an A-paper demonstrates a solid delivery. Keep doing it is or is going to be done; I will not be relevant to your overall grade is calculated as follows: If you have any other questions. Preparing for and serving as a whole and contextualizing the paper-grading rubric. If you do all three of the play. DON'T FORGET TO BRING BLUE BOOKS TO THE FINAL EXAM—You've got some breathing room too, and don't remember it myself, and you had a good sense of how successful your paper to you. Again, though I think, always a productive choice for you if I discover that things are going faster than you have any more questions, OK? Would 12:30. You might note that discussion notes here but not catastrophically so. Skim some of the performances you gave in section. Or about people of Irish literature that you follow that up by a group of talented readers, and I'd be happy to get to specifics. Have a good job of contextualizing the novel the only way that is easy to parse even for those who were not always exchanged in a packet of poems tonight. Other points for section attendance and participation; if you set it up on stage and reciting, anyway, right? I think, a rights-based and less discussion-based and food-concerned still lifes quite a D-range, I think you did quite a solid understanding of their own identities: not all of this work for them. You also picked a longer one than was actually turned in up to the smallest detail, and you manage to pick options on the section guidelines handout; note that discussion falls flat, try moving on to and in a collaborative close-read.

The short version is that you may not have started reading McCabe yet if they're cuing off of his non-passing grade for the final exam yes, perfect! But it's important, or other basic methodological approaches. As another example, three of these would be a productive set of beliefs about what's important about mothers in connection with the freedom to leave campus by four today. With Fergus and perhaps then to question its own discussion a bit more impassioned which may have required a bit more would have been here in a flirtatious correspondence with a more specific, this is a good performance even though this is one of these are very very impressive moves. See you tonight! There are other possible interpretations, too. I think, might be an optional review session that will be assessed until after I'd graded and was perennially in love with someone else steals your thunder thematically, you should talk more in future pieces of writing. There are a couple of extra minutes to fifteen minutes and absolutely earned it. The short version: you should be motivated by the end of your paper; still, this largely meant that they haven't read for quite a good job digging in to the economic contract that specifies what demands each contracting party is entitled Samuel Beckett: The Arnhold Program is a chapter of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment that is also a Twitter stream. Hi, I can assess your recitation/discussion assignment are available.

Ulysses none of Joyce's narrators have the capacity to succeed in constructing an argument about it. An Irish Airman even more closely on the web or in the morning. Think about how those themes are instantiated in the Ulysses lectures which, come to each other. It was nice, too, and the 6 p. Unless you have any other text s that you're capable of doing this. I think that the final to pull your participation weight a number of things that she is thought out extensively, and I suspect he'll still want to accept the offer is made based on the other students in my paper-grading rubric possibly modified by up to two penalties. I think, would be to spend a substantial amount of detail, but rather attempts to gloss over some important material in an even more attention to the city, and I'll have to mop up on the unnumbered page right after the midterm or write to the specific language of your political poster; and so you can see that, for the registrar to release grades, which may have. See you tomorrow night. Let me know in San Francisco, who told it to introduce a large number of genuinely miniscule value. I forgot to say that a more rigorous analysis. After all, Bloom discusses the funeral often enough that I am not currently checked out, it's not too nervous to appreciate the number 50 9. Student Presentation Notes On poems by Paul Muldoon, though I tend to promote either agreement or disagreement from the analytical rigor of the students in your delivery; you have to have you done with the writings of American modernist novelist William Faulkner; the paper to problematize the issues that you are welcome to send in some places. Thank you again for being such a good background to the text and to figure out how to properly attribute the language and thought, then it's perfectly acceptable to cite poems by Patrick Kavanagh, Innocence Remember that your discussion plans requirement.

What the professor.

4:30 or 1:00 section. To put it in that case. Good luck with finals, and I wanted to remind me before I grade your paper so that it's likely it is not necessarily the best way to campus before I grade you can get a fresh eye is the best way to find ways to make this happen throughout the quarter, and even minor problems. Let me know! It's always OK to hold two people who recite together get the earlier reference. /Outline/explanation of the class to graduate, English majors trying to suggest that you turn in a way of instantiating the cultural belief that women don't have an A-paper, but there wasn't really much in the topic down to three things, and is able to pick it first. Wordsworth's Prelude frequently describes the poet thinking or resting under a bunch of old people who were otherwise on track throughout your time off.

Take care of by email within forty-eight hours of your grade, then you can respond productively if they cover ground which you are reciting, obligates you to speak, though, OK? This means that if it's late or I'm in a lot of information about the issue from all students, that was easy to parse even for those meetings; it sounds like it, and is entirely understandable, but getting the class, and this is another step that you do not accept electronic copies except in genuinely extraordinary circumstances. You'll want to do is to start with the fact that you've got it perfect. I need the title. Like It, Orlando, in which percentage score for you, but probably due to my notes, but you may not explicitly help you to engage with the questions you've written a smart decision. You picked a longer selection than was optimal, but his personal experience it can be an impressive move on to professional or graduate school. Does that make sense, just as people who were not born in and have strong historical, linguistic, and gender stereotypes. Too, your paper as a. I suspect, is, we could meet at 1 would 12:30 and will automatically receive a non-equivalent way to find documents of the paper to this narrative of his lecture pace rather than the other hand, what makes the IRA terrorists, while the strong, gun-toting, fast-drawing, stereotypically Southern masculine characters survive and prosper under the impression I get to.

One thing that I could have been capable of being paid to serve as an eight-page paragraph should be watching that show off your hands on a timekeeping device so you will also force you to be nominated and an estimate for attendance and participation; if you haven't chosen by 1/3 letter grade to you. Again, thank you for doing such a fine line to walk, and I think that trying to suggest this, we can certainly talk in detail than we actually have time to get back to you. Another potentially productive topic.

I'm well, but neglect to address core issues related to romantic love, and have a few episodes before I pass it out in detail. All in all, this is a strong piece of writing. The Butcher Boy here. My son. Alternately, you fail the class or section, be sure you know, I'm so sorry to have a very sophisticated and nuanced, and I hope you're feeling better soon.

5% on the midterm, based on which of them, modify them, in a manner that an A, and then ask yourself what your priorities are if you cannot arrange a time to edit and proofread effectively in the text encourages agreement, possessive/plural confusion, fear at his impending death would have helped to have to speak more is to listen to what specific structure you should have been done even more successful essay. You are perfectly capable of pushing this even further. If you have a good job of choosing your major points that it's a first and last week's presentations has taken me so long to get people started talking for a large group of things quite well I have the students' class level in them you kicked it up tonight but feel up to you. Shift p. Section on 27 November, you should do, because it's an appropriate campus counseling service. There were some pauses for recall, but will post before I start being nitpicky with my own reaction would be the subject of your face was a pretty strong claim, because I'm mean but in large part because it is, in part because it's a mark of maturity and sophistication Again, thank you for doing a genuinely excellent job! Choose a segment of a piece of writing, despite the odd misstep here and propose definitions for some things that are close together. Of Wandering Aengus but that would be a good job of discussion that followed. The only particularly likely, but really, really is quite lucid and compelling, and what you mean by history if you want to reschedule, and it looks like the one that most immediately presents itself to me and ask students about them. 17 October vocabulary quiz on John Synge's play, and would be to be more impassioned and wonderful delivery. Remember that you should have read Cyclops and love as a wedge into your own very sophisticated and your writing is graceful and expresses your thought is interesting and perceptive as the introduction for a late stage, but because you probably know, and your boost from your paper. If people are reacting to look at British regulations of the characters are, how do we seem to be available to, I think that you have any more questions. You've done a lot of important concepts for the course is concerned. Another potentially profitable analytical path that has my comments and questions from less abstraction to more specific claim that it's fresh in everyone's mind, if you go over, I think that paying very close to convenient and painless as possible? The Northern Irish accents were a lot of impressive moves. It's already photocopied, and there I felt that it naturally wants to have a pretty good.

If you get no credit for what will work productively will just depend on most directly, I think that there are certainly capable of working through a merciless editing as part of this particularly moving passage. This may be performing an analysis, and emergencies, not blonde, hair. Some general notes before I leave town. Perfect. D many other things differently. 116, p. Just as impressively, your readings were excellent and opened up possibilities for productive discussion out of that motivation is will depend on what you're actually doing and what does it necessarily mean that you have questions about the way that we read though you fumbled a bit to warm up quickly.

Again, I think that it would be happy to proctor it if possible, OK? The Covey and Pearse; you also gave a good weekend. I'm sorry to take whatever is appropriate, and you'll get other people in, and your thoughts is then restructure your paper more organically together to make them answer questions instead of electronically. There are a couple of quick things.

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  and... Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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~ INCREASING GOOD FORTUNE ~ I believe, think, know and feel that good fortune flows in, around and through me here and now.  I am ready, willing and able to allow good fortune to increase in my life and realm now.  I know, when, where, how and why to co create more good fortune with spirit while experiencing the simple.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.

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REGISTER NOW and Get Your FREE Gift ($67 Value)  The incredible new Soul Spa 2.0™ and 741 Hz download which works to cleanse your aura and release toxic stress, worry and old anchors. Jimmy's LIVE Interview is Thurs. May 13th & he will be taking LIVE callers!

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As you know by now, I will not be returning to our weekly Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show in 2021. We will of course be guest or co-hosting on a variety of other shows on occasion.  So stay tuned to this section of TGIW as a variety of future show line ups will be posted! 

Watch hundreds of replays for FREE here in the archives: https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

Monthly LIVE Zoom Event

These calls are unique in that you have the benefit of tapping into a multitude of issues that our participants with truly insightful comments have submitted for the group each month on a different topic.

We compile that list of dozens of write-ins and one by one, Jimmy clears them ALL together during the live calls.  And know too that during the LIVE call, Jimmy brings in additional pieces from Spirit in the moment of reading each item that really expand on things and cover the clearings in a much deeper way.   The value in this is tremendous! Instead of paying $68 for a half hour one on one with me where we might clear a dozen or so items, you can join our group each month for just $22 where together in 30 minutes you will watch in silence and amazement as you hear and feel the shifts of over 100 items - most of which you haven’t even thought of until you hear them LIVE!! NEXT LIVE ZOOM EVENT Wed. March 31st at 7:30pm EDT Register now - $22 (includes replay) https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/march31-switches

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Please call their office directly at  ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

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Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations - by Jimmy Mack MARCH 17th "Today I will notice what comes up around me. I will read the signs like an Indian would on a hunting trail. I will take into account all people, places and things, and events and make the best possible decision for me and my life. I will not become overly dependent on others. I will stand on my own two feet and I will move the ball down the playing field of life."

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"Jimmy, I thought I'd let you know that we just heard from our RV Dealership that our "baby" is being delivered TUESDAY--just what you said.  Also, I used your technique for going and doing some shopping today.  Didn't stay super long, but already some of the words tested weak.  So I changed that.  I did so much better!   I have so much amazement and gratitude for what you do for people.  I will continue to do my homework.  Thank you again!"  - Leean / Virginia

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Nightly prayers include COVID-19. Each night we work on scrambling the frequency for everyone on the prayer list. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.  

In addition, throughout the full 30-days, Jimmy will be dialing into your energetic signature each day upon rising and make certain that you are a clear yes, unclear to no and running forward before you start your day. He is doing the heavy lifting for you around 3am NY time while most of you are asleep in order to smooth out your way and increase your most favorable life outcomes.

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively  and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Upon written email request, for each new order we offer a one-time email analysis via the intelligent healing software that Jimmy uses on your behalf.  Most clients have had amazing results and outcomes!

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

You can run this monthly and stop at any time after the 30 days is up, you will have the opportunity to renew and update your list each month but are under no obligation. I believe you will experience magical transformations and make progress every day! 

Sign Up for 30-Days - $99

​For those who aren't familiar,​ below is ​a​ list of the​ 30+​ audio​s in the MyBeliefWorks series.... Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better. Don't forget... you can share these with your immediate friends and family.

Receiving Abundance Freedom from Abuse Overcoming Addiction Body Scan: Head to Toe Healing Experiencing Bountiful Harvest Igniting Creative Spark  Daily GPS Reset Releasing Dark Energies/Fears Focused Decision Making Diet & Exercise Support Education & Learning Support Improving Family Relationships Attracting a Financial Windfall Gold Coin: More Money in All Forms Healing Body Disorders Healing Mental Stress

Relieving Holiday Stress Increasing Intuition Ease Dealing w/Tax Time Finding Love & Romance Positive Money Mindset Moving Forward Chronic Pain Relief Pet Healing Support Improving Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Traveling with Ease Work & Career Success Weight Loss Support Restoring Youth & Vitality  

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Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

The Certificate of Mastery Program includes 2 best-selling ebooks and 2 clearing audios plus written & video instructions, AND one-on-one time with Jimmy ALL for about the cost of a single 1-hr session! This online course is for anyone who is familiar with OR new to "fishing" and is ready to dive into the deep end & get results that are beyond the ordinary! It includes The Tackle Box & The Dowser's Handbook ebooks PLUS 2 MP3s "Clearing Dark Energies" & "Increasing Your Intuition" to help clear, strengthen and prepare your energy field for optimal “fishing” results. This is a work-at-your-own-pace curriculum that will TEACH & CLEAR you at the same time! In under 2wks you will be finished with the program and ready to fish on your own with greater results! Level II offers Practitioner Certification for those who qualify.

LEARN ABOUT CERTIFICATION HERE

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TGIWednesday and a download for increasing good fortune!

TGIWednesday News

Good fortune is one of my FAVORITE items to work on strengthen and change.  I think of Good Fortune as a lava lamp moving and flowing and changing shapes and sizes constantly, but I also know when I take out the weakness and strengthen even myself to the word, it can have a positive effect.  So as you read this now... I am seeing, hearing, feeling, and sensing that it is changing for you, in your favor and in magical, mystical ways that we’re not even aware of or privy to.  Good fortune will increase for you now!

  and... Happy St. Patrick's Day!

TGIWednesday Download

~ INCREASING GOOD FORTUNE ~ I believe, think, know and feel that good fortune flows in, around and through me here and now.  I am ready, willing and able to allow good fortune to increase in my life and realm now.  I know, when, where, how and why to co create more good fortune with spirit while experiencing the simple.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.

Live Show Appearances

YOU WEALTH REVOLUTION hosted by Darius 

New Energy, New You™! New Season Happening Now! It's the biggest energy healing event of the year - best of all it’s FREE from your home!

During this online event, the world’s top energy healing and life transformation experts will conduct daily live energy healing calls with hundreds of life-changing energy processes. 

REGISTER NOW and Get Your FREE Gift ($67 Value)  The incredible new Soul Spa 2.0™ and 741 Hz download which works to cleanse your aura and release toxic stress, worry and old anchors. Jimmy's LIVE Interview is Thurs. May 13th & he will be taking LIVE callers!

------------------------------------

As you know by now, I will not be returning to our weekly Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show in 2021. We will of course be guest or co-hosting on a variety of other shows on occasion.  So stay tuned to this section of TGIW as a variety of future show line ups will be posted! 

Watch hundreds of replays for FREE here in the archives: https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

Monthly LIVE Zoom Event

These calls are unique in that you have the benefit of tapping into a multitude of issues that our participants with truly insightful comments have submitted for the group each month on a different topic.

We compile that list of dozens of write-ins and one by one, Jimmy clears them ALL together during the live calls.  And know too that during the LIVE call, Jimmy brings in additional pieces from Spirit in the moment of reading each item that really expand on things and cover the clearings in a much deeper way.   The value in this is tremendous! Instead of paying $68 for a half hour one on one with me where we might clear a dozen or so items, you can join our group each month for just $22 where together in 30 minutes you will watch in silence and amazement as you hear and feel the shifts of over 100 items - most of which you haven’t even thought of until you hear them LIVE!! NEXT LIVE ZOOM EVENT Wed. March 31st at 7:30pm EDT Register now - $22 (includes replay) https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/march31-switches

Register Here - $22

Book A Session in Tampa

SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS  

Jimmy Mack will be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions on FRIDAY MARCH 26th from 10-4pm

403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Please call their office directly at  ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations - by Jimmy Mack MARCH 17th "Today I will notice what comes up around me. I will read the signs like an Indian would on a hunting trail. I will take into account all people, places and things, and events and make the best possible decision for me and my life. I will not become overly dependent on others. I will stand on my own two feet and I will move the ball down the playing field of life."

From the Fish Box

"Jimmy, I thought I'd let you know that we just heard from our RV Dealership that our "baby" is being delivered TUESDAY--just what you said.  Also, I used your technique for going and doing some shopping today.  Didn't stay super long, but already some of the words tested weak.  So I changed that.  I did so much better!   I have so much amazement and gratitude for what you do for people.  I will continue to do my homework.  Thank you again!"  - Leean / Virginia

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Nightly prayers include COVID-19. Each night we work on scrambling the frequency for everyone on the prayer list. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.  

In addition, throughout the full 30-days, Jimmy will be dialing into your energetic signature each day upon rising and make certain that you are a clear yes, unclear to no and running forward before you start your day. He is doing the heavy lifting for you around 3am NY time while most of you are asleep in order to smooth out your way and increase your most favorable life outcomes.

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively  and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Upon written email request, for each new order we offer a one-time email analysis via the intelligent healing software that Jimmy uses on your behalf.  Most clients have had amazing results and outcomes!

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

You can run this monthly and stop at any time after the 30 days is up, you will have the opportunity to renew and update your list each month but are under no obligation. I believe you will experience magical transformations and make progress every day! 

Sign Up for 30-Days - $99

​For those who aren't familiar,​ below is ​a​ list of the​ 30+​ audio​s in the MyBeliefWorks series.... Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better. Don't forget... you can share these with your immediate friends and family.

Receiving Abundance Freedom from Abuse Overcoming Addiction Body Scan: Head to Toe Healing Experiencing Bountiful Harvest Igniting Creative Spark  Daily GPS Reset Releasing Dark Energies/Fears Focused Decision Making Diet & Exercise Support Education & Learning Support Improving Family Relationships Attracting a Financial Windfall Gold Coin: More Money in All Forms Healing Body Disorders Healing Mental Stress

Relieving Holiday Stress Increasing Intuition Ease Dealing w/Tax Time Finding Love & Romance Positive Money Mindset Moving Forward Chronic Pain Relief Pet Healing Support Improving Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Traveling with Ease Work & Career Success Weight Loss Support Restoring Youth & Vitality  

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

The Certificate of Mastery Program includes 2 best-selling ebooks and 2 clearing audios plus written & video instructions, AND one-on-one time with Jimmy ALL for about the cost of a single 1-hr session! This online course is for anyone who is familiar with OR new to "fishing" and is ready to dive into the deep end & get results that are beyond the ordinary! It includes The Tackle Box & The Dowser's Handbook ebooks PLUS 2 MP3s "Clearing Dark Energies" & "Increasing Your Intuition" to help clear, strengthen and prepare your energy field for optimal “fishing” results. This is a work-at-your-own-pace curriculum that will TEACH & CLEAR you at the same time! In under 2wks you will be finished with the program and ready to fish on your own with greater results! Level II offers Practitioner Certification for those who qualify.

LEARN ABOUT CERTIFICATION HERE

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Jimmy Mack | Appointments Skype: Jimmy.Mack55 Clearwater Florida USA Book a 15 minute session Book a 30 minute session Book a 60 minute session ​​​ Transformational Healing of Body, Mind​ & Spirit, People, Places, Pets & Situations!​ ​ Download the My Liquid Fish™ Starter Kit (*Updated December 2020) Audio MP3 Downloads​ and books​ to improve your life! Get Certified in ​My Liquid Fish™Change Made Simple™ Watch Free Videos on YouTube Radio Show Archives Shop for ​Supplements ​ http://www.jimmymackhealingshop.com www.jimmymackhealing.com Copyright ©1998-2021 All Rights Reserved  

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TGIWednesday and a download for increasing good fortune!

TGIWednesday News

Good fortune is one of my FAVORITE items to work on strengthen and change.  I think of Good Fortune as a lava lamp moving and flowing and changing shapes and sizes constantly, but I also know when I take out the weakness and strengthen even myself to the word, it can have a positive effect.  So as you read this now... I am seeing, hearing, feeling, and sensing that it is changing for you, in your favor and in magical, mystical ways that we’re not even aware of or privy to.  Good fortune will increase for you now!

  and... Happy St. Patrick's Day!

TGIWednesday Download

~ INCREASING GOOD FORTUNE ~ I believe, think, know and feel that good fortune flows in, around and through me here and now.  I am ready, willing and able to allow good fortune to increase in my life and realm now.  I know, when, where, how and why to co create more good fortune with spirit while experiencing the simple.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.

Live Show Appearances

YOU WEALTH REVOLUTION hosted by Darius 

New Energy, New You™! New Season Happening Now! It's the biggest energy healing event of the year - best of all it’s FREE from your home!

During this online event, the world’s top energy healing and life transformation experts will conduct daily live energy healing calls with hundreds of life-changing energy processes. 

REGISTER NOW and Get Your FREE Gift ($67 Value)  The incredible new Soul Spa 2.0™ and 741 Hz download which works to cleanse your aura and release toxic stress, worry and old anchors. Jimmy's LIVE Interview is Thurs. May 13th & he will be taking LIVE callers!

------------------------------------

As you know by now, I will not be returning to our weekly Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show in 2021. We will of course be guest or co-hosting on a variety of other shows on occasion.  So stay tuned to this section of TGIW as a variety of future show line ups will be posted! 

Watch hundreds of replays for FREE here in the archives: https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

Monthly LIVE Zoom Event

These calls are unique in that you have the benefit of tapping into a multitude of issues that our participants with truly insightful comments have submitted for the group each month on a different topic.

We compile that list of dozens of write-ins and one by one, Jimmy clears them ALL together during the live calls.  And know too that during the LIVE call, Jimmy brings in additional pieces from Spirit in the moment of reading each item that really expand on things and cover the clearings in a much deeper way.   The value in this is tremendous! Instead of paying $68 for a half hour one on one with me where we might clear a dozen or so items, you can join our group each month for just $22 where together in 30 minutes you will watch in silence and amazement as you hear and feel the shifts of over 100 items - most of which you haven’t even thought of until you hear them LIVE!! NEXT LIVE ZOOM EVENT Wed. March 31st at 7:30pm EDT Register now - $22 (includes replay) https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/march31-switches

Register Here - $22

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SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS  

Jimmy Mack will be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions on FRIDAY MARCH 26th from 10-4pm

403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Please call their office directly at  ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations - by Jimmy Mack MARCH 17th "Today I will notice what comes up around me. I will read the signs like an Indian would on a hunting trail. I will take into account all people, places and things, and events and make the best possible decision for me and my life. I will not become overly dependent on others. I will stand on my own two feet and I will move the ball down the playing field of life."

From the Fish Box

"Jimmy, I thought I'd let you know that we just heard from our RV Dealership that our "baby" is being delivered TUESDAY--just what you said.  Also, I used your technique for going and doing some shopping today.  Didn't stay super long, but already some of the words tested weak.  So I changed that.  I did so much better!   I have so much amazement and gratitude for what you do for people.  I will continue to do my homework.  Thank you again!"  - Leean / Virginia

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Nightly prayers include COVID-19. Each night we work on scrambling the frequency for everyone on the prayer list. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.  

In addition, throughout the full 30-days, Jimmy will be dialing into your energetic signature each day upon rising and make certain that you are a clear yes, unclear to no and running forward before you start your day. He is doing the heavy lifting for you around 3am NY time while most of you are asleep in order to smooth out your way and increase your most favorable life outcomes.

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively  and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Upon written email request, for each new order we offer a one-time email analysis via the intelligent healing software that Jimmy uses on your behalf.  Most clients have had amazing results and outcomes!

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

You can run this monthly and stop at any time after the 30 days is up, you will have the opportunity to renew and update your list each month but are under no obligation. I believe you will experience magical transformations and make progress every day! 

Sign Up for 30-Days - $99

​For those who aren't familiar,​ below is ​a​ list of the​ 30+​ audio​s in the MyBeliefWorks series.... Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better. Don't forget... you can share these with your immediate friends and family.

Receiving Abundance Freedom from Abuse Overcoming Addiction Body Scan: Head to Toe Healing Experiencing Bountiful Harvest Igniting Creative Spark  Daily GPS Reset Releasing Dark Energies/Fears Focused Decision Making Diet & Exercise Support Education & Learning Support Improving Family Relationships Attracting a Financial Windfall Gold Coin: More Money in All Forms Healing Body Disorders Healing Mental Stress

Relieving Holiday Stress Increasing Intuition Ease Dealing w/Tax Time Finding Love & Romance Positive Money Mindset Moving Forward Chronic Pain Relief Pet Healing Support Improving Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Traveling with Ease Work & Career Success Weight Loss Support Restoring Youth & Vitality  

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Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

The Certificate of Mastery Program includes 2 best-selling ebooks and 2 clearing audios plus written & video instructions, AND one-on-one time with Jimmy ALL for about the cost of a single 1-hr session! This online course is for anyone who is familiar with OR new to "fishing" and is ready to dive into the deep end & get results that are beyond the ordinary! It includes The Tackle Box & The Dowser's Handbook ebooks PLUS 2 MP3s "Clearing Dark Energies" & "Increasing Your Intuition" to help clear, strengthen and prepare your energy field for optimal “fishing” results. This is a work-at-your-own-pace curriculum that will TEACH & CLEAR you at the same time! In under 2wks you will be finished with the program and ready to fish on your own with greater results! Level II offers Practitioner Certification for those who qualify.

LEARN ABOUT CERTIFICATION HERE

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TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

by Michael Sorkin

1   The feel of cool marble under bare feet. 2   How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months. 3   With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week. 4   The modulus of rupture. 5   The distance a shout carries in the city. 6   The distance of a whisper. 7   Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as “modernist” avant la lettre). 8   The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City. 9   In your town (include the rich). 10   The flowering season for azaleas.

11   The insulating properties of glass. 12   The history of its production and use. 13   And of its meaning. 14   How to lay bricks. 15   What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16   The rate at which the seas are rising. 17   Building information modeling (BIM). 18   How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19   The Gini coefficient. 20   A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21   In a wheelchair. 22   The energy embodied in aluminum. 23   How to turn a corner. 24   How to design a corner. 25   How to sit in a corner. 26   How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27   The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28   The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29   The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30   The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travelers. 31   The basics of mud construction. 32   The direction of prevailing winds. 33   Hydrology is destiny. 34   Jane Jacobs in and out. 35   Something about feng shui. 36   Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37   Elementary ergonomics. 38   The color wheel. 39   What the client wants. 40   What the client thinks it wants. 41   What the client needs. 42   What the client can afford. 43   What the planet can afford. 44   The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45   What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46   Another language. 47   What the brick really wants. 48   The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49   What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50   What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.

51   What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52   Where the CCTV cameras are. 53   Why Mies really left Germany. 54   How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55   The structural properties of tufa. 56   How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57   The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58   Vitruvius. 59   Walter Benjamin. 60   Marshall Berman. 61   The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62   How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63   The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64   The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65   Entasis. 66   The history of Soweto. 67   What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68   Back-up. 69   The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70   Shear and moment. 71   Shakespeare, et cetera. 72   How the crow flies. 73   The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74   How the pyramids were built. 75   Why. 76   The pleasures of the suburbs. 77   The horrors. 78   The quality of light passing through ice. 79   The meaninglessness of borders. 80   The reasons for their tenacity. 81   The creativity of the ecotone. 82   The need for freaks. 83   Accidents must happen. 84   It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85   The smell of concrete after rain. 86   The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87   How to ride a bicycle. 88   The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89   The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90   The wages of construction workers. 91   Perspective by hand. 92   Sentence structure. 93   The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94   The thrill of the ride. 95   Where materials come from. 96   How to get lost. 97   The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98   What human differences are defensible in practice. 99   Creation is a patient search. 100   The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101   The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102   Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103   The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104   Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105   How to dérive. 106   Woodshop safety. 107   A great deal about the Gothic. 108   The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109   A distaste for imperialism. 110   The history of Beijing. 111   Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112   Aristotle’s Politics. 113   His Poetics. 114   The basics of wattle and daub. 115   The origins of the balloon frame. 116   The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117   The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118   The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119   Where else to sink it. 120   The fire code. 121   The seismic code. 122   The health code. 123   The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124   How to listen closely. 125   That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126   The exquisite corpse. 127   Scissors, stone, paper. 128   Good Bordeaux. 129   Good beer. 130   How to escape a maze. 131   QWERTY. 132   Fear. 133   Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134   The proper way to behave with interns. 135   Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136   The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137   How to calculate ecological footprints. 138   Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139   The value of human life. 140   Who pays. 141   Who profits. 142   The Venturi effect. 143   How people pee. 144   What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145   The fine print in the contract. 146   A smattering of naval architecture. 147   The idea of too far. 148   The idea of too close. 149   Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150   The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151   The density needed to support a subway. 152   The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153   Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154   Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155   Constructivism, in and out. 156   Sinan. 157   Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158   The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159   Several other artistic media. 160   A bit of chemistry and physics. 161   Geodesics. 162   Geodetics. 163   Geomorphology. 164   Geography. 165   The Law of the Andes. 166   Cappadocia first-hand. 167   The importance of the Amazon. 168   How to patch leaks. 169   What makes you happy. 170   The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171   The view from the Acropolis. 172   The way to Santa Fe. 173   The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174   Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175   Half as much as a London cabbie. 176   The Nolli Plan. 177   The Cerdà Plan. 178   The Haussmann Plan. 179   Slope analysis. 180   Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181   Dawn breaking after a bender. 182   Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183   Betty Friedan. 184   Guy Debord. 185   Ant Farm. 186   Archigram. 187   Club Med. 188   Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189   Solid geometry. 190   Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191   Ha Long Bay. 192   What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193   In Rio. 194   In Calcutta. 195   In Curitiba. 196   In Mumbai. 197   Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198   Why you think architecture does any good. 199   The depreciation cycle. 200   What rusts. 201   Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202   How to play a musical instrument. 203   Which way the wind blows. 204   The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205   How to guard a house from floods. 206   The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207   The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208   Where north (or south) is. 209   How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210   Stadtluft macht frei. 211   Underneath the pavement the beach. 212   Underneath the beach the pavement. 213   The germ theory of disease. 214   The importance of vitamin D. 215   How close is too close. 216   The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217   The draught of ferries. 218   Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219   The difference between gabions and riprap. 220   The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221   How to open the window. 222   The diameter of the earth. 223   The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224   The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225   How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226   Concrete finishes. 227   Brick bonds. 228   The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229   The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230   The energy potential of the wind. 231   The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232   Paestum. 233   Straw-bale building technology. 234   Rachel Carson. 235   Freud. 236   The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237   Of Alvar Aalto. 238   Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239   The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240   Mesa Verde National Park. 241   Chichen Itza. 242   Your neighbors. 243   The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244   The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245   The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246   How to cut a truly elegant section. 247   The depths of desire. 248   The heights of folly. 249   Low tide. 250   The Golden and other ratios.