I’ve always wanted to take a picture like this. In case you didn’t notice at first, the new picture is taken from the same vantage point as the original.
My grammy, me and mom hangin’ at our house back in the day.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Texas nights
july 13, 2012
I just started summer school this week, and I feel like my awesome summer break is slowly ending… I’m taking Physics II at the ACC campus waaayy up in north Austin from 8-12, then I head way south to work until 6, then work on my online biology class in the evening. You’d think I was a science major with all this sciencey nonsense I have to take… Anyway, before school started, I was having a pretty good summer!
The most “Texas” night I’ve had in a long time :) We went swimming at the greenbelt, ate dinner at the Gristmill in Gruene, and then saw Kyle Park in New Braunfels that night. Nothing like a beautiful Texas sunset, country music, and bbq to make me realize how much I’m going to miss these things when I’m abroad!
Shelly drove back to Austin for the concert, and when we got home Michaela was also back in Austin for the weekend. Roomie reunion!!
I just started summer school this week, and I feel like my awesome summer break is slowly ending… I’m taking Physics II at the ACC campus waaayy up in north Austin from 8-12, then I head way south to work until 6, then work on my online biology class in the evening. You’d think I was a science major with all this sciencey nonsense I have to take… Anyway, before school started, I was having a pretty good summer!
The most “Texas” night I’ve had in a long time :) We went swimming at the greenbelt, ate dinner at the Gristmill in Gruene, and then saw Kyle Park in New Braunfels that night. Nothing like a beautiful Texas sunset, country music, and bbq to make me realize how much I’m going to miss these things when I’m abroad!
Shelly drove back to Austin for the concert, and when we got home Michaela was also back in Austin for the weekend. Roomie reunion!!
While Michaela was in town, we got a little group together from the tri team to go on a ride. It was a gorgeous evening and a great workout! I’m still nowhere near prepared for Triaggieland, a triathlon in College Station that I’m doing on Sunday, but it was fun to get back on my bike.
Also, I recently found out that there are two students from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (the school I’m going to in Spain) who are studying at UT this fall! We’ve been emailing back and forth, I’m excited that they’re going to be in Austin for a little while before I leave to go abroad. That way we can help each other choose classes and find decent housing!
New Office!
june 27, 2012
Schneider-Halls Design moved into a new office this weekend! It’s off of Southwest Parkway and it’s so much bigger and nicer than our old office. I felt bad for not being able to help with the move over the weekend… but I had to drive into Houston to apply for my Spanish visa! Which, surprisingly, went WAY more smoothly than I’d expected.
We discovered that the partitions between our desk spaces are at a kind of awkward height because it puts us eye-to-eye with the person who sits across from us. However, we also discovered that they are PERFECT for puppet shows…
Schneider-Halls Design moved into a new office this weekend! It’s off of Southwest Parkway and it’s so much bigger and nicer than our old office. I felt bad for not being able to help with the move over the weekend… but I had to drive into Houston to apply for my Spanish visa! Which, surprisingly, went WAY more smoothly than I’d expected.
We discovered that the partitions between our desk spaces are at a kind of awkward height because it puts us eye-to-eye with the person who sits across from us. However, we also discovered that they are PERFECT for puppet shows…
check out our beautiful new conference room^^
This is where our new reception desk will go… when it arrives!
Since I had to go to Houston anyway, I decided to make a weekend of it and stop by Galveston and The Woodlands :)
We found this cool jetty at the very end of the island…
And it was COVERED in hermit crabs!
One thing I love about visiting Galveston is getting to cook with fresh seafood. Josh and I always go get fresh fish from Katie’s Seafood Market and then try out some kind of new recipe. This week? Shrimp Ceviche! It was delicious!
Visit to Chi-town
june 18, 2012
For my 21st birthday, I asked for a plane ticket to Chicago. My friend Emily is interning there for the summer, and Josh was there for a conference with the American Medical Association, so it gave me a great excuse to tag along and visit a new city! The deep dish pizza and hot dogs were delish, and seeing several buildings that we’ve studied in my history of architecture/interior design classes was really cool. My two favs were Marina City and, of course, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House.
For my 21st birthday, I asked for a plane ticket to Chicago. My friend Emily is interning there for the summer, and Josh was there for a conference with the American Medical Association, so it gave me a great excuse to tag along and visit a new city! The deep dish pizza and hot dogs were delish, and seeing several buildings that we’ve studied in my history of architecture/interior design classes was really cool. My two favs were Marina City and, of course, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House.
Here’s where I crashed while I was there - Emily’s pretty studio apartment downtown!
A view of the exterior of her building - fun fact: it is the tallest building designed by a female architect!
Marina City, designed by Bertrand Goldberg in ‘64
While Emily was at work, I ventured around town with the med students. This is inside the glass box at the top of the Sears tower… You can’t tell from the picture, but the viewing deck juts out over the city on the 103rd floor and is entirely made of glass. And yes, I thought I was going to pass out.
Em and I finally made it to the Robie House! For you non-archies out there, this a famous house designed in the early 20th century by Frank Lloyd Wright (also known as the father of American Architecture). While all of his contemporaries were copying other cultures’ designs, FLW said, ” ‘MURICA!”, and came up with a new design language for American architecture.
Visiting the Chicago Art Institute. Name that painting!
Deep dish pizza from Lou Malnati’s. I didn’t believe Em when she said I’d be full after one piece, but she was right…
I don’t care that this piece has a real name… I refuse to call it anything but “the bean”!
Annnddd this post wouldn’t be complete without a blurry phone pic of us hanging out downtown on Friday night. It’s missing Trey-Z (the 3rd med student there with Josh), but this is our group that hung out during the trip!
Adios Austin
june 18, 2012
View of downtown Austin from the plane to Chicago. I can zoom into my apartment building in this photo!
View of downtown Austin from the plane to Chicago. I can zoom into my apartment building in this photo!
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