It's been a while...

It's been a really long time since I've updated on here...and so many things have happened in my life.  I got back from my study abroad in Roma, worked two jobs over the summer (my usual since I'm a poor college student), and had a few mental breakdowns.  The usual [for real].  Now, I've started my final year of school [it seems so surreal to say that] and I am trying to figure out what the hell I want to do with the rest of my life.  Professionally, I'm very interested in the abandoned landscape like vacant lots in cities [which my studio is concentrating on] and forgotten rural areas...but that probably won't translate into a job, but it's nice that I'm actually learning about something that I am interested in.  Personally, I've come to the realization that I'm ready to emotionally settle down.  I don't care if my boyfriend proposes to me, but I just want him to commit himself to my by showing some type of step forward.  Hell, for all I care, he could just text me on a daily basis to see how I'm doing...but, *sigh*, that hasn't happened yet.  So, I'm super tired and doubt anyone will read this, but that's my update.  I got to get up early to do work for my classes, so hopefully I can do that still...or [probably] sleep in.  Haha.

Rethinking energy.

I am a member of the Penn State's Solar Decathlon team and I went down
to Washington DC yesterday to see the competition.  For those of you who
don't know what Solar Decathlon (or Solar D as we usually call it) is, it's a
competition between 20 universities from around the world where the students
are to create a solar-powered home.  It's judged on various levels
including market viability, architecture, and engineering (just to name a
few).  There are various constraints including the size of the site and
the "solar envelope" that surrounds the site.  The latter
element is an imaginary boundary that creates vertical limits that cannot be
breached by the house itself and the landscape elements (if any are used). 
I wanted to share some pictures of these eco-friendly homes with the xanga
world to hopefully get people thinking about changing the way we think about
our homes as well as our footprint on the earth.

Save the Boobs fun fact.