This has been one crazy week! I have been going non-stop with a full schedule of classes, and finals in my SCAD classes online. It's been CRAZY. I have also entered my final projects for my three week silkscreen class, which I will pass along pictures of work as soon as everything is done. I also found out that my abstract got selected for SESAH, which will be in October. Tennessee here I come. I have been going crazy, and I promise after next week I'll get back on a regular blog schedule. Below is Woodburn Hall-WVU's flagship. The topic of my next architectural investigation. I think there's something fishy with this building, but I'll have to discuss it more later. It's HOT here, and I'm back in WV, it almost makes me glad I'm not in Savannah...almost.

This week I had to make a speech at my local Toastmasters meeting. I used the opportunity to talk about my intern experience last summer with Preservation Piedmont and about the research project I did with the Rosenwald schools. While I move into a new apartment on Saturday, I am putting the final touches on the Ardsley/Chatham cresent paper. I've taken this opportunity to completely redraft parts of it, and make some major changes. I've learned that I work better under pressure, and I think it will be evident with this draft of the paper. Also my heart goes out to the family and friends of the UVA student who was recently murdered. I feel like this case will create a new campaign to combat Drugs and Drinking in colleges. It will be interesting to watch the case unfold from a local perspective, in C-Ville which is a city that has a strong communal feeling.

Yesterday I sent in my abstracts and proposals for this year's SESAH(Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians) annual convention. My topics centered around Rosenwald schools(the paper I wrote this summer) and Eleanor, W.V. I look forward to hearing whether they are selected. If so, I would be presenting the paper at the Annual Convention, which is being held this year in Chattanooga, TN. Until then I am enjoying the short time of calmness before my summer classes begin on top of the other two classes I have now. LSAT study continues as well as the shadowing I've been doing with a local judge. I've also been taking a few photos of buildings around WestVirginia. I think it's helped me to better examine some of the buildings I see everyday and take for granted. Time has began to become extremely valuable again. More soon-