Stephen, etc.: Archive

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My Conversation with the Visa Representative

Visa: Where are you right now?
Me: Denmark.
Visa: So you are still in the U.S.?
Me: No.... I'm in Europe.
Visa: Oh. So Denmark is part of the UK?
Me: No.... It's in Scandinavia.
Visa: ...
Me: Denmark is north of Germany and south of Norway.
Visa: Right.

Dec 18th

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Sonnet 47

Five of us from the office, as part of our Hanukkah dinner, wrote letters to each other. None of us are Jewish, by the way. We picked names from a hat, and I got Ingrid - Norwegian, model building master, spiritual office aunt, and the only one in the office with a dark, mysterious alter-ego. This poem is basically all inside jokes, but I am proud of it, and I’m glad I had the chance to put...

Dec 13th

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Dec 9th

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Still Breathing, Still in Copenhagen

I have, once again, failed to update this blog. I figure that’s a good sign, that my life has been interesting and busy enough that I forget to document it, to process it. Quite simply, I love my life in Copenhagen. I love the friends I have made. I love my neighborhood. I love how comfortable I feel here. Looking ahead, I can already tell that I will return to Austin a different person....

Dec 8th

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Dec 7th

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“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

– From The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Nov 12th

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Architecture Family

I’m realizing, more now than ever before, how small the architecture community is. How interconnected. How closed. How similar we are to family. This past week, especially, has highlighted this in two ways. The first, the most important, the one that assures me that everything will be okay despite it all, relates to the death of my classmate. His loss, in so many ways, felt like a loss to...

Nov 11th

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Adam

Early Sunday morning, while walking home, my classmate was killed by a drunk driver. Hit-and-run. As I am writing this, my friends, his friends, are gathering to memorialize his life, to remember him together, to mourn together, to support each other, together. I cannot be there. Truthfully, I am not sure why I am writing this. I am not sure what it will accomplish. I am even not sure what this...

Nov 8th

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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...”

– Sylvia Plath (via atomos) I’ve read somewhere that the current generation of 20-somethings, my generation, it taking longer to grow up than any past generation. We are indecisive, probably because we have more options than ever. I used to not be like this. I had a plan for life. This was when...

Nov 4th

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Nov 3rd

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“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an...”

– Katsuhika Hokusai (Thanks to theshipthatflew) There are moments when I feel my ignorance, my lack of understanding for how the world is pieced together. In design, in architecture, I have yet to fully grasp the feel of space. What, exactly, makes a space feel the way it does. Its shape, its...

Nov 2nd

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“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”

– Paul Auster (via mythologyofblue) I have traveled a lot in the last three years. Lived in Rome, Kyoto, Tokyo, Paris, and currently Copenhagen. By now, I know that these travels are not about seeing the world anymore. As this quote suggests, it is about finding the perfect city, a future home, a...

Nov 1st

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Oct 28th

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Oct 27th

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Oct 26th

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“Some Advice. Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the...”

– From The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Oct 12th

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Vi guider: Få masser af D-vitamin nu -... →

The underlying urgency of this article - read: get your vitamin D NOW! - is funny to me. This past weekend was treated as the final chance for real sun in the city. From now on, prepare for the long, harsh, winter ahead. Anyway, coming from Texas, I’ve never had to consider how I was going to get my vitamin D. I mean, if anything, I normally get too much. But here in Denmark, that will have...

Oct 5th

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Københavnske hipstere kaster sig over engelsk... →

It’s nice to know that even the Danes consider bike polo too-cool-for-school. Copenhagen hipsters, always one step ahead of their American counterparts. (And in many ways, more deserving of their title.)

Oct 4th

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Danmark har den første sommerdag i oktober... →

This past weekend - past week, actually - it has been warm and sunny, a far cry from the temperamental, rain-filled summer that I have experienced for the past three months. It was amazing. And, of course, the Danes made a big deal out of it. But, as it turns out, it was a big deal, being the warmest start to October ever!

Oct 3rd

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dailymeh: The Ig Nobel prize is a parody prize, but a subtle one, honoring “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” It’s not exactly a prize for bad science: it’s more about science that’s funny, unusual or trivial in some entertaining way. Like magnetically levitating frogs or quantifying exactly how much really having to pee affects concentration. (Last year, the...

Oct 2nd

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"Lost" Writer Interview →

Abrams liked the idea, and also had another: “‘There should be a hatch on this island! They spend the entire season trying to get it open. And there should be these other people on the island,’” Lindelof recalled Abrams saying. “And I’m like, ”We can call them The Others.’ And he’s like, ‘They should hear this noise out there in the...

Oct 1st

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“Maybe this is how enlightenment happens. Not with a thunderclap or a bolt of...”

– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (via thoughtsdetained)

Sep 26th

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Because Tumblr stupidly does not allow you to respond to replies. ethung replied to your photo: Pondering Sculpture, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen Did you take this photo? Yeah, this is my photo. The girl’s friend had just moved on to the next room when I entered. Perfect timing, I guess. sergioaz replied to your photo: Pondering Sculpture, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen Giacometti? Thank...

Sep 25th

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