Slowly buy Surely....

With every passing week I'm growing more and more comfortable with being home (the weather sure has helped). The office in Boston is great. I'm enjoying my time there and everyone is very nice and very helpful in getting me orientated. Presently the office is mainly focused on Baltimore, we were getting the design development drawing set as well as an associated presentation out last week. I was working on a couple interior perspective shots for materials and such as well as classroom perspectives.
These are really quite basic, going into sketchup and creating the space quickly and then using photoshop to place some materials and things. Initially I was finding it a bit difficultot get into these. Its similar to the perspectives I struggled with for the competitions but now they want to have a bit more precision as well as realistic representations of color and materials. So there is a bit more than just leaving it sketchy. But eventually I got the hang of it and I'm getting better (or I would like to think so) with the whole thing.
At the end of the week I started working on a seating plan for a large auditorium in the building. Trying to figure out how many seats we can fit in and what the spacing will be depending on the types of seats used.
Over the weekend I relaxed, which was great. No running around. I did go to Dover/Portsmouth for Saturday which was nice. Went out to drinks with Maura (who I hadn't really seen in a very, very long time) as well as going to my sister's swim meet at phillips exeter. I poked around the library there in hopes of getting in but I think they were on spring break so no dice. But now that I'm in the area permanently perhaps I'll make a swing by when it will be open. It would be nice to get inside and appreciate the space.
I also found a place in Boston, which is a great load off my mind. Its a nice place in Cambridge that I'm sharing with 3 other roommates. It has off-street parking, short bike commute into the office and is located close to the metro. I think it will be a nice place to get used to Boston City living. I'm looking forward to getting my 4 hours a day I'm loosing to my commute. I think I'll start running again once I get situated there, it will be good to pick up and lord knows I need to get back in shape... But its getting late, so off to bed for me.