grad school

making order out of tangles

In grad school, personal on 13 April 2010 with no comments

Nothing is more apt to illustrate my day than the action of warping the loom for a new weaving.
I started with one big mess of string and it is starting to come together into something neater. With luck it might even be beautiful. Here’s hoping the rest of the semester plays out accordingly.

sunday treats & new dorks

In business, grad school, san francisco, video on 11 April 2010 with no comments

After four consecutive days of homework, punctuated by yoga (or was it vice versa?), I got to treat myself a bit today, in between more homework of course.
First, a post-yoga/pre-brunch cocktail at Serpentine. I was really hoping the restaurant’s name, white walls & bricks meant the owners were Jefferson appreciators but apparently the restaurant is [...]

prototyping at home

In business, design, grad school on 10 April 2010 with no comments

This is what a hot Saturday night looks like exactly 20 days before we pitch our Venture to our classmates, professors and various invited guests… (want to join?)
Big, mad love to Leah for making dinner so that Tim and I could focus on prototyping our pitch. Take note… In a pinch, the refrigerator acts as [...]

living off the mat

In grad school, personal, yoga on 9 April 2010 with no comments

Blessed with the day off from work I got to spend today being a student and inhabitant of this great city:
slept in past the alarm… ran into my Venture partner at Coffee Bar… ate a yummy lunch baking in the sun… had insightful meeting with one of our Venture professors… rode my bike through the [...]

arriving at a name

In grad school, personal on 7 April 2010 with no comments

Maybe it was the weather, or maybe the fact that I was on my bike, or maybe it was leaving work just a bit early to treat myself to dinner and a latte… but finally after months of struggling to find an identity for our little fledgling of a venture we have a domain and [...]

a year’s worth of (designmba) work…

In business, grad school on 30 September 2009 tagged designmba with 1 comment

School is back and session and I am once again head down, hidden away from friends, family and leisure. I am pulling back the curtain just for a moment to share with you the exciting launch of a little documentation project I’ve been working on. Over the summer a few of us from the first [...]