burnaby t wallace

Jeremy and Shaula got married this past weekend. It was a very nice ceremony. Since I was part of the wedding party, we got to walk around and take pictures all over Balboa Park on Saturday. My feet definitely felt it on Sunday. That also was the day that my best man taught us how to dance.

Now it’s my turn. It’s crunch time, and I am getting married in mere weeks.

The heart is beating fast and I am getting all sorts of anxious.

And to add, I just sipped some cappuccino and reading a live stream from the WWDC 2007 keynote.

How much can my little heart take?

I sort of feel loopy. I think. Not too sure. A little bit sleepy and a little bit overcaffeinated. What is going on?

Well, my knee has been swollen for the past few days. So that means I’ve been taking Infomethacine, Allopurinol, and Naproxen. All together. Today my allergies were elevated. That means I took some triamcinolone acetonide (Nasacort). And I took some Metabolife (for that extra energy/hunger suppresion). And I had less than 6 hours of sleep last night. Coming from a day where I slept near 12 hours.

I am jittery. I am operating like I want to energetically do things–but with my eyes closed, if you can understand what I mean. Sheesh.

Anyone who has known me for a while has known that I used to be an architectural major. This was before going into the more lucrative, yet creatively lacking computer science major. Further still, my favorite architect is I.M. Pei. However, I have noticed a change in my architectural leanings for the past few years. I have moved into simpler, cleaner, more functional designs (sort of if web 2.0 were to become a building).

Interestingly enough, my leanings are towards a design whose time has past–a design popular in the last mid-century. Think very square, very windowed, old 1970’s movies, James-Bondish, very old-school Volvo.

Enter Richard Neutra. He was an Austrian designer born in the late 1800s. He worked for a brief moment with Frank Lloyd Wright before ultimately opening his own studio in Glendale. His studio is currently for sale, going at over $3 million.

It actually looks like an upscale Ikea design. I’m OK with that.

Since the accident, I have been a little bit slow to update this here blog. It’s not that things are slow for me–rather, quite the opposite.

Let’s see.

I have been working around the house–new fence, no more popcorn ceiling, some new shelves. Then there’s the electrical. I have had my house completely rewired (not a cheap thing at all). I have traveled to New Orleans. Came up with a new curriculum for teaching on the east coast later this month. All the packing up and unpacking to get things out of the way. Plus, I had designed the wedding invitations and everything else that goes with it. Then we had to print those and package them all up. Those have been a couple of 3AM sleeping times–on work nights, no less. We’ll put up the wedding invitations on the wedding blog soon. I also helped out in the purchase of a new vehicle. Tons of research, tons of test driving. Lots of sleep-lacking nights.

So it’s been a very productive time. I hope to get back into the swing of things soon.

Yippee. Download now.