Intern Architects in Hell

Il Pelicano | 2006-01-24

On Mortality

'How are you doing this week?' 'I'm totally slammed. I've got a spec to write for a duplex that starts site work this week, drawings to prepare for a land use amendment meeting, a stack of shop drawings as thick as my head to review, a community open house to conduct, half a dozen consultants to hound, and a development permit to extract from the purgatory of City Hall. Later today I have to come up with townhouse plans and elevations for a client meeting tomorrow morning, and I still have to squeeze in two site visits this afternoon. Meanwhile, our office administrator keeps hounding me for my timesheets, and I truly believe I need a haircut in the worst way. I'm not sure how I'm going to survive this week.' 'We call that Death by Architecture. It's quite honourable.' 'You're very comforting.' 'Like hara-kiri, with carpal tunnel.'

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