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今天下了情绪化的雨

這裡很久沒有下雨 這個晚上終於下出來 下雨應該是浪漫 但反而我想跟老天爺一起哭   倆年前的今天我在哭 一年前的今天我也在哭 今天又如可 只好怪我的眼窩太淺 永遠都學不到如何把眼淚隱藏 浮浮沉沉 眼淚的大海 我就快呼吸不了 我很快被淹沒了 你嘗試救我 救人,救我,救你自己 給我的救生圈 為什麼要拿走 幻像還可以過日 明天可能是天晴 雨好像停下來 可以感慨完畢

A day in Austin

Today, I walked around Austin's Warehouse District and 2nd Street District for the very first time. Maybe because it is the Labor Day weekend, it was almost like a ghost town. None the less, there were many quaint finds. This store specializes in doggie attire... Post-it art =) Old wooden tracks Some of the buildings are the decade old warehouses buildings. How valuable are historic buildings to our current living? Are we preserving them for the sake of nostalgia? Or are they just in the way of developing better money churning properties. 

A new semester

Four more years have passed since my last blog, and something happened today that has ticked me enough to write in this again... My friend Hannah and I visited the UT art museum, the Blanton Art Museum, and I am now infused with opposing emotions that I have to let it out. Legend has it that Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to build the new UT art museum back in the late 1990's. However, after they were selected, the UT Regency demanded the art museum to be more stylistically in line with the rest of the campus. As a result, Herzog said "BISAK (bye in Swedish)" and we don't have a landmark. We have a building that looks like the rest of the campus, with unadorned post-modern arches and columns and boarded up windows at the street level! At least the overhang soffit is generous and has nice wood paneling. Entering the museum, unimpressed, my mind changed quickly as we approached the central atrium with north facing sawtooth skylights, filling the space with