the difference is indifference

A building outside the boardroom of my office in Toronto designed by Mies van de rohe. this is the view from where i work.



a real building in prague designed by toronto born gehry. inspired by ginger and astaire dancing. love it.

a building at MIT designed by gehry.

another office shot from the boardroom of my building.

office workers like to drink booze on st. patrick's day. an excuse to drink? or a slap in the face to both irish culture, and catholicism?

i'm going with the excuse to drink after a week of making a fortune. considering that they started drinking bailey's at 7am, switched to beer at noon, and i left at three.. well, i hope none of you bought a million or two dollars worth of stock yesterday. actually, i hope most of you could afford to do so.

i have two shirts that i wear on 'casual friday'. yesterday, the shirt i wore had a hint of green in it. someone pointed out to me that i was 'in the spirit'. i didn't realize at first, until i realized that they were all wearing green. i guess that's what you do. they were really into it. the younger ones were going to stand in lines at bars after work. i didn't think there would be lines at bars after work. they are optimists, and i love them for it.

although a brit walked into the room and he wasn't wearing green so someone asked him why he wasn't, and he said "why would i? that would be like celebrating the american war of independence in britain", we lost that war too.

i wanted to point out it's a) the celebration of a man who was born a brit, but enslaved by other brits and sold to ireland 1600 years ago, but technically still a brit and b) a general not-really-anything-to-do-with-ireland excuse to get drunk (see above). dick.

so in his honour, i'm going to go watch v for vendetta today. go guy fawkes, go!

i also thought it was strange that he said "lost that one too" in reference to ireland, but i chalked it up to him getting drunk to slap catholicism on the ass and ireland in the face (see above).