Category Archives: Grad School

Normandy, France

So we arrived in Normandy on Saturday to stay in a 13 bedroom house of the coast.  The view was absolutely beautiful, but the smell left something to be desired (rotting seaweed). The day we got there we went to the store, drank some wine (I dropped one of the bottles by accident), and made...

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Navasota Randomness…

So this is my FINAL survey of small town downtowns. Thank goodness!… and I had some unusual pics from this dead town no parking sign, yet cars are parked… These next two houses were within two blocks of eachother, very mixed income neighborhoods… So glad to be done… now I’m off to finish writing my...

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Sarah Rasnick - I have to admit I didn’t get much of a chance to look at your blog until now! It is really good and I would love to know how what program you use to make your site! I love it! It is so .. you! Well I really miss you and all the girls! We really need to plan a reunion soon!

chrystalmac - The blogs are free at wordpress.com you can pick your own theme (mine is Unsleepable by Ben Gray), as well. It cost $15 a year to have your own domain name too. You and your sister-in-laws pictures are on here too. Funny, cause I sooo want to update my blog format, but maybe I’ll save money and keep it for a while :)

Brenham, Texas…

So a couple weeks ago I went to Brenham, Texas and did a similar observational survey of what attracts people to small downtown areas.  I thought I’d share my pics… Because the project is about city planning I was interested in there fancy downtown public restrooms… I only captured the boring stuff because it was...

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TIna - So was the counting of the cars/visitors an assigned task? I’m curious whether you came up w/that on your own? My current project is somewhat similar. Tomorrow i will be going out to the site to walk around and check out the area…seems like an interesting thing to add to my day..counting people/car traffic thru the area too. thanks good idea!! still so unmotivated for school…which is why i spent all day just researching from home :P
Miss you my friend!! hope your vacation is kick-ass!!

chrystalmac - Mardelle helped me come up with it ;) It is SUPER fun to watch people for two hours and do nothing. Oh, so just kidding. I think it would drive you crazy not doing anything for that long :P

And our vacation was KICK-ASS!!! I love Cali!! Now to visit Colorado and come see you. Lets hope you are there long enough for me to get the money to do so!!

Downtown Kerrville…

Last weekend we went to go visit Tor’s Nana and while I was there I did a little research for my school paper. The downtown area seemed vacant except for the restaurants and Cultural Center that had an artwork display.  My research is to find out what attracts people to small downtown areas and what...

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Janica - Gotta love the Hill Country.

Heather Alexander Beam - Kerrville is one of my favorite places of all time. I love it! Great pictures!

TIna - nice pictures! i know by now it was posted a long time ago, but i’m kinda interested to know what you came up with-as far as what attracts people to litle downtown areas. :) or what you ended up making up?? :)

Today I am…

stressed.  There is so much I need to do, but I keep getting distracted.  Counting the hours down until Tuesday morning (when the midpoint of my project is due)

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Janica - Hang in there….xoxo

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