DESTROY DESTROY

Yeah, so I just returned from pulling a ceiling down with a pretty awesome tool.  It was rather like a legionary's spear, but got wider at the tip and had a round divot at the other end.  Oh, and after we were done with the ceiling, we ripped up the floor.  That, ladies and gentlemen, is manliness.  I was, of course, doing it for work-study, but in reality it is so maddeningly fun to destroy stuff that I would have paid to rip that house apart.

In other news, I'm finally doing site visits for my internship.  A childhood spent following my dad around on building inspections came in handy the past two days.  I knew what to look for - the cornice detaching, loose shingles, holes in the windows, cracks in the foundation, water damage, anything looking out of place or crooked.  It feels really good to be out on my feet, taking pictures of things and then returning to an office to analyze them.  Whatever I end up doing for a career, it had better include time inside and time outside.

Of course, there are some downsides to every positive week.  I deleted an hour's worth of work while in the act of saving the spreadsheet.  That was about the most depressing thing of the week.  And I almost crashed a car into a line of bushes, mostly because I had a foot of dust on my glasses and was too busy yapping my jaws off.  Nonetheless, this has been a pretty awesome past few days.