Its barely June, and I am sitting in studio already, taking advantage of the air conditioning. Why? because its 97 degrees outside, and my apartment doesn't have a/c. While I get ample cross-breeze at home, that just doesn't cut it when the temperature gets into the 90s. I used my studio in this way last summer, but that didn't start until mid to late August, and then only in the evenings after work. To have it get this hot, this early, is unusual. Cross your fingers for rain!

Otherwise, I am enjoying spending my summer here in the Prov. I have a huge pile of books waiting for me to read, and for the first time in my life I am in a reading club! We're meeting every three weeks during the summer, and have a great list of both design-related reading as well as fun stuff. Here's what's on the schedule so far:

Air Guitar // Dave Hickey
A Box of Matches // Nicholson Baker
Looking Closer, Volume 5 // Beirut, Drenttel, Heller
At The Same Time (Essays & Speeches) // Susan Sontag
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing that One Sees // Weschler
Learning from Las Vegas // Venturi, Scott, Brown
Within The Context of No Context // George W.S. Trow
Shaping Things // Bruce Sterling
Invisible Cities // Calvino
The Crying of Lot 49 // Thomas Pynchon

We probably won't get through all of them, but its nice to have them collected for those little snippets of free time. You know, during thesis year. Ha. :)