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  1. Ice on the pond in Mississippi. 19 degrees on travel day, an energetic kind of cold--clear, cleansing, as long as the heaters are working.
  2. Interviewed yesterday by film crew working on a documentary based on Katherine Stockett's book, The Help.
  3. Working in Mississippi, connected to Gotham, then fat raindrops remind me to slow down, think in 3/4 time, speak to people, feel this place.
  4. Log structures return to the earth, leaving only asparagus sprouting annually in their wake--a living memorial to earlier lives spent there.
  5. Still buzzing from seeing Avatar in 3-D, which changed the way we view films. How, we wonder, might it affect our views of architecture?
  6. In the post-holiday quiet zone. 38 degrees. Squirrel perched and munching nearby, finches hopping on the sunny, empty branches of the pecan.
  7. up at 330 for early flight-surreal, free-floating time of day.
  8. Headed to Mississippi, where it's 60 degrees at high noon.
  9. 6, only glimmers of Manhattan through the snow haze, then at 7, presto, it had blown clear, with lowering clouds. Now sun on the snow-white.
  10. the winter storm is headed to the East Coast, just in time to hunker down, order in groceries, and watch the arriving snowfall.
  11. Round two of the Record Houses judging. And from the level of invention and excellence, you'd never know the economy had been in trouble.
  12. Reviewing Record Houses with staff/jury today, and great houses from all over the world.
  13. Blowing rain and a toy store so packed you couldn't see the toys!
  14. Headed to Times Square with Moss for Ripley's Believe It or Not, a burger, and people, people, people. Skating in Bryant Park? We'll see.
  15. The Cirque turned this adult into a child again followed by a dollop of Chinatown. New York still delights, when we let it.
  16. at Cirque du Soleil in Madison Square Garden waiting for curtain.
  17. Moderated panel at Woodrow Wilson Institute in DC on government building in 21st century. Government billions get architects' attention.
  18. AIA Inaugural of George Miller at National Portrait Gallery court, a wave of a space topped by Foster's aerie-a roof that rolls overhead.
  19. Staying at the Monaco, my favorite DC hotel, where the walls are solid and the ceilings are 13 feet tall.
  20. Headed to DC for a couple of days' activities with the AIA--got the tuxedo brushed off! And the word is Peter Bohlin got the Gold Medal.