Conflicted

[likethebeer]

It's such a weird thing not giving tours anymore. Here it is, a Saturday. And it's my Saturday. I've not had a situation like that in about 10 years, maybe? At least not through the summer (or May-October). There is a disadvantage to working M-F. You can't get doctor's appointments on Saturdays, the paint store closes at noon instead of 5pm, the malls are more crowded. But if I work Sunday-Thursday, that automatically means I basically have to give tours.

I love giving tours. I hate being a tour guide. It's been 10 years. That's a long time. I've gone from talking, talking, talking to people non-stop at least 4 hours a week, to sometimes working by myself all day, being in my brain.

Of cousre, I got to send off something to the Wisconsin Historical Society Website, I sent pix off to Architectural Record, just had my article come out (I must work on more things--when did Taliesin get its front door, and what does that mean??? Is the Hillside Drafting STudio literally as well as figuratively built like a Gothic cathedral, and what does that mean?). Have to practice my conference presentation. So there are compensations, definitely.

Am I a geek who doesn't make any sense to anyone else? Do I understand FLLW and Taliesin to such an extent that I can't explain it? I don't know.

Comments

a geek who doesn't make any sense to anyone else?

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

many of us are geeks of one form or another, we wallow in our special brand of geekness up to our knees,.. the nice thing is sharing bits of our geekness with others, and getting in return,and we use these bits to build a foundation to keep us from sinking completely out of the picture

Re: a geek who doesn't make any sense to anyone else?

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

That's one of the advantages of giving tours. If I go off on Frank Lloyd Wright's interpretation of Victor Hugo's statement that in the Middle Ages, "Anyone who was born a poet became an architect," and how this all relates to the statue he co-designed in 1902-4 called Flower in the Crannied Wall (Tennyson's poem is on the back), and how this further relates to the small being part of the large, and the underlying geometry of nature expressing the body of god (for, verily, it was said by Mr. Wright: "Nature is not the will of God. Nature is the greatest body of God that we will ever see).... Well, people on tour get pretty glazed looking pretty quick.

I'd better stop complaining or my good friend, WI-C will berate me for finally getting what I want to do. Plus, I still have to work around the garage! :)

I still have to work around the garage!

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

hahaha,.. yes the ever present TMI and cleaning,..:D
most people want to just see the famous house,..o.o