So...Close...

It's SO close to the end of the semester, and I'm having mixed emotions with that. This semester has been crazy hard for me, probably one of the hardest 4 month periods I've ever had. We had to move to a new house in the middle of the semester, which was really bad timing. Then I had to pull an all-nighter to finish one of my Studio projects, and it happened to be the night that Paxton got sick, which was hard for me to be away from him (I was at the Drafting Lab at school). Then, of course, we all got sick, and last Sunday we had to take Pax to the ER because he had a 101.1 degree fever. Being first time parents, we freaked out and took him in. They took an RSV culture and did a chest x-ray, which were all normal. So they just told us to give him Tylenol and lots of fluids. He's feeling better now, although he still has a horrible runny nose.
So the reason I'm mentioning all of this now? Well, my Studio final project is due on December 2, which is a week from tomorrow. Am I done? No. Am I even close? Not even. My final project is a full set of working construction documents drafted TO SCALE on 24"x36" vellum. Not computer drafted, mind you, - hand drafted, which means drawing the whole thing using only a pencil, straightedge, architect's scale, and a triangle. Oh, and lots and lots of erasers. So what do construction documents consist of? Page 1 is a title page. There's the floor plan, dimensioning, and electrical systems on Page 2. Page 3 is the front elevation, kitchen and bath interior elevations (8 total), and window and door schedules. Page 4 is a building section with wall detail (a cut-away of the inside of the wall), and a room finish schedule. And page 5 is a furniture plan. So if that doesn't sound fun enough, the final copies have to be professional-quality, meaning no erase marks. So that means everything is done on "trash" (basically tracing paper that comes on a 50 yd roll), perfected, then meticulously traced onto the final vellum. And tracing is no easy game - my final Page 2 took 16 hours to trace. Not draft, just trace. Which is why I'm stressed. I still have to trace my entire project, and my interior elevations and furniture plans aren't even on trash yet. Guess I should get to work, or cry, or both. For anyone that thinks interior design is just picking matching pillows like you see on HGTV, this class will change your mind!