Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Discount Carpeting
My roommate is an interior design major and she gets all sorts of deals everywhere because she buys so much stuff at hobby lobby and other craft stores. She even ordered us discount carpet tiles for our kitchen the other day because with winter here snow is being tracked all over our house and the carpet helps to keep it in one place (and it is really cute too).
It is really cool to see all of the stuff Kayla uses for her projects. She gets free and discounted stuff from all over and she always has carpet squares or counter top samples sitting around in the living room or on the floor in her room. She even looks around to see what other places have stuff, like the other day she looked online to see what discount carpets UK and other places had to offer and she actually found a really cool sample that was from Spain that she ordered.
Sometimes I get jealous of her major. It feels like the rest of my roommates and I are out at the library constantly or always taking or studying for tests and she is just playing around with play houses and carpet squares. I'm sure it is hard work and I don't mean to make it seem silly, but I just can't imagine what it would be like to have just projects all of the time (and fun ones too). I hate studying and she never has to take tests, she just has to do designs that she has weeks to do and finish and then she doesn't even have to present them, just bring them in and hand them to the teacher.
Of course I am sure it isn't all fun and games. She is often up really late working on tiny things like gluing or cutting out tiny microscopic squares from a piece of cardboard or something weird like that. And she is always measuring things to make them exact and using the computer to make blueprints. So I know that it obviously is a lot of work, but it just seems like a lot more of fun work then studying for a genetics test or writing a paper and doing a presentation on RNA like I had to do this semester. I like my major, and I would never change it, but sometimes I wish I picked one that didn't require so much work.
Mike @ 9:05 AM