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Cause and effect

They are not even creeping, they are all up for full frontal attach. I'm talking about the cockroaches, they are everywhere. No mater how much I try to keep the place clean, they just won't let it be. Running up the walls like it's the most natural thing on earth.

My flatmate has decided to gett the exterminator over here, cause the problem isn't only the cockroaches, but also The Rat... Yes, we have a rat. It's living in the so called living room, which now is the storage room for tenants who left their stuff here when they moved. 

I'm trying to explain to him that killing the rat won't get rid of the problem, just temporarily get rid of the effect of the real problem, aka, the mess.

I hope with all my heart that he will understand my point and do something about it, but I'm not to sure his laziness will allow him to do so.

That brings me back to the question that I've been writing about earlier, What is causing this lack of respect towards others we can see on the street, and in our homes (no mater if we are willing to admit it or not, or if we even realize it)?

The people living here before don't seem to care about all the things they have left behind, but they care enough to get to much of a bad concision to throw it out themselves, but they can easily pass it on to us. And now that has left us with not only a room we can't use, but also with cockroaches and rat(s?). Thank you! You are all to kind? 

Is it this way of thinking of what is easy for us in the moment, and not in the long run, that is leading us into trouble?

Personal opinion: Yes!

How can we change it? A little at a time, step by step? Or, drastically, like here at my place, by calling the exterminator, and take away everything that doesn't belong to us? 

If we take to drastic measures, we have to realize that the problem that was once ours will become some else, and that it will have it's own effect no mater if that effect is effecting us or not.

Always this -Cause and Effect-, but it is one of those things we can't get away from. The only thing we can do is sort it as well as we can, and hope that by doing that the impact will lessen little by little.

And we have to keep in mind that by doing nothing we at some point will loose control, and that will only cause more of an ripple then if we do something about it now!

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 Definition of HOME

According to Dictionary.com

[hohm] Show IPA noun, adjective, adverb, verb, homed, hom·ing.

–noun

1. a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.

2. the place in which one's domestic affections are centered.

3. an institution for the homeless, sick, etc.: a nursing home.

4. the dwelling place or retreat of an animal.

5. the place or region where something is native or most common.

6. any place of residence or refuge: a heavenly home.

7. a person's native place or own country.

8.(in games) the destination or goal.

9. a principal base of operations or activities: The new stadium will be the home of the local football team.

10. Baseball . home plate.

11. Lacrosse . one of three attack positions nearest the opposing goal.

–adjective

12. of, pertaining to, or connected with one's home or country; domestic: home products.

13. principal or main: the corporation's home office.

14. reaching the mark aimed at: a home thrust.

15. Sports . played in a ball park, arena, or the like, that is or is assumed to be the center of operations of a team: The pitcher didn't lose a single home game all season. Compare away ( def. 11 ) .

–adverb

16. to, toward, or at home: to go home.

17. deep; to the heart: The truth of the accusation struck home.

18. to the mark or point aimed at: He drove the point home.

19. Nautical .

  a. into the position desired; perfectly or to the greatest possible extent: sails sheeted home.

  b. in the proper, stowed position: The anchor is home.

  c. toward its vessel: to bring the anchor home.

–verb (used without object)

20. to go or return home.

21. (of guided missiles, aircraft, etc.) to proceed, esp. under control of an automatic aiming mechanism, toward a specified target, as a plane, missile, or location (often fol. by in on ): The missile homed in on the target.

22. to navigate toward a point by means of coordinates other than those given by altitudes.

23. to have a home where specified; reside.

–verb (used with object)

24. to bring or send home.

25. to provide with a home.

26. to direct, esp. under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc.

—Idioms

27. at home,

   a. in one's own house or place of residence.

   b. in one's own town or country.

   c. prepared or willing to receive social visits: Tell him I'm not at home. We are always at home to her.

   d. in a situation familiar to one; at ease: She has a way of making everyone feel at home.

   e.  well-informed; proficient: to be at home in the classics.

   f. played in one's hometown or on one's own grounds: The Yankees played two games at home and one away.

28. bring home to, to make evident to; clarify or emphasize for: The irrevocability of her decision was brought home to her.

29. home and dry, British Informal . having safely achieved one's goal.

30. home free,

   a. assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we'll be home free.

   b. certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free.

31. write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing to write home about. His cooking is really something to write home about.

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Origin:
bef. 900;  ME hom,  OE hām  (n. and adv.); c. D heim,  ON heimr,  Dan hjem,  Sw hem,  G Heim  home, Goth haims  village; akin to haunt

—Related forms

min·i·home, noun

—Can be confused:  home, house (see synonym note at house).


—Synonyms
1.  abode, dwelling, habitation; domicile. See house. 2.  hearth, fireside. 3.  asylum.

According to Wikipedia.org

A home is a place of residence or refuge.^[1] It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either living in the wild or in a domesticated environment. As an alternative to the definition of "home" as a physical locale, home may be perceived to have no physical definition--instead, home may relate instead to a mental or emotional state of refuge or comfort.

There are certain cultures in which members lack permanent homes, such as with nomadic people.

Contents [hide] 1 Terminology 2 Psychological impact 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Terminology

Many wetlands are home to birds such as these Northern Shoveler ducks.

A houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington

The word "home" can be used for various types of residential community institutions in which people can live, such as nursing homes, group homes (orphanages for children, retirement homes for seniors, prisons for criminals, treatment facilities, etc.), and foster homes.

In computer terminology, a 'home' may refer to a starting view that branches off into other tasks, e.g. a homepage or a desktop. Many such home pages on the internet start with introductory information, recent news or events, and links to subpages. "Home" may also refer to a home directory which contains the personal files of a given user of the computer system.

[edit] Psychological impact

Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of habit, the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior, emotions, and overall mental health.^{[citation needed]}

Some people may become homesick when they leave their home over an extended period of time. Sometimes homesickness can cause a person to feel actual symptoms of illness.

It has been argued that psychologically "The strongest sense of home commonly coincides geographically with a dwelling. Usually the sense of home attenuates as one moves away from that point, but it does not do so in a fixed or regular way."^[2] Furthermore, places like homes can trigger self-reflection, thoughts about who one is or used to be or who one might become. These types of reflections also occur in places where there is a collective historical identity, such as Gettysburg or Ground Zero.^[3]

In the past the mother was the person who ran the household. The house was a place for women's work more than anywhere else. However, in the modern sense, these duties are now shared between mother and father. In Western countries, the home has become a place for more equality in duties, the roles are shared and the burden of maintaining the household is a shared family responsibility.^[4]

According to Me

It's hard to define. I can feel as much at home in someone else house, as in my own, as in a cafe, as on a boat. For me home has to do with where a person feels comfortable to be him/her self. That often has to do with where one is at, but it can just as much have to do with who one is with. 

So in certain ways my home is where my friends are my family are, disregarding the space we are in. Or, just myself, if I am alone.

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Just put it somewhere

There are days, when you loose faith in humanity, then there are days when things just seems right. Like today, I saw a business woman settling down on a bench, with her take away coffee in one hand, her briefcase beside her, to feed the pidgins. She looked so happy, in her own calm little bubble while the rest of the us rushed her by on our way to work. She managed to find her own space in a place where people almost stepped on her toes to get where they had to go.  I’ve never seen her before, even though I pass through that park almost every day (all depending on if I’m in the mood for the shortest way, or in the mood to explore the longer routs).
Of course I wonder how she lives, and how she behaves when she steps out of her own space and starts interacting with the crowd of the rush hour, but at the same time, I didn’t care. All i knew was that she looked calm and was smiling, while others looked stressed with cold faces, and that in turn made me smile.

I should have stopped and taken a picture, but I didn’t want to disturb her.

Anyway, after writing -3- I couldn’t stop thinking about the importance of our home. I guess that we used to have so few things that the building containing it was our main priority, while now we have so many things that we have to get bigger homes just to fitt it all.
Storage, it’s all about storage. Even though a thing is broken, there seems to be a lot of people who have trouble throwing it out, so it just gets put on a shelf or pressed into the garage or cellar.

When it comes to homes, I’m not saying that a happy home can’t be made of a badly planed space, or that a well planed space automatically leads to a well functioning family. What I am saying is that the possibility of getting a more social, and therefor happier family members, is bigger if we start planning our homes after what we actually need, and not what we automatically want.

We don’t need 1 bathroom per person, we don’t need 20m2 for our bedrooms, we don’t need specific play rooms for the kids. Of course, some people find it rather nice to be able to open up a door to a room full with toys and let their kids in there to play, but do they really need so many toys that they have to have special storage containers and shelf systems to be able to fit them all?

This fascination with toys (read “things), do definitely don’t stop when we turn “mature”. There is a saying for it -The toys just get bigger and more expensive the older the boys get- and it’s very true indeed. At the moment I’m enjoying my dear Mac, and the guy on the street is entering his pimped out ride. But the fact is that as fast as the next generation comes, we will probably start striving for it, and it starts with kids and their barbies and dinosaurs. 

So yet again, if we design homes with less abundant storage, will that help us stay away from getting so much junk, and make us take conscious decisions of what should stay and what should go, what to get, and what we can do without?

Chapeter 3

I’VE BEEN A BAD BAD GIRL

Unfortunately not in the amusing sense of the word, more i the way that gives me a bad concision for not getting enough important things done, such as applying for scholarships and getting things in order for my semester in Milan

Saturday 2.oct.2010

I know I know I know, I should not bitch about uni, but that is just what I am about to do!
You see, one of the teachers that have to agree to my so-called “Plan of study” regarding my 2 years at the master, is disagreeing with it. And without her consent I can’t go on exchange to Milan.
I see where she’s coming from, but at the same time I have no intention what so ever to go back to Aarhus before the start of my 5th year. Not only am I looking forward to study at Politecnico, I’m also looking forward to studying the way they study and learn la lingua di architecture in italiano (aka, the Italian architecture language). Not as much when it comes to their way of designing, then I see the Scandinavian language as being more suitable for me, but when it comes to the actual spoken language. I want to learn how to properly speak, understand and explain architecture in Italian.
She on the other hand wants me to go back to AAA and get tools for my 5th and final year.
My question is, if I haven’t manage to get most of those tools during my bachelor, how do they suppose that I get it in 1 semester?

I learn so much each day I’m working at Terroir, everything from basic things such as thoughts about layout and design process to problem solving at construction sights (my ears are as big as Dumbo’s when I’m sitting in the office, working on models and colourpaletts). I wish that I could continue to work as an intern, and it being a part of my education, for 1 entire year. Just think about how much I would learn, compare to 1 year in a studio at AAA!
It might be absolutely wonderful, almost like an evening at the castle (Cinderella)!

Otherwise not to much going on. Seeing that i live in a suburb, 1 hours train ride from the heart of Sydney, I’m not as social as I normally am. I’m not going to cafe’s everyday, even though I have found a new favorite one, Gertrude’s and Alice in Bondi beach. The only thing about Bondi that I like so far. Otherwise it’s not my type of place.

They are in to body’s, running around in tight tang tops (or nothing on top at all), flexing their muscles and getting the “perfect” tan, I’m in to design and get rather revolted by their horrendous spandex fashion. So the wonderful little book cafe became my magical fantasy cave, full with treasures and tea (you get it in a teapot, with the most beautiful little mismatching cup and saucer) while there.

Haven’t been out partying for real yet. 1 month in this country and not one single night with mayhem, not even a little. Think we are going in to the city for some concert tonight tough. Looking forward to that. Hopefully we won’t be home until the early hours of the Sunday morning... Have to dance, or I’ll loose my head, my pretty little (or Big, depending who you ask) head!