{ It's Hard }

Bjork, "It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves."
Wise words to remember. I've been having a hard time lately, somehow this helps.

{ November: 'stache tastic! }

Don't forget to do your part this glorious month of my birth... plus it's for a good cause.

{ Vanity Fair knows Architecture }

Or they think they do... They asked 52 experts (deans of arch schools, starchitects, and architecture critics) what are some of the world's most influential buildings post 1980. The list, for a magazine with no real authority on architecture, did put together a pretty decent list. and I guess the most exciting part for me, was out of the top 21, I had visited 7. {via}  and not to go on a whole other rant, but does it bother anyone else, that Tod WIlliams and Billie Tsien are counted as one vote, while Ricardo Scofidio (from Diller Scofidio) is counted individually? The list of women voters are far and few between, and here we have some acting and voting with their male counter part... so sad.

Woman of the Year

and no it's not me. According to Glamour, Marissa Mayer is this year's Woman of the Year. Why you might ask? well it's Google. Yes, google. Seems like everyone is doin' it 7 billion times a year. and everything google has to go through the hands of Marissa Mayer.

As vice president, search and user experience (and a 10-year veteran of Google), she’s helped make the company the world’s number-one search engine, with revenues of nearly $22 billion last year. “I’ve always liked simplicity,” says Mayer, 34. “It’s hard to tell where my aesthetic ends and Google’s begins.” Almost nothing gets out the door without her approval, including innovations like Gmail and Google Earth. “It’s pretty hard to overstate her impact,” says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “She built the team that designs the products we all use.”

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