Me too!

Hello, hearters of old shit! I can't believe the summer is almost over! My knee is doing really well- and aside from lots of PT this summer, I've been plugging away at FRES- Penn's Real Estate Development Office. And by that, I mean, sitting in my cubicle eating candy. They just installed an ice cream vending machine which spells trouble for me.

Like Haha, I was on the news.

Like Fon, I've had many Marky Mark sightings. I got to go behind the scenes of his movie because they were shooting on Penn's property!

Also, I just got a job! I'm going to be working for Wood Partners, a multi-family developer. They're in DC and it seems like a fun firm. I'll be moving in a few weeks. And while I will not being doing anything Preservation related, hopefully this will get my foot in the door. (The plan is that after I gain some experience and some $$, I can then go to work on developing adaptive reuse projects...)

OK, that's it for me. I hope all is well with everybody and keep the updates coming!

Mandy

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WHAT!?

My miserable, penniless, useless, homeless, unemployed summer has come to an abrupt and shocking end.  I got a strange and unreal-sounding lead last week.  After a 12-hour freakout of hesitation, I responded.  And, less than a week later, I got the call.  When can you come?  Sunday?  Start Monday?  Great.  Get to New Orleans.  Send the receipts.

Interview?  What interview?  Job description?  Que?

So, I'm off.  To where exactly, I don't know.  For who, precisely, I don't know.  For how long?  No idea.  Doing what?  Something vague about Section 106 and FEMA.  

New fucking Orleans?  Monday?  Are you kidding me?  No, seriously.

Oh my darling wonderpups!

So much news, so little time. I would like, foremost, to assure you that old shit is indeed alive and well in Jolly Old. After a rigourous (note the use of u, I am soooo British) three weeks of touring the man0r houses of England, I have returned, relatively unscathed, to the motherland. Brief synapses of Attingham: wake up, eat crappy food, lecture, look at a ridiculous amount of old stuff, eat mayonaise, more old shit, lecture, dinner of gross crap, two more lectures, drink a large amount of bad wine. Repeat. Don't get me wrong it was great, but eventually you start scanning 16th century interiors for somewhere you could possible rest your weary rump without breaking anything. After a little longer, your feet don't want to walk through one more Ruskinian landscape and you hope and pray that the old antiques dealer doesn't try and fall asleep on your bosom in the bus (yes, he did). But I return victorious with a great bibliography of books on every subject related to historic structures, landscapes and preservation (which I will share with you all as soon as it's formatted).

In other news, the house is going well. I currently have 8 trucks outside my house as they cut down deadly pine trees that threated to fall on the house. Amid a flurry of paint brushes and tools, things are starting to take shape and it is looking good. This is the ultimate cocktail/party house, so I expect to see some of your darling faces gracing my doorstep soon!

I have a baby puppy now. His name is Teddy and he's a west highland terror ... I mean terrier. He's ridiculously spunky and loves people.

So, i'm taking the RI real estate exam. My real estate agent has been trying to romance me into the company. I'd be representing the historic homes for sale and I think it would also be a good way to drum up some histopresto business.

That's it for now. I miss you all so much and love and want visitors! So come play soon!

S

GREETINGS

Hi everyone,

I am sorry I do not have very exciting news to share. I am living at home outside D.C. and working part-time at an Architectural firm while I search for full-time employment. I have been looking for jobs in D.C./ Boston/ NYC/ and Providence, RI. So if you hear of anything - let me know. And of course, If I move to a city near you and will get in touch.
I hope everyone is enjoying these last few HOT weeks of summer. I am going to be on Martha's Vineyard next week so I can't complain.
I miss everyone!

Besos,
Gabs

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HI!

visit often. post a lot. be in touch virtually so you don't feel lonesome because you're not staring at us across a table over a laptop daily...

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On Fox News and the President's House

If you heard a rumor that Mander and I were on MyFoxPhilly news this week, it's true.
There we were on federale assignment to photograph and absorb the temporary closing of the President's House and there were news cameras everywhere. Photographers elbowed us out of the way and apparently Fox did their standup with me and Mander as the backdrop. For more of the back of our heads, peep it for yourself.

The Kelly/Maiello design is not the best thing I've ever seen, but it's a starting point. Of course, they designed it without knowing what the dig would reveal, so here's to revisions!

What You've Missed in Philly

Martin Meyerson passed away this summer, as the building named for him will in the future. I ask you now to crassly place bets as to whether his passing will inspire them to name the new to-be-designed-and-someday-deemed-dreadful-by-its-ungrateful-inhabitants building in his honor AGAIN? or will Steve Wynn's money trump that? Discuss.

PlanPhilly offers a virtual tour of the Delaware waterfront developments, which is convenient for those of you who are not here to sweat it out.

Peep the Reading Railroad Viaduct at Necessity for Ruins! Some people around here think it's ripe for a redesign, a la the High Line in ye olde NYC. Now where's Kevin Bacon to stand in for Ed Norton in the inevitable publicity and advocacy role?

Rumor has it that M. Night Shayamalan is back in Philly with Marky Mark and Zooey Deschanel on a movie called The Happening, which is scheduled to begin shooting in here in August.

And in TV news, those of you transplants can be reminded of Philly in all her glory when It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes back to FX in September. I saw them shooting in my hood the other day. It's back foreal.

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