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Drew, Ryan, and I are brainstorming to come up with a name for my blog. This is an incredibly important point in setting up a blog and I am sure that anyone out there who keeps one, knows the feeling. At the time it reminds me of choosing an AIM screen name in high school... or naming a baby.
As I reminisce on the difficultly of the choices that beset the high school version of me and tremble at the thought of having kids, Drew asks me for the name of an architectural tool. Ryan responds, "John," starts giggling, apologizes for the quip and quickly asserts that I am the furthest thing from it. Ryan is always doing this sort of thing, making jerk comments and apologizing moments later because he is really is the furthest thing from a jerk. Drew makes those comments and does not apologize afterward because that way only his friends know he is joking and everyone else is left to question themselves while admiring his alacrity and sarcasm.
My first response to Drew, after the giggles subside, is a joke. The Parallel Rule.
The Parallel Rule was a piece of equipment off my list of essentials for M.Arch 1 students. At first glance it is a $250 stainless steel ruler. However, upon closer inspection (reading the item description from online retailers) it turns out that this contraption is far from simple and is actually a complex device that uses a pulley system to mark out parallel lines in an architectural drawing.
It is a joke suggestion because Drew and I could still not find anything to justify the price and only laughed at the esoteric product description. While I may have a remote inkling at the use of such a tool, it is just an example of one of those things I will have to figure out upon arrival.
At this point I realize it is the perfect name for my blog as it serves dual purposes.
First, it emphasizes the great unknown in my future (yes it is an expensive unknown and one that I hope to be able to use for the rest of my life) and I want this blog to capture all of the adventures, trials, humors, and moments.
Second, it emphasizes the nature of my separation from you and that while my life may be taking place in New York, and yours on the opposite side of the country, we are traveling along parallel tracks. This I would like to call, the Parallel Rule. However, it is important to note that unlike parallel lines, which go on forever without intersecting, I will be seeing you all again, it is just a matter of time.
