#rachelrants

[rachel-rants]

Hypocrite (poem)

I go off and preach about the importance of mental health,

but I personally don’t get help until I contemplate death.

I beat myself up over grades,

but I do nothing to stop myself from showing up late.

I say it will all be okay,

but even I know I will not change my ways.

It’s a curse, not a blessing– being so aware.

Every time I breathe, I feel like I am taking someone else’s air.

- rachelrants

[rachel-rants]

Family (poem)

How can I say I cherish my family when I rip off all the bark from our dying tree?

I say I never want children, but I would do anything to give my hypothetical offspring more than just the rotton fruit that was ever offered to me.

Broken family and broken ties.

As I grew, I learned that old blood was meant to dry.

Intentional agony and intentional lies

They tend to cut deeper when they see you are doing fine.

- rachelrants

(It’s cringe, I know. Don’t come for me)

[ssirensoundss]

Waldo, you stupid fucking evil ghost/ spirit/ demon cunt, stay the FUCK out of my dreams or I’m gonna rage. This is the fifth offense where this stupid ass evil entity has showed up in my dreams and tried to do some unholy voodoo or possession shit on me in the last year. Every few months I forget about him until he randomly pops up again and tries to paralyzed me IN MY OWN HOME and I’ve had ENOUGH. FUCK YOU WALDO MY DREAMS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A HAPPY PLACE. Anyways I think I’m going to book a witch or something to cleanse me so drop recs if you have any.

(I don’t actually know why his name is Waldo because you can’t see or hear him, but I’m pretty sure in the first or second dream I had of him I wanted to give him a goofy ah name because he was actually starting to freak me the fuck out.)

GO FOLLOW MY MAIN ACCOUNT @rachel-rants

[songbirdeverdeen]

Kid up all night coughing, my pain levels off the charts, emergency phonecalls with my bestie in the midnight hours... not feeling it today.

[remartinelli]

#RachelRant 003

Today I fantasized about winning the $1.5 Billion Powerball. I dreamt about how I could pay off my student loan, buy a house, get presents for my loved ones. How I could hire an assistant and a personal chef. Travel. Actually get to see Adele in concert. Hell. I could have a private Adele concert!

Oh man! I need to find a lawyer and an accountant. I need to make sure I find people I can trust. Who is in charge of everything Taylor Swift? I need her people stat!

Friends and family begin to come up through the woodworks. They expect me to be kind and generous, because that is how I was raised. A loved one needs money for something. They didn’t ask directly but they made it very clear that they needed help. Blasted their woes all over social media. I got the hint.

My aunt calls me up to chat and mentions, “Did you see so-and-so needs something or another? It was on the Facebook. Isn’t that so sad?” I answer yes, but I don’t do anything about it.

My family hates me. And we are Italian so we really know how to hold a grudge. They think, I was given millions for doing nothing. Why am I not being selfless? Who do I think I am?

Time goes by, six, eight months maybe. It felt like 3 years. I have no one. I am alone.

Wow! What a depressing daydream. Instead of spending $2 on a ticket, I’m going to go buy some salsa.

#RachelRant Complete

[fantasyleafe]

Things I have learned about my course managers today: 

Either they don't expect anything of us, or they can't be bothered to give us the information we need.

[scoobysnack]

I really just want to go on a date with a boy to Kennywood...

[remartinelli]

#RachelRant 002

How Rem Koolhaas ruined my life

  For those of you who have any architectural education you know who Rem Koolhaas is.  For those of you who don’t here is the quick biography courtesy of Wikipedia.

  “Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (/ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect,architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.

In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.[1] In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas)

  While he is an extremely influential man in all areas of architecture – the built environment, theory, education- I am not a fan of Rem. It’s not that I do not agree with the way he approaches design or that I don’t like his buildings, because I do. I have beef with the fact that he has ruined my architectural education.

Putting aside that his name is my initials (Rachel Elizabeth Martinelli), one of his buildings has haunted me for 4 years, the Seattle Central Library. (http://www.archdaily.com/11651/seattle-central-library-oma-lmn/)

Since 2010, every review in which I have ever participated, the Seattle Central Library has been referenced. I have had at least 3 reviews or desk critiques myself where I was told to use the library as a precedent for my project, and at least twice a semester a juror will tell one of my peers that they should look at the Seattle Central Library.

I understand that the Seattle Central Library is seen a great model of how to organize program and structure. But enough is enough! Architects everywhere, please reference a new building. The project was completed in 2004, it is time for a newer piece of architecture to be referenced to the innovative thinkers that are to be produced from architecture schools around the country.

#RachelRant Complete