[us] 02: day eighty five // eleven.

today was once again an interesting day. megan was working in the dean's office, and anna/cody/josh got to site super early to do some roofing stuff, so i was by myself/working with random people today. i started out the day doing some minor things by myself, until somebody arrived who didn't have a job/partner. first, i put up some furring strips. not exciting. then i put in some top plates on 2 walls in the kitchen, so that later i could plumb & straighten those walls. it was challenging, mostly because all the sprinkler pipes & metal furring strips for the drywall are quite in the way, and i had limited room to maneuver around up there. but i made it work. also, it was a THOUSAND degrees in the kitchen area, because both fans were in other areas. which sucked. but anyway, once i got that done, elise had arrived on site, and i recruited her to help me. we made the wall as plumb as we could, but it was built kind of crazily, so it's not exactly perfect. but it will work. then we set a string up there to make sure the 2 walls were in line. they were slightly off, but if we made them straight, they would no longer be plumb. so we consulted adrian about this situation, and he was leaning towards keeping them plumb but slightly off, but we waited to talk to robert about what he wanted to do before we made anything permanent.

after this, elise & i joined allison & shannon with installing blocking between the rafters of the green roof. it was a SUPER pain in the ass because there was barely any room to reach up in there to get the blocking in. literally, i had 11 inches between the rafters, plus once again the sprinklers & furring strips were in the way. apparently, this ideally should have been done MONTHS ago, before we even put sheathing on the roof. oh well. we worked on this for a bit until lunch. also at this point, robert arrived from teaching his class, & megan too. megan & i had many questions for him about specifying faucets & things, so we asked him those. then we were sent on a mission to get low-VOC primer & cement for the plumbers. so we ventured all around greensboro for 2 hours in search of this. when we got back, and it was 3.30 and time to go!