Hello. Not that anyone reads this page, but I've decided to change its focus to more personal-type news. My theoretical ramblings will be limited to other venues. Notes and reflections in preparation for my thesis can be found at my blog Confidence, Cohen. Media literacy related posts will go up at Project NML, as soon as I have some to post. And all other nuggets of brilliance about media will be exposed on the CMS Journal website, which should be up and running by the end of the semester.
The big news this semester is that I've joined the aforementioned New Media Literacies project. I'm really excited about it, and not just because I've won funding (well, some funding). In short, the purpose of the project is to develop curricula to give kids practical and theoretical tools for navigating a media rich world. Right now I'm editing an interview with sci-fi author/blogger/copyright activist Cory Doctorow that will go into our "Exemplar Library," an archive of many such interviews with media producers. It's so fun, I don't want to work on any of my other homework!
I realized this morning that the editing project, combined with the cold, the long weekend, and the fact that Becky is out of town, have pushed me into hibernation mode. Video editing is a real time-suck, when I get in the zone I hardly realize when 8 hours have passed. With Becky gone, it makes no sense to eat out or prepare complicated meals, so I've been subsisting on soup and left-overs. And, if I'm not going out, why shave or change out of my pajamas? So, what's the result: low activity (just shuffling around the apartment), low calorie consumption (can't be bothered to cook), low levels of natural light, high physical comfort. So now all I want to do is sleep. Got 9 hours last night but still feel groggy. This would be great if I had nothing to do this winter but survive. Not gonna be so good when I have to go to school on Wednesday.
Monday, February 20, 2006
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