Posted in Uncategorized, tagged su on February 29, 2008 | 21 Comments »
For the class I am taking this semester we have to start a blog. My first half of the semester is to blog about Youtube as a possible educational tool.
But my latest blog post bridges the gap between this blog and that one.
I figure that I’ll keep that blog as a professional blog and if nothing else, it is giving me experience with the WordPress format.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged su on October 29, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Scott Nicholson – Gaming Symposium 07
Watch the newly tenured SU professor, Scott Nicholson rock the 2007 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium.
You can clearly see why I came back from my two weeks in Syracuse taking classes with him excited to be a librarian.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged links, su on February 8, 2007 | 6 Comments »
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I think everything is laid out so that tomorrow I will just have to sit down and write what needs writing despite a little trouble accessing the course reserves. Just can’t get any luck with course reserves lately, can I?
Once everything is written and handed in, it will just be me and Zorro for the weekend. I think I am going to spend the weekend with the computer off, just me and the pooch. Rob and Tom are visiting; I’ll finally get to meet Tom’s long-time boyfriend, which is nice, its been a while now.
I’m tired and pollen is beginning to take its shots at me.
It will be nice to be done with this semester.
Soon.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1q, su on April 25, 2006 | 24 Comments »
Yesterday, the 24th, I turned 31 years old. Wow.
My mom called me at 4 to let me know the exact moment I was born.
Janaki asked me what I wanted to do and I really only wanted to spend a quiet evening with her and eat pizza. I haven’t eaten pizza for the past six months, since the whole gluten thing. There is a gluten-free bakery not too far from here and I had heard their GF pizza crust was pretty rockin’ but they have stopped production of it while they update their kitchen. So, the lady suggested Amy’s Gluten-Free Pizza, which was prefect.
We threw some mushrooms, garlic and onions up on that disk and ate. We re-watched our favorite Invader Zim episodes, some Deadwood and the Jet Li film, Unleashed (verdict: eh).
I have to do some online stuff for school, take a final and re-write a paper from earlier in the semester. The big paper is done. Lilly and I hauled ass and get it done this weekend. She’s the keenest partner ever and is surely the reason I got to enjoy my birthday rather than write a paper alone during it.
Once school is done I will make the little adjustments needs to the dictionary and get behind the wheel of 1st Quest, so that I have a solid playtest document for Dexcon.
Tomorrow I’ll work out with Aaron in the morning and then get together with the fellas in the afternoon to discuss what me, Jeff and Jim will do with our summer’s gaming, since Kolja and Aaron are outta town for the season.
All in all, a very nice day, a nice quiet birthday spent with two pizzas, some gingerale and a neat lady.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged su on April 9, 2006 | 12 Comments »
I am taking my grad school classes in a distance learning format and I’m not sure it is for me. This isn’t to say that grad school isn’t for me (my mother just stopped breathing for a sentence) but this distance learning isn’t working.
The literature review that my partner and I handed in, Lilly’s portion of the work was impressive and mine was entirely lacking.
Something needs to change and it needs to change dramatically.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged su on March 15, 2006 | 4 Comments »
One of the members of my former group has defected from said group to join me in working on the project. So, four become one now become two.
Grad School is ridiculous.
Lilly lives in Ithaca, so we’ll be able to meet face to face and discuss things, which is really nice. I miss that kind of academic interaction with this distance learning hoo-doo.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged su, work-out on March 10, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I have gotten an astonishing amount of work and research done in the past 24 hours. If all goes well with my Borrow Direct and Inter-Library Loan requests, next week should be really fruitful. Janaki gave me a lead on a really exciting type of research that will be nifty to explore and write about, making the paper interesting for me.
I’d write what I am writing about but some rat bastard in me knows that this journal is linked on my school web site and I want to keep shit close to my vest now. I’m not sure I like that.
Cutting out the just sitting and surfing RPG boards out of my day has opened up an astonishing and slightly embarassing amount of time from my day.
This morning Aaron and I met for our second work out and it was really cool. We are easing into it. Easing into it aside, my chest is rather sore from our Wednesday work-out and I bet my arms are going to be rather tweaked from today.
I got some yogurt, which is gluten-free for some fast protien. So far the dairy hasn’t been bothering me like it did when I was all glutened up.
Tonight is our Friday night 1st Quest game, which I am really looking forward to.
And it is Bret’s birthday. Happy birthday, Bret!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged su on February 21, 2006 | 26 Comments »
I’m listening to Aaron’s Le Tigre CD’s, which unequivocally rock, particularly the first album while working on this damned school paper.
I have one more thing that I have to do while here and then I’m outta here.
My butt is numb and my posture is shit.
I should have done more research, had more resources.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged link, su on February 7, 2006 | 8 Comments »
“Firefighters and police are trained to deal with the stresses that their jobs undoubtedly entail; librarians and school teachers are less likely to have these support systems in place.
“In addition, stress impacts different personalities in different ways, and different personalities may be drawn to different roles.”
Fire fighters have an axe, cops have billy clubs, I think this psychological stress comes from the lack of any weaponry in the profession. I vote for a gladius as a badge of office. They are snazzy, useful and easy to wear on the hip.
