~Friday~ Last weekend, when I had dinner with my friends Jeff and Ed before seeing American Utopias with them, Jeff was telling me about a play that, as the Professor of the Practice of Theater Studies at Duke University, he is having his senior students explore for their capstone course. The play is called Picnic, … Read more
~Monday~ Tonight's class was fun and interesting, and shortly before it, we received our grade on our first journal submission, for which I received an "A." I noted on Facebook that if I were taking this class in a degree program, meaning that this grade would count toward my GPA, it would have actually lowered … Read more
~Saturday~ Tonight I saw Mike Daisey perform his one-man show (which all of his shows are) called American Utopias, which I found extremely compelling in spite of my skepticism before going. My skepticism—and angst, truth be told—was due to Daisey’s debacle of a year or so ago with regards to his show called The Agony … Read more
~Sunday~— I spent some time this weekend in the coveted (pun intended) “Quadrant II,” wherein lies things that are important, but not urgent, which of course makes them great candidates for procrastination. Here’s a reminder of, or if you’re not familiar with it at all, Stephen Covey‘s Time Management Matrix, with some examples of things … Read more
~Thursday~ I’ve always wanted to submit a postcard to PostSecret, more for the challenge of getting it published than getting some daunting deep secret off my chest. The other day, I was cleaning up my “Friends” list on Facebook—because, really, who needs 350 friends—and in the course of doing that, I noticed that someone had … Read more
~Friday~ Through some form of social media recently, I was pointed to an article called, 5 Critically-Acclaimed Movies That Bombed At The Box Office: The Artist, Man on the Moon, The Shawshank Redemption, Office Space, Blade Runner, and The Bottom Line. Of those, I’ve only seen The Shawshank Redemption, and I’ve read the book as … Read more
~Thursday~ As part of my Games & Learning Design class, 20% of our grade comes from our Game Journal, in which we are required to make six entries. Here's how it's described in the syllabus: Game Journal … 20% You are required to play games this semester—the more, the better, and as often as possible. … Read more
~Monday~ “Back to school.” Well that seems a little like hyperbole; I’m “back to class,” at least. I’m taking EAC 795 Games & Learning Design, one night a week, on Mondays, from 4:30-7:15. Since graduating with my Master’s degree in Technical Communication in December of 2007, I’ve taken one other class, which was ENG 583a: … Read more
~Monday~ Go to November's Walking Challenge 2012 Entry | See All Walking Challenge 2012 Entries And so it ends. After watching this video on January 2, 2012: I took on the challenge of making myself walk for at least 30 minutes every day for the rest of the year. I was successful on 342 … Read more
~Sunday~ For serious Barbra Streisand fans—myself included—we’ve been anticipating the release of her latest movie, The Guilt Trip, for quite a while now. It was released on December 19, 2012, and I saw it today. I was (pleasantly) surprised at how much I liked it. Which was a lot. An inventor (Rogen) invites his mother … Read more