One problem with writing about something you know a lot about is that you know a lot about it. With this Information Needs Paper, I keep having to pause in my editing and consider what terms I need to define and what I can assume are common knowledge. Does everyone know what a 'zine is, or am I just a huge fandom dork? We all played "Hunt the ( Read more... )

I'm going to be very busy until next Tuesday afternoon, at which point I will become decidedly less busy; one of my classes will be over and another will be safely past the midterm. So as I spend my weekend frantically finishing up my papers and trying to concentrate on all the Foundations material I've been blowing off, I can at least look forward ( Read more... )

For my Access to Information class, I have to pick a group of some description and write a paper identifying and evaluating ten sources of information for its members. Being an opportunistic geek, I've chosen as my group fans of interactive fiction. I mean, I've already got at least ten IF websites bookmarked, and it took me all of fifteen minutes ( Read more... )

My supervisor called my school today asking for my vacation schedule over Golden Week. I told the teacher manning the phone that I didn't have one yet, seeing as my (limited) travel plans are currently on the unset side of gelatinous. Now I think I'm expected to call and give her a day-by-day breakdown of what I'll be doing, which is a) kind of ( Read more... )

I had a good Thursday ( Read more... )