Good news #1: I've got a roommate lined up for next year!
Good news #2: The focus group part of the focus group assignment is done! It's been... a learning experience.
Good news #3:
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A couple of weeks ago, for one of my classes we had to create personas related to our research, which meant that we were to go out and conduct live interviews with people and compile their data into 2-3 demographic profiles of who might be interested in our projects.

Here's the thing. My project is on the effects of technology on homiletics-- ( Read more... )

This is where I dropped the kitties. How spifftacular.

I'm still considering starting that nonprofit. The more I think about it and mention it to people, the more encouragement I get. I think I'm actually going to even go ahead and talk to the Small Business and Nonprofit Law Clinic at some point during the next week or so--the first meeting, at ( Read more... )

My reading for Tuesday's class on Interactive Narrative presented this lovely little gem:

Your [interactive] designs should aspire to the ideal of metaphorically having sex with your users.

That's just... great, especially since the author spent the beginning of the chapter ripping a new one into some other writer's definition of interactive ( Read more... )

...okay, Facebook fails at copy/paste, but that's beside the point.

I've made a Flash site for a project that's due, heh, tomorrow. It's still not done, but at least the basic wireframe for all but the Research and the "about" page (that's not even created, but is incredibly low priority) is set--and therefore up for user-testing. So... anyone who ( Read more... )

Every week in our department meeting at work I give a 10-minute talk on Web 2.0 to my coworkers. Last week, the subject of choice was blogs (which tangentally led to at least one coworker creating a facebook account to e-stalk her children). During this discussion, while we were exploring MySpace, we saw a link for some music video with the word " ( Read more... )

Happy belated Earth Day.Also, I am apparently incapable of doing any writing before approximately 11:00 p.m. the night before a paper is due. Seriously. I've got a paper due at 5;00. I've been preparing for this paper since approximately the second week of class and have been doing reading on it since the fourth. I did a conference poster (for ( Read more... )

I had to give an oral presentation in class today about some research that I haven't even finished yet (the paper's not due until Monday). The prof already emailed me with the grade and everything. Of particular interest was this note:

At times your tone bordered on sarcastic and sardonic

Holy crap. Really? I mean, it's not like that's my modus ( Read more... )

( Angst! )

The department head sent out an email today "reminding" us that the first part of our progress report was due on January 15 ( Read more... )