It Begins…
Preparation for and execution of the beginning of the semester here has rendered my blogging non-existant. There has been no shortage of work to rend my sanity in twain. Despite this, this semester seems to have a good amount of potential. The faculty seem to have taken to the new opportunities that have presented themselves from our Mac conversion. The lab itself is slowly becoming more solid technologically, and things are coming together in general. I even finagled a brand new Mac Pro (Quad Core, 8 gig ram, ridiculous amounts of hard disk space) into the new purchases, and am aghast at the sheer power. I can’t wait for things to die down so I can really put it through its paces.
My personal projects, however, are languishing. I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of reading done I had hoped. I still haven’t been able to start learning Tibetan. My banjo lessons were going good until this past month when all the work came to a head. I can’t seem to shake all the little details that swim through my head about work projects. I know this is bad, and that I should leave work stuff at work, but I am a project-oriented individual, and to leave things half-finished just bugs the crap out of me.
I really wanted to do a video documentary project this summer. The plan was to do some filming and interviews with ONA (Otaku no Anime), the anime fan group here. Unfortunately, due to my awful planning it fell right smack-dab on the weekend of the IALLT conference. Bummer. Now I need to find something new to investigate.
