Finally a reprieve
Debate had been going for about 4 weeks in a row without any rest, and now I finally have a few weeks where I can finally breathe in and try to catch up with my normal life again. The last two days have been really nice, although somewhat surreal as I'm not used to moving at full speed and getting nothing done.
The Internet is up and running at the new house finally. This is my first blog entry from the new place. In the next few days I'll probably transport my main computer over. Right now it's still at the old place.
I have a meeting later this week to talk about the near future for my comprehensive examinations and my thesis proposal. The rhet crit part of my comps will cover Burke and Black, which I somewhat expected, so that's not a problem. There will probably be two more questions on communication education and documentary work in political communication as well.
I went to a group therapy thing yesterday and it was really a complete waste of time, unfortunately. It was a group of people who have trouble speaking up for themselves, and it really wasn't the group I really should have been in. Unfortunately, the depression group meets on one of the days of my hectic schedule, so I've been unable to sign up for that class. I'm probably going to drop the group therapy class I started Monday because I felt really stupid being there as none of the problem being discussed were anything close to what I need work on.
My shoulder's been really killing me lately, mainly because nonstop tournaments have made it difficult for me to work on the exercises my physical therapist wants me to do twice a day. I've worked on them twice today, and it hurts A LOT, but I'm hoping it will help in the long run and lead to this pain lessening some. It's really hard to sleep at night.
Last week, I forgot to mention that Kat and I saw the movie Dan in Real Life, and I'll have to admit that this is one movie I definitely identified with. Kind of sad actually, but at the same time it was a really good romantic movie. I really enjoyed seeing it as it had been a very long time since I've even seen a movie in a theater.
That's pretty much it for an update. Nothing special going on in my life at the moment. I've been getting a really antsy feeling lately, which tells me it's probably going to be time for my next novel to start being written. I did start writing a new play called, The Corruption of Justice Girl, a tongue in cheek superhero story that serves as a metaphor for the us versus them dichotomy in much of American political rhetoric. Recently, I've really gotten into Charles Bukowski's poetry. I'm not sure why, but it's hitting me really hard these days, and I wasn't much of a poetry reader in the past.
Current list of future papers to be written:
1. Gender in computer game lengths with Mariela
2. My synthesis of strategic versus tactical international relations with Kat
3. Narrative vs. Counternarrative (the 1991 August Coup) which I sent to ICA
4. My thesis, which is also on the 1991 August Coup tracing agit-trains to individual dissemination of messages.
5. A paper on the usage of Pastiche involving hip hop in iconic documentaries.
Stumble It!
The Internet is up and running at the new house finally. This is my first blog entry from the new place. In the next few days I'll probably transport my main computer over. Right now it's still at the old place.
I have a meeting later this week to talk about the near future for my comprehensive examinations and my thesis proposal. The rhet crit part of my comps will cover Burke and Black, which I somewhat expected, so that's not a problem. There will probably be two more questions on communication education and documentary work in political communication as well.
I went to a group therapy thing yesterday and it was really a complete waste of time, unfortunately. It was a group of people who have trouble speaking up for themselves, and it really wasn't the group I really should have been in. Unfortunately, the depression group meets on one of the days of my hectic schedule, so I've been unable to sign up for that class. I'm probably going to drop the group therapy class I started Monday because I felt really stupid being there as none of the problem being discussed were anything close to what I need work on.
My shoulder's been really killing me lately, mainly because nonstop tournaments have made it difficult for me to work on the exercises my physical therapist wants me to do twice a day. I've worked on them twice today, and it hurts A LOT, but I'm hoping it will help in the long run and lead to this pain lessening some. It's really hard to sleep at night.
Last week, I forgot to mention that Kat and I saw the movie Dan in Real Life, and I'll have to admit that this is one movie I definitely identified with. Kind of sad actually, but at the same time it was a really good romantic movie. I really enjoyed seeing it as it had been a very long time since I've even seen a movie in a theater.
That's pretty much it for an update. Nothing special going on in my life at the moment. I've been getting a really antsy feeling lately, which tells me it's probably going to be time for my next novel to start being written. I did start writing a new play called, The Corruption of Justice Girl, a tongue in cheek superhero story that serves as a metaphor for the us versus them dichotomy in much of American political rhetoric. Recently, I've really gotten into Charles Bukowski's poetry. I'm not sure why, but it's hitting me really hard these days, and I wasn't much of a poetry reader in the past.
Current list of future papers to be written:
1. Gender in computer game lengths with Mariela
2. My synthesis of strategic versus tactical international relations with Kat
3. Narrative vs. Counternarrative (the 1991 August Coup) which I sent to ICA
4. My thesis, which is also on the 1991 August Coup tracing agit-trains to individual dissemination of messages.
5. A paper on the usage of Pastiche involving hip hop in iconic documentaries.
Labels: Communication Theory, Education, School, Writing
Stumble It!
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