I was either going to title my last post “Achievement Unlocked” or “Successful Completion.” I went with the latter because I had the sneaking suspicion I had already used the former title, but was too lazy to verify. (I had not.) In any event, about an hour after I hit publish, the doorbell rang because […]
In the summer of 2012 I got to spend a few weeks in Morocco as part of my graduate program. I wrote some posts about that. I made a short video on an NGO project with two of my classmates and attended a great deal of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. While I […]
“Not to be critical, but…” began a Facebook comment which inevitably followed with an incredibly critical comment on an article a friend shared. I care very little about the local business in another town being discussed, but the “Not to be _____, but” opener is a particular gripe of mine. I find any statement that […]
When things get bad, the last thing I really want to do is talk about how much things suck. Partially this is because when I start doing that, out loud, to other people, I become aware of all the things I should be grateful for and the thousand ways it could get worse. I’m also […]
I have begun to experience my life in tweet form, and it makes blogging feel a tad impossible. I end up with a few dozen stories that I’d like to share, each in 140 characters or less. Forgive me if this lack of focus is evident. As my final project for the course I am […]
I have a whole hell of a lot of super blonde hair that I do approximately nothing with. It’s an accomplishment if I brush it. This hair calls attention to itself everywhere. Even back in Missouri, some of the middle school students in my classes (during my stint as a substitute teacher) called me Ms. […]
Saturday was the second anniversary of my first post to this blog. I feel like I should do something to mark the occasion, but I am not quite sure what to say. That is sort of a running theme with me lately. When I started this blog two years ago I had just graduated from […]
Yesterday I woke up and decided, “I am leaving the 7th today. It’s time to be a real person.” To clarify: I had to leave my neighborhood regardless, I just decided that this meant that I should also be a real person. When a friend complimented my dress I was a little taken aback by […]
It very well may appear as though I have fallen disturbingly in love with vlogging. As in, it is bordering on “a problem.” That might be true. Over at this collaboration channel we have been having these fantastic conversations, and it has been so much more interactive than this blog. Granted, part of this has […]
Being in a Global Communications MA program, the internet enters a lot of our discussions; it has been a significant part of all but one research paper that I have written here. You can’t avoid talking about this thing that has fundamentally transformed the way we communicate (especially in the international contexts that this program […]