The leaves were really pretty today… the weather was fantastic this afternoon. It made me realize that I’ve had my head up my ass for the past few days. I can’t tell if I’m really re-evaluating how I spend my time or if I am just making excuses for wasting it.
By the time I took a picture, the sky had gone gray.
Well, it’s 7am and I’ve stayed up all night. I spent the night downloading a bunch of Ben Folds MP3s and mostly working on my reading list for this semester for my independent study on interface centricity/modality. I don’t really have a name for the project yet. I’ve got 14 papers on the list, which is about 140 pages I would guess. (not including the Ph.D. theses which I certainly won’t read in their entirety.) Not too shabby.
We had another Collegium rehearsal last night. It is such a relief to be singing again. What a fantastic passtime.
Practicing for Collegium yesterday
I just added a new section to this site. It’s just some stuff from my old site:
Some of Niamh’s good friends, Matt, Pat and Liz, came out for the Ben Folds concert last night. The concert was fantastic–crowd participation, plenty of chatter, and passionate musicianship. Can’t ask for more than that.
We stayed up until about 4am talking about various things, mostly religion and prostitution. Woke up around 10am this morning (I think?) and went to visit Mary Kate at the drama music building where she was rehearsing some stuff for her dance class. We went for a nice long walk through campus.
The highlight of the tour was of course the bumper cars/drag racing we did with the rolling chairs in Wilbur Cross. Those chairs were just begging to be engaged in some insanity, and we happily obliged. I should’ve snapped some pictures. That’s life. Here’s one:
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Niamh takes a break
This morning I wrote the project proposal for my next independent study. I am very excited about this one, and I want to let that excitement drive my mood if at all possible. I’d rather not dwell on things like the Linear Algebra homework that’s due in 40 minutes that won’t really be done until tomorrow.
The thrust of the new project is to identify the problems with the current application/document model (disorientation and modality) and then find and implement a solution and compare its usability. I still have a lot of reading to do about quantitative usability testing and I haven’t even begun reading about modality and direct manipulation and whatnot, but I am slowly getting that done. The point is–I’ve got a timeline. The project is moving.
There’s a stretch limousine in the circle outside my window. Weird. Maybe it’s for one of the basketball players that lives downstairs.
Limousine
Well, it’s Monday now. I’ve gotten a bit of work done on the Jolt, but the newsbox is still not working.
I had a lovely breakfast with Niamh and Kim this morning though. I want to spend more time enjoying things like that than worrying about things like the Jolt.
Alex was here from Colorado last
week.
Haven’t accomplished a damn thing in the last couple of hours. I really should get the Daily Jolt straightened out, but I feel like it’s a real uphill battle. I have to:
So that’s it. I guess it’s not that daunting after all. Sigh. I’m just feeling lazy, I guess.
