November 1, 2014

It seems a little ridiculous that November is already here. Wasn't it just August? What is happening?

I slept in today, at least according to the clock. I think I only ended up getting maybe seven hours of sleep so it didn't really feel like sleeping in. But I got up anyway and eventually went to work. I spent most of my time kind of half-assedly working my information life/transfer cycle project. I read through the PDF chapter about the cycle and copied down the relevant information for each stage in the process. This was needed because I had been a bit in the dark as to the meaning of each stage and couldn't really pick it up from the examples the professor gave us. Now, I feel a lot more comfortable with it. That doesn't mean I have much of an idea of how I'm going to do my project, though. I'm still somewhat set on doing it on disinformation because I think that would be interesting, but I need to read a lot more about disinformation and get a better understand of how it works. That will need to be done tomorrow. Along with turning it into a infographic-like illustration.

I was reminded of how often the the staff turns over at the theater in the last couple of days. There are a few familiar faces but for the most part I don't recognize anyone. Although, I didn't really pay much attention before so I would be hard-pressed to recognize anyone if they hadn't been there for over a year. Anyway, I went down to help clean and in the first theater the kid I was helping asked me if I worked there. I don't think he's the brightest. I was dressed up just like he was, with the company logo on my chest, carrying a broom and dustpan, and cleaning a theater. I would have thought my employment was obvious. But to be fair to him, he started working two months ago and I haven't worked since before that, so he had never seen me before. But also to be fair to him, I was dressed just like him, so maybe his question shouldn't have been whether or not I worked at the theater.

Tonight I wrote my discussion post for this week. Or rather, I avoided it for the majority of the night and didn't start writing it until after eleven o'clock. I looked over some stuff as the night progressed but nothing was coming to be so I just let it sit there in the back of my mind for awhile. Sometimes that just has to be done. In the end, I ended up writing a whole but and I think it is pretty good. And I posted it so hopefully it is actually good and just not my late-night perception. Tomorrow I'll have to go back and comment on two other peoples' posts. I really didn't want to have to try and come up with intelligent responses at one o'clock in the morning.

And now I am going to go to bed so I can get some sleep and be capable of intelligent responses tomorrow. As well as come up with a kick-ass visual representation of the information life cycle of disinformation. It will be a productive Sunday whether I want it to be or not. Although I do in fact want it to be because it has to be, whether I like it or not. I'm leaning toward not.