So I mentioned that I was taken out of commission on Saturday with a 104-degree temperature and a sore throat, which I chalked up to the flu. Thanks to some nurturing from Kate, I was back up and running by Monday afternoon. I even felt well enough to go see Van Helsing with Ferraro, which was good dumb fun, just the thing you need when you’ve been feeling under the weather. I thought I was home free.
I was wrong.
Yesterday morning I woke up with the worst earache ever. Serious megapressure building up in my right eustacian tube, intense spikes of pain from my ear. Something was clogged or infected, and I spent the day pretty much writhing in pain. I used to get these all the time when I was a kid, and I’d forgotten how excruciating ear infections can be, because there’s so many different types of pain involved. The dull throb. The waves. The spikes. The jabs when you brush your fingers against the edge of your ear. The ringing, and the burbling, and, as this morning, the intense searing pain as your eardrum finally ruptures and starts leaking the pressurized fluid from inside.
I have antibiotics and I’m all set to spend yet another day in bed trying to shake this off, but I haven’t been this sick in a long, long time. Getting my wisdom teeth out wasn’t this painful! This sucks.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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