{"id":1139,"date":"2006-02-25T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2006-02-25T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T19:03:37","slug":"reading-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1139","title":{"rendered":"Reading days."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like <a title=\"Post Comment\" href=\"http:\/\/alecaustin.livejournal.com\/77445.html?mode=reply\">Alec<\/a>, today was a massive reading day for me.  When I woke up today, I pledged to work on my many various web design projects (I swear, I think I have eight right now that are all snapping at my heels for attention, down you little buggers, <i>down,<\/i> dammit) but then decided that it would be more responsible of me if I did my homework first.<br \/>\nHah.<br \/>\n&#8216;Homework&#8217; in high school and even <i>college<\/i> was one thing.  &#8216;Homework&#8217; in <i>grad school at MIT<\/i> is a beast of a different color.  So far this weekend I&#8217;ve <strike>read<\/strike> finished:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i><\/li>\n<li>125 pages of <i>Chris Crawford on Game Design<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tom Wolfe, &#8220;These Radical Chic Evenings&#8221; (18 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Hunter S. Thompson, &#8220;Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl&#8221; (32 pages)<\/li>\n<li>James Gee, &#8220;Cultural Models: Do You Want to be the Blue Sonic or the Dark Sonic?&#8221; (28 pages)<\/li>\n<li>David Buckingham, &#8220;Will Media Education Ever Escape the Effects Debate?&#8221; (5 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Ian Shahanan, &#8220;Bow, Nigger&#8221; (8 pages)<\/li>\n<li>72 pages of Bob Bates, &#8220;Game Design&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwww.ellenkushner.com\">Ellen Kushner<\/a>, <i>Thomas the Rhymer<\/i> (258 pages; <i>excellent<\/i> book)<\/li>\n<li>Renee Hobbs, &#8220;The Seven Great Debates in Media Literacy&#8221; (5 pages)<\/li>\n<li>online COUHES training<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still to go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Cope, &#8220;A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies&#8221; (30 pages)<\/li>\n<li>A video game proposal<\/li>\n<li>A work of interactive fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;And <i>also<\/i> on the docket&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>website for CMS<\/li>\n<li>finish up a website for C3<\/li>\n<li>website for the MIT literature department<\/li>\n<li>edits for online otolaryngology encyclopedia in DC<\/li>\n<li>edits for a healthcare practice in Boston<\/li>\n<li>website for another healthcare practice in Philadelphia<\/li>\n<li>website for a venture capital fund in DC<\/li>\n<li>website for Ken<\/li>\n<li>miscellaneous consulting-related overhead stuff<\/li>\n<li>TA stuff for Henry<\/li>\n<li>taxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Insert quote from Wash here: &#8220;Oh God, oh God, we&#8217;re all gonna die.&#8221;  Jesus.  <i>Help.<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Update.<\/b>  I&#8217;m updating this page as the weekend goes on and I manage to knock things off the list.  If nothing else, this entry should stand the test of time as a testament to my being anything <i>but<\/i> lazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Alec, today was a massive reading day for me. 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