This update has been a long time coming, and having left my work at home before coming to the coffee shop has given me the time to make it. I have been largely getting back into the swing of classes and grading; I may be teaching more classes in the next few weeks, we’ll see. Lately the student’s work has been slacking off; today the class let out too fast for much comment toward a remedy for that situation. The Documentary is titled and has shown in Washington DC during the recent anti-war protests. It will show again in DC at the end of the month, and will show in New York soon as well, it seems like the Communist Party of New York is interested in showing the film. Which means that I have now produced (in part) Communist Propaganda. There will be a screening of the film on the 21st of October and another on the 4th of November.

Work has begun on my thesis, tomorrow I need to deliver some words on it to a respondent, and then a copy of that document to a number of people associated with the working of the thesis. I have my committee together, and I need to take some exams soon. I will also be applying to PhD programs in the next few weeks, at least 6 programs, perhaps 12, mostly communication but also some comparative studies work.

I am planning on going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival this weekend, hopefully. All in all I am very busy and I wont get nearly what I wish done tomorrow; I need to cancel some office hours as it is, do laundry, clean my room and the living room up a bit. I will miss the guys night out tomorrow I think, unless I meet up with them later, which I doubt I will do.

I miss Europe, and I miss my friends there; part of me thinks I am really only alive there, that I am only able to love there; I miss Kreuzberg a great deal, Berlin as a whole, and of course Amsterdam. For a while things were going ok here, but I was going out way too much, that has declined; I haven’t gone out every night this week, some of the friends I...

This update has been a long time coming, and having left my work at home before coming to the coffee shop has given me the time to make it. I have been largely getting back into the swing of classes and grading; I may be teaching more classes in the next few weeks, we'll see. Lately the student's work has been slacking off; today the class let out too fast for much comment toward a remedy for that situation. The Documentary is titled and has shown in Washington DC during the recent anti-war protests. It will show again in DC at the end of the month, and will show in New York soon as well, it seems like the Communist Party of New York is interested in showing the film. Which means that I have now produced (in part) Communist Propaganda. There will be a screening of the film on the 21st of October and another on the 4th of November.

Work has begun on my thesis, tomorrow I need to deliver some words on it to a respondent, and then a copy of that document to a number of people associated with the working of the thesis. I have my committee together, and I need to take some exams soon. I will also be applying to PhD programs in the next few weeks, at least 6 programs, perhaps 12, mostly communication but also some comparative studies work.

I am planning on going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival this weekend, hopefully. All in all I am very busy and I wont get nearly what I wish done tomorrow; I need to cancel some office hours as it is, do laundry, clean my room and the living room up a bit. I will miss the guys night out tomorrow I think, unless I meet up with them later, which I doubt I will do.

I miss Europe, and I miss my friends there; part of me thinks I am really only alive there, that I am only able to love there; I miss Kreuzberg a great deal, Berlin as a whole, and of course Amsterdam. For a while things were going ok here, but I was going out way too much, that has declined; I haven't gone out every night this week, some of the friends I have met this year are a bit tangential, and some of my older friends are off in their own worlds. This year is already ¼ over and can hardly believe it.

Being back at school this year seems more and more like a trial, or a waste of time. My classes are good, and the work is delicate but I really just want to work on my thesis and get the hell out of here; I am having doubts now about what's next but I will go on, I know that, but this year just seems to be a waiting game more than anything else.