Spring Breaking

Long time, no blog. Boy, a lot has been happening since I last posted, hasn’t it? I’m still shocked at how quickly and massively the economy appears to have gone in the toilet in the past year, and obviously the election has shaken things up a bit. I didn’t make it to the real inauguration, but the Lego version has infinitely more geek cred, anyway, right?

Things have been busy (I know, I sound like a broken record)… Winter Quarter is now a happy memory, and Spring Break is almost at an end. Matt and I have been slogging through the copy edits to our Princeton book, and I’ve been finishing up the editor’s requested revisions to my Cambridge book. Our NSF grant made it past the first hurdle and, we turned in a couple other grants to CCLE and OID. Looks like I’m going to APSA again this year in Toronto (Canada seems to be drawing me in like a magnet recently), presenting a paper with Erik Engstrom and a solo piece at the Pol Com preconference. After heavily revamping my Presidential Communication and Evolution of Communication Technology courses last quarter, I’m doing the same with my Political Communication and Computer-Mediated Communication courses. I need to teach more courses that are divorced from current events and technology. I sent my laptop off for its final Applecare repairs before the three-year warranty expires, then upgraded the internal hard drive to a more expansive 500-gig drive (as I fondly recall my old Powerbook 160’s 40 meg hard drive). And I’m still quietly weeping tonight now that there won’t be any more episodes of Battlestar Galactica anymore. So sad. But life goes on (unless you’ve been sucked into a singularity, apparently).

On an unrelated note, I just added another photo gallery to the site on the theme of LA at night. Enjoy!