Chronicles of a Cub Reporter

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Finally

Just a quick post to say two things:

1) I've been in some kind of depressive funk for the last few weeks, induced (I think) by a series of tough cops-and-courts assignments in RWI, several far-from-uplifting reading assignments (also in RWI), abject panic about my master's project, and an unsuccessful and demoralizing effort to get into Prof. Sam Freedman's book-writing seminar. (Those keeping tabs will note that I am now 0 for 2 where Prof. Freedman is concerned.)

I'm sure it would have been therapeutic to write about the downward spiral as I was traveling through it, but I just couldn't get my act together enough to do it. (On the bright side, at least you didn't have to read post after whiny post about my trials and tribulations. Zach took one for the team on this -- he got to hear the whining in real time.) In any event, I hope that I am through this particular bad patch. Perhaps I will even use the upcoming Thanksgiving break to make good on my perpetual promise to catch up on my posts. . . .

2) Remember weeks and weeks ago when I said that I had finished my website for the New Media Skills class I had taken, and that I'd post the link ASAP? Well, at long last, here it is: Click here to check it out.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

On Second Thought

I just pulled the various RWI stories I posted last weekend. Even if nobody ever reads this blog, I realized that I should have gotten permission from my sources before posting the stories here. I'm leaving the one from earlier in the semester -- it has only one source saying one non-controversial thing -- but at least for now, the rest are going back in the metaphoric drawer.

I think I just proved the point I was trying to make in the essay posted below. . . .