So, for those of you who look at my friedAppleBlurbs blog, you might have noticed that I changed the “I’d rather be…” category on my status entry. I decided that it’s a negative thing to think about, and, as the old Deaner used to tell us, “Negative attitude = negative experience.” So I’ve changed it to “I’m excited about…”. I feel better already. It’s the beginning of a whole new me in Nashville.
Today I went in to school early so I could check out the TIE (my master’s program at hugse) event webcast. They had an alumni gathering that I could not attend, but they webcasted the panels so that we could watch (and sort of participate) from afar. It was only marginally interesting, which was disappointing. The best part was that The Colombian found me on AIM part way through, and we got to chat about it as we watched. I tried to blog it while watching, but it was my first time live-blogging, and clearly I need some practice.
I also attended an interesting meeting about embodied cognition this afternoon, which involved some complicated tele- and video-conferencing. There were some serious scholars in attendance, and I felt thoroughly intimidated and insecure and did not contribute. Everything Guy said he felt the same way, so I don’t feel too cheddar about it. Maybe I’ll write about my dream that has to do with that later.
I tried to do some work for the rest of the afternoon, but got into silly conversations with Fanclub Girl about her night out last night and about Friendster, in the middle of which Everything Guy came to chat, so no actual work got done. I did, however have a great (school topics related) conversation with Everything Guy about the embodied cognition project while sitting outside on the steps overlooking the lawn. Mischief Man even found us out there and hung out for while. It was just a nice, picturesque, academic afternoon, like in Dead Poet’s Society or something. K, maybe not, but you get the picture. Oh, speaking of which, the picture is of the building on whose steps we were sitting.
