even john geoghan has a story

today i found out that my Children, Culture and Media TA could actually make talking about comic books boring. i mean, learning is good...but honestly, connecting comic books to 18th century literature just isn't interesting. superman didn't live in 1750.
i also have to do a one page review of the two readings for my New Information Technology and Society class for tomorrow. the readings this week were not the best either. i really could care less how people from Trinidad project a large amount of their identity online and see the internet as being inheretly "Trini". The second reading started out ok, but then after about the fifth page it turned out to be one of those ones that just kept going downhill...YOURE WRITING A BOOK ABOUT VIRTUAL SOCIETIES AND THEIR EFFECTS OF REAL LIFE VERSUS ONLINE COMMUNITY SO I DON'T CARE ABOUT HOW WHEN YOU WERE EDITING THE FIRST DRAFT YOU SPILLED COFFEE!!!
it's funny how for that class all of a sudden technological determinism is supposed be new and exciting. sorry, no. i've been tossing that term around for four years, and while i do agree with it in the sense that society is incredibly proficient at taking new technology and incorporating it while seeming totally oblivious to the major changes it causes, that's still all dependant on the society in question. you think if you went to Zaire you could debate the deterministic applications of an iPod? didn't think so. that's really my only beef with that theory. especially if you couple it with McLuhan's 'global village'. again, dependant on a technological equality across the board that does not, and never will, exist on this planet.

i should really rename this blog "theory cheese?"

anyway...everett and i were prompted to discover exactly what there was to do on this campus on a thursday afternoon. there are fuzzy pink hats to try on. there are emergency exits that are backwards. there are participatory research things you can go to as long as you have 20/20 vision and can speak our language. they happen to be in the psychology memory labs. we went in and i asked if anyone had ever walked in and said "i forgot why i came in here..." oh and we made fun of the "everyone has a story" people. i really don't think the story about jesus they have on all their posters is quite right. i may have to bust out some judeo-christian history so they can fix them.

i cleaned off my shelves, so now there's less clutter in here. i'll have to make sure i clean again. my mom gets here in two weeks for a few days...followed by my sister. in the middle of midterms.

also, apparently someone from Tsawassen reads my blog a lot. i don't know anyone there. if you could be so kind as to tell me who you are that'd be nice. but only if you're not a stalker. less cool then.

current mood: "I Used to Love Her" by Guns N Roses

even john geoghan has a story