Well let me preface this a little bit by stating that I am not much of a blogger. I have only written two blogs in my entire life time *gasp* ! Since I am in a sense, a n00b at this blogging business I am not entirely sure what I should be writing about, and how to go about writing it. I imagine my blogs will be tangenty, and scattered, so there.
While sitting in my New Media class, immersed in a deeply thrilling discussion, multiple thoughts raced through my head along the lines of ‘ohhh remember this for later, it would be good to reflect on in your blogâ€. Alas, I am not a memex and therefore I can only remember my most recent thoughts which have nothing to do with my new media class. My most recent thoughts long for my next day off from work where I hope to catch up on some much needed sleep. Sometimes (often) during class discussions I feel particularly ignorant and therefore unqualified to participate in the discussion because I do not fully understand things until someone else discusses them and sheds a different perspective which allows me to better grasp an idea. I don’t know if that makes any sense. It made sense in my head just now.
Oh hey! A thought from class…today I was introduced to the website ‘Second Life’ where you can live in the alternate reality of cyberspace with an avatar that represents you (if not physically then at least personality wise). This reminded me of Sim City which for me, was a very dangerous game as I would spend hours of my life living in Sim Time without noticing how many hours would fly by in real time (real real time…you know what I mean as in on earth and not in a computer reality). I am a very curious type of person and so naturally I would like to further investigate this ‘Second Life’ stuff but I am afraid that in doing so I will waste too much time in my real life, and time is what I do not have much of these days. Â
In true Sarah fashion, here are a few photographs that I took with my camera phone during the class break/ after class…
*Well I did not actually take this photo, my friend sent it to me in a text message that I recieved during the class break…I was amused because I was visuallizing her walking her leashed cat in her front lawn…if you could see what I visualize, perhaps you would be amused as well.*
*This is a chair that caught my attention (it was on the second floor near the compy lab), but also frightened me because it’s awkward lonliness reminded me of the movie entitled ‘Session 9’. (So I tried to insert a link here that would lead to the IMDB page for this movie but I haven’t yet figured out how to insert links into blogs).*
*The Beast*
…I hope I am going in the right direction with this blog thing. I will try to be more class related in my future blogs…