I know I’ve been quiet here lately, but that is because life is so noisy everywhere else. Here are the headlines:

teaching
It was with great trepidation that I introduced my undergraduate music/media studies students to research blogging this week. I was dumbfounded in some cases when I realised the size of the conceptual leap I was asking some people to make – from occasional email, chat and random googling to genuine network literacy. I guess it brings home the fact that “young people” are never, or at least not all, as wired as we “older people” think. Some of them are doing such cool things, though, that it warms the cockles of your heart.

I have also been and/or should now be:

coughing
and generally having the flu.

marking
All the essays by the above brilliant people…

thesising
I have my formal thesis proposal thingy due, well, imminently. ‘nuf said

travelling
Off to Perth for a couple of days on Sunday. Oooh, I forgot to announce, I’m also off to Oxford in July!

editing
The “porn” issue of M/C is jointly parented by me. we are snowed under with articles…

reviewing
3 books and an article, some already more overdue than others….
Listing things like this only makes it worse. I might go back to doing some of it now, instead of…

blogging, which often feels suspiciously like

procrastinating