I am sorry for the lack of updates. It has been pretty quiet around campus even though Summer session 1 has started. It is always quiet here in the Summer.
I am working on campus, at least till the end of the summer. There is a big project that the web team is working on, that I’ve been helping with as well. Its really nice to be part of it, especially since this type of project has been in the ‘talking’ phase since I first started here 2 years ago. It is great that this stuff is really getting done.
I have been spending my afternoons and weekends either helping my parents or playing World of Warcraft. I created a WoW journal, but I need to find the url so that I can write in it and link it somewhere.
Lets bring back something I haven’t done in a while, the Chris Brogan blog topics. I haven’t been going in order for a while, so.. picking a random topic off the list I am going to talk about Downtime – What I Do Offline to Recharge.
At work, I am online and at home I spend a lot of time online.. but there are things I like to do that do not require an internet connection – or even a computer. I enjoy reading, cross stitching, swimming (and now that its summer I can probably combine those at some point), and just hanging out on the sofa and watching tv.
I hadn’t really thought of any of those things I do offline as “downtime” because I’m not doing those things because the internet is down – I just do them because I like to and to take a break from the routine. But, this past tuesday I was chatting with a friend on the phone (omg.. PHONE conversation, VOICE conversation.. I KNOW! shock!) because our server for world of warcraft was offline for maintenance. I was working on a stitching project I had started over a month ago, its not getting anywhere fast because I was working on it in between things. We were laughing at how just the night before we were playing the game, chatting about what we were going to do to fill 24 hours of time that our server would be offline. Of course, part of the conversation had to do with the coming expansion and some changes we know are coming and others that we’d like to see but probably wont.
I’m not sure when, but definitely by the end of the summer, I won’t be updating this blog anymore. I am no longer a student, and I won’t be again until I take the GMAT and get myself into the Graduate school here.. at which point, I’d gladly start up again. I am, however going to continue with my other blogs. I am going to make a better effort to update my livejournal more often. At some point before I completely make the switch and post the link in a very last blog, I will do mirror posts.. just in case I’ve got repeat visitors. The nice thing about my personal livejournal is that I’ve got comments enabled. 
