Struggling to keep up with this seminar… and make sense of what I want to participate in, or…
27 Jan 2015

Struggling to keep up with this seminar… and make sense of what I want to participate in, or…

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Struggling to keep up with this seminar… and make sense of what I want to participate in, or have time for. 

My struggle is with content… so I reminded myself… just post something, take a photo, and a theme will emerge. When in doubt, just do something. Don’t spin wheels. Don’t flounder. Who cares what anyone thinks.

Participating has reminded me of my previous self, the self who had blogs, twitter accounts, and Etsy shops… social media savvy, and knowledgeable about what was the latest and greatest, posted 365 project photos, and thought carefully about the world: it’s appearance, beauty in the macro, texture, and color. Digging into my creativity again, re-acquainting myself with my Flickr presence, etc… 

Using Tumblr for the first time to try it out, having used Wordpress and Twitter many times in the past. 

Primarily I used social media for work, and to promote retail… so this is new, but maybe not so new.

Creating a digital presence and persona feels the same. Curating and exploring. 

Maybe a theme will emerge? 

Today, I feel like the main character in a story begun by…
27 Jan 2015

Today, I feel like the main character in a story begun by…

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Today, I feel like the main character in a story begun by Douglas Adams and published posthumously (not post-humorously!). As written, Dirk Gently is an out-of-work detective in a cafe, who decides that a passerby must be a case (and that he just hasn’t been engaged by the client who wants the passerby followed).

In my case, I am an almost out-of-work university instructor— one course really doesn’t pay the bills; even EI recognizes that I need help—  who comes to campus every day to help faculty overcome any problems they are facing with the use of Moodle or other computer-based technology in their courses. It’s not something I’m being paid for, but it is work I really enjoy (and I hope someone will eventually notice who can hire pay me).

The ultimate in existentialist job-hunting: find a job and do it until someone begins to pay you. I don’t know that this will work, but then again, existentialism is so tenuous, so emergent, so fragile…

I wonder when people will begin to notice the bedroll stuffed under my desk…