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[textualdeviance]

I've really hit the ground running this term. My position with the SPFH is going to be far more work than I had thought, and both my other classes are equally intense. I get the feeling I won't be going home many weekends this time around.

I already have a headache from lost sleep and stress. And my head photographer just had to go out of town for an emergency, so I'm even more swamped. I'll probably relax a bit more once we're a few issues in and I have a rhythm set up, but for now, I'm scrambling and have to remind myself to take breaks to eat and do something mindless.

I just have to keep chanting the "last term" mantra to keep going. If I had more ahead of me, I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. As it is, I expect a few nights of being curled up in a sobbing ball, just trying to take the edge off.

Making matters worse, our e-mail server crashed this past weekend, meaning I'm getting mail at my two main addys slowly, if it comes at all. NOT good when my whole life revolves around that. I'm having to make people cc my alternate addy so I can be sure to get things within some sort of reasonable timeframe. I'm looking at at least two weeks before things get resolved, and that's going to make an utter mess of things.

The good part is that I'm heading to SF for a few days to do this. It looks amazing. I'm planning to pull some info from that for my senior project. I haven't completely nailed down a topic, but it'll probably be something about how news orgs need to shape their content for delivery in multiple methods and on multiple platforms. Call it the XML of news media or something. Or I may just go lazy and do something specific about the adoption rate for news content on mobile devices.

Oh, and the first half of my advanced reporting class is going to be learning this. Heh. Of course, it may kick my ass, but I suspect I'll have an easier time with it than some folks--the prof included, considering he's a Luddite who's still on dialup. Poor thing.

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[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

Best of luck!

The Expo sounds very interesting. And heh, some of our staff use GIS software from ESRI, I never had anything to do with it myself though. Is it used a lot in reporting?

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

The good part is that I'm heading to SF for a few days to do this. It looks amazing.

It's looks like you're not going to have any free time with the Expo, but if you do, take a walk in GG Park, go visit Jack's Record Cellar (corner Page and Scott), and, sensibilities permitting, visit the Zoo (I know lots of people are philosophically opposed to zoos; the one is SF is a good one if you aren't). I was going to give you the link to a B&B on the Panhandle that's cheap by SF standards (because it's a private apartment, you have to make your own breakfast, etc.) but it seems to be gone; at any rate there's no link online to be found now, sigh.

All of which is to say, I'm jealous - I wanna go home to SF right now, I could do with the energy boost! Sigh....since it's you going, not me, all I can say is the above. If you have time, which you probably won't.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Reno, so I took many trips to SF when I was younger. I loved the zoo and the aquarium.

I'm staying at a hotel on the BART line near Moscone. I'll probably be doing little more than sleeping and roaming the convention floor, unfortunately.

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be doing little more than sleeping and roaming the convention floor, unfortunately.

Yeah, it sounds like it - too bad! Hopefully you'll at least get to have a glimpse of the ocean at some point along the way....

[miztiy.livejournal.com]

I think I found your ArcGIS registration paper in my living room this afternoon, just in case you're wondering where it is.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Ack! I hadn't actually finished the signup, so I need the access code. Can you send it to me in e-mail?

Thanks!

[miztiy.livejournal.com]

I'll send it to your insanity-inc e-mail, and I'll facebook it to you as well, in case that server is still down.