backlog continued

What better way to begin my 2010 blogging than with a steady continuation of the theme I so thoroughly established in 2009. As I've made abundantly clear through a series of topical posts arriving so late as to almost be hip again, my writing process on this blog is for the most part painfully slow. I have a handful of topics I've been meaning to write on including a previously hinted at post about ideas I've had for MMOs, something about a space opera game concept, and a series of posts about design ideas which I need to finishing sketching out and develop some crude concept art for before I can blog about them. There's also the painfully delinquent post about racist toys. In the mean time, here's some really basic content that I should've handled previously (just after the jump).

This blog post pertains to content so olde that I'm including this picture of some frost on my window I took back in Feb. 2009

I'm now in what had better be my final year working on my PhD at UW-Madison in the department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (E.L.P.A.). I may have made an oblique reference to this in one of the posts I've written regarding my WoW guild leadership research (a.k.a. my thrice damned dissertation), but I wanted to get that established at some point and really meant to in the second post I started writing . . .  that would be the hastily scribbled notes which are now materializing as this post . . . moving right along. The long and the short of it is that despite my intention to have as little to do with the field of educational leadership as possible after I get my degree due to the peculiar politics of both education policy and education research (a topic I'll write about more at a later date), my experiences here in Madison in E.L.P.A. have been awesome and I wanted to give the fine folks in my department a shout out because they are that cool.

This post was also supposed to contain some content about World of Warcraft seeing as this was going to be my second blog post (insert LOL). However, it turns out I've blogged about it previously in my vain attempts to find research subjects through blogging. I am still working hard on the topic of WoW and leadership (and still looking for more subjects), but I've let my account lapse recently and don't really plan to play again until Cataclysm drops. Even then, I know my main motivation for playing will be the opportunity to hang with my guild again, not the largely mediocre gaming experience which is WoW. Before anyone gets irate about how I'm writing about a game I'm not even playing, I just need to say that I starting in mid 2005 while I was working on my MA and only stopped playing regularly late last year. At any rate, when I write the post about MMOs that I've repeatedly stated is in the works, I'll spend a little time talking about just why I've gotten so burned out on WoW and why chances of me playing more before the next expansion are slim to nill. Don't worry, I'll be doing a lot more than complaining. No really, there will be some generative ideas in there which I offer to the world (via the internets) free of charge.

While, that does it for the backlog which I had planned on addressing in this post over a year ago. Oh yeah, apparently I was also going to write something about my now former employer the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. I'm sure it was something positive though. After all they were still paying me at the time.

I suppose that leaves me with only one thing left to do, which is post a picture of one of my cats. After all, we need to keep the number of cats on the internet on the rise lest the infrastructure of the interwebs falls to pieces (least that's what I took away from the song). Here is a picture of Jeeves from last year. In this shot he is clearly a ninja. His fluffy friend Bertie will make an appearance on this blog at a later date.

This is Jeeves. He is 100% cat.

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