there are many ways to read this phrase, but the one i'm thinking of right now has to do with Aaron's weblog.

but mostly it feels like time is running away from me again, what with having to teach both TIC and AIC this summer, and a tidal wave of e-mails and journals that i can't seem to catch up with... and the tide will only get stronger as the days go by.

but lest i come across as sounding beleaguered, that isn't really the case. i enjoy the intellectual and technical ferment generated by these two courses, and am sufficiently level-headed such that I make the time to get away from campus for a little while, like this evening for example. Angel, David, Daniel ("little hunter") and I went to watch Gone in 60 Seconds). we went to Mel's for dinner afterwards (hamburgers and sundaes), then Angel and I drove the boys home to their grandma's house up in the Berkeley Hills. that was a nice interlude... otherwise, my day typically continues after TIC or AIC, at my office, where exhaustion sometimes catches up with me and my head drops to my keyboard with a satisfying crash. lol.

anyway, the days since ATDP began have flit by in a blur, and curiously, sometimes i have a hard time distinguishing between actual realspace and the virtual world. any of you get a similar sensation? i know you must, since (as many of you have indicated in your journals) you do spend VAST quantities of non-school time online! the journals i've read so far on this topic have been more than intriguing, and i look forward to the 4th of July weekend to parse and analyze them to some extent. clearly, your generation is one that has be defined as partly 'digital' in important ways.

today in TIC, Tom, Luis, Angel and I went around talking to students about their individual website projects. there was this one kid in Trev's group, Edwin Lindo, who's doing what I think is a most remarkable, and courageous website project: he wants to create a web resource for kids of divorced parents... from the point of view of the kid. check out Edwin's incipient website. it's certainly worth following. (i might even encourage him to do a weblog, a bit later.) this is just the kind of thing that validates my faith in the web as a truly unifying medium -- in many ways, and not least in the way that one kid can deal with his loss, and share what he has learned with others like him. for once, i was speechless in the face of a student's proposed website, as i talked with him this afternoon. i hope he understood that i was moved, and not flabbergasted.

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