![[Me and Touchdown the Cornell Mascot]](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/1338817670_88f1aec2ab.jpg)
Today, outside the bookstore at Cornell I was hugged by Touchdown, Cornell’s mascot. It was purely platonic.
All I know is that it was like 90+ degrees out. As you can see I was sweating from walking around campus. I can’t imagine what it was like inside that costume. But one thing I can say, at least on the outside, Touchdown had… well… some B.O. problems…
The first week of classes at RIT has been a blur. In part that’s because my only day to get out of class business done is Wednesday. I teach effectively 6 straight hours Monday and Friday (its two different sections of the same class). Tuesdays and Thursdays are spent in Ithaca (today I calculated that I spend over eight hours a week driving to an from Cornell — that’s a whole business day).
What is a bit awkward is that the lab component of my course is on Mondays. The lecture is on Fridays. So students are getting the so-called “hands on experience†before we cover theory. Or at least that was what I had to work on this week. I think I’ve managed to come up with a plan that takes care of that for future weeks.
Ok, ’nuff typing, time to read anthro stuff.
I’m back from vacation, and sitting in my office trying to get used to my new Mac laptop. Our short vacation was great. And Dre and I have passed the one-year marriage milestone with no frying pans being embedded into my skull. Good times!
Here are some photos from today at RIT:
Tomorrow I’m at Cornell to start classes there.
Things are crazy. Dre and I are trying to sneak away for a few days. So I don’t expect to have any updates until next week. Then all hell will be breaking loose as things are starting both at RIT and Cornell. Plus things with the Loop are going on as well. Fun, fun, fun.
Where did the summer go?
THE LOOP has soft launched. A news r&d project, run by Rochester’s Gannett paper, the Democrat and Chronicle, the Loop is a college focused news magazine. What makes it unique is that the end result has been developed and created by a team of students from 8 of our area colleges (basically everyone but the University of Rochester). One of my students from the School of Print, Heather Hynes, is responsible for the visual design of the site.
My involvement with the project has been as an adviser and a researcher. Basically, I’ve spent a few days a week in at the D&C sitting with the team, discussing online content production, and getting their views on the news. This is all part of my grounding for the work I’ll be doing at Cornell. It also is material I’ll be bringing back to my courses this year at RIT.
Oh, and all the cool kids have installed the Loop Facebook App and follow the Loop on twitter.