Summer Postin’

It’s been a busy summer, and I still haven’t fixed up this blog like I’d like to. Regardless, it’s been eventful, so I figure I should share some of it with the Internet.

I presented two talks and a poster at the Games+Learning+Society 4.0 conference this summer, and ended up winning one of the poster prizes (for best theoretical poster)
We went to two weddings: Matt & Jill’s (in Ohio), and Ben & Amanda’s (in Virginia)
I hung out in DC for a few days with Liz, got to see Georgetown and meet her friends
Now, I’m heading to LA tomorrow to give a talk at the Sandbox Symposium, then Boston next week to give a talk (for my advisor, Constance) at the American Psychological Association meeting.

So, yeah, I’m rather busy. In the midst of that, I did physical therapy for my perpetually bad back, submitted a paper to a journal, started writing another two manuscripts, and have my prelim questions coming into shape. Progress.

A few other things to note…

I upgraded WordPress, but the upgrade broke all the categories. I dunno what to do about that, and I’m too lazy to fix them right now — expect that to be busted for a while until I overhaul the whole site
I’ve been Twittering much more often than blog posting lately, and the Twitter feed is on the front page of this blog now. Go there if you want to see what I’m up to in a more timely fashion
I’ve recently added WPTouch, a new plug-in for WordPress which makes se4n.org look readable and pretty via the iPhone/iPod Touch
However, I’ve been spending more of my time reading blogs using Google Reader lately — so much that I’ve now started a new, miniblog type thing with my shared items from Google Reader. Eventually, this will be incorporated into this weird mish-mash of a blog I have, but for now, check out the link
Though this has nothing to do with The Cake Saga (see previous posts), I found the first panel of the latest xkcd to be a little disconcerting:

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