It's crunch time

I have so much to do and little time to do it, that I thought I would take time out to tell you that I have no time. Due this month: Paper on my concept of a meaningful art curriculum citing the art educators and philosophies shaping my thoughts; Paper on World of Warcraft as a cultural interface citing the writers and theorists and theory shaping my thoughts; Paper on the History of art education from 1960-1980 along with a time line, a chronology and a PowerPoint presentation in class showing both the history of art ed during that time but also how it interrelates with the the cultural, political and global history as well as general education; an annotated bibliography of all the research I can find on art assessment; A paper, PowerPoint and Pacyderm presentation on an art educator whom I admire and consider to be a leader in the field; An Arts advocacy plan identifying a need for advocacy and developing a step by step strategy for addressing that need; A journal detailing my community service with Denton ISD;contributions to and evaluation of the UNT History of Art Education web site; Report on the tracking of Arts related legislation; Develop and program a new media object to address a need in the arts classroom which will address both music and art; and keep up with all the weekly reading and homework for the classes.

Ok, I don't think I left anything out. So this is why I'm a little crazy right now, but you can see it is also all very interesting, good stuff that makes me want to do more than really immediately necessary, and that is where I get into trouble.

I thought I would share this little funny with you. We had to "cut and paste" for one of our exercises in class. We took 3 quotes from 3 different articles on new media. We had to use all the words and couldn't add words. We had to cut them up and paste them together into a whole. Here's what I got. I think this is how some folks write their dissertations:

All the mystification through years of repetition, a strange fragmented authoritarianism, the cultural producer more total for being: A book can contribute to the perpetual fight against words. The lost have meaning and life.