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i love when its raining so hard you have to speak louder because you're being drowned out by the rain. if only it was thundering too.

i'm actually making progress on my thesis now. i feel a lot better about it. tired as fuck, but better about my thesis. went to dance today, because i'd missed thursday, but stress and lack of sleep had given me a stomachache and dizziness, so i just watched. fell asleep at least part of the time. :P the combination they were doing was pretty, and at the end she told people to put in pauses wherever they liked, which means the timing of it went random. like a visual fugue, very neat.

whee. 2 hours to write 6 more pages. i probably won't get quite that far. shouldn't be a problem - after all, i can talk about the topic just fine, i'm just having a hard time writing about it. but i'm going to meet with abby, during which meeting i will... talk about my thesis. so i can convince her i haven't been entirely slacking. :) my first draft is going to be so crappy, though - i don't have time to read all my reference material before it's due. hell, i haven't even found all of my reference material yet.

canceled fencing today, so at least i don't have to worry about that.

non thesis homework i need to do:
do linguistics worksheet
read cyborg articles
post on cyborg webct
read ch 1-5 of sign wars
post in advertising webct
watch pilobolus (yay orbis fines - 2 days overdue already)
write dance papers

non thesis non homework i need to do:
talk to shane about getting student group rates on revels tickets
talk to schaeffer about fencing insurance
talk to pamplin building supervisor about storing fencing equipment under the stairs to the catwalk
deposit checks
do laundry
shower
sleep
sleep
sleep


okay, more writing.

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spent an hour talking to abby. it really frustrates me that she assumes that if i haven't written something out, i haven't thought about it at all. even if it's mentioned as a topic to expand on in my outline. on the other hand, i really understand my thesis now.

My Thesis:
online communities are functionally different from offline communities in regards to medium and privacy. online interaction is primarily text based, as opposed to offline interactions which are primarily visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. offline interactions involve the body being public (visible (yes, i realize that you could wear a snowsuit all the time and no one could see your body)) and the thoughts being private (the person can choose to reveal them or not). in online interactions, the body is private and unavailable. with the need for privacy fulfilled, people feel more comfortable letting their thoughts be public. consciously articulated expression of thoughts is the only way to interact online, as opposed to things like body language offline, where the body is used to express oneself.
the reason this dichotomy isn't so clear cut in practice is because online and offline communities are rarely completely separated.

now of course i'm going to get people saying "but what about this piece of evidence?", in response to which i will kick them in the groin.

first draft due on friday. if i don't have everything written, i have to at least have notes about what extra bits are going where.

no fencing tonight. all i have to worry about now is the tons of stuff that i've been putting off to work on my thesis. (see previous post for list of stuff). i should read the cyborg articles now. but.... dinner's in 2 minutes!