Monday, March 18, 2013

Week Seven: Not Feeling Clever Enough For A Title

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I’m not feeling up to a great blog post this week, and since I turned in my project, it’s going to be incredibly short, so I apologize for the lack of quality. Life has been horribly chaotic this past week.
For articles, Wednesday’s on the pope was my obvious choice for two reasons—one, I thought the red hats in the header picture were fezes because I miss Morocco and two, Francis, 76, is First Non-European to Lead Church in 1,200 Years. The last pope (I don’t remember his name, and frankly I won’t remember this one’s) was the first in 600 years to retire, and this one is the first non-European in 1,200 years. Not only is that two consecutive firsts, but one number is divisible of the other! How cool is that? Frankly—and I hope I don’t offend anybody by saying this—I don’t really much care about the pope, didn’t care about the last one, doesn’t really affect me at all until one or the other starts making homophobic comments. Anyhow, I think this is newsworthy because the guy’s Argentinian, and apparently this is big news. Maybe they’re going for diversity in the catholic church? (The pope is catholic, right?) Obama seems to be happy about the choice unless he was just feeding the media a line, which seems likely since he’s president. I definitely would not have seen this if it were online because the only reasons I was attracted to it were the fez-likes hats in the accompanying picture and the fact that 1200 divided by 600 is two, thus making the second pope the first in twice as long.
Class expectations haven’t changed. I wish I had more energy to put something more meaningful, but alas, I do not. I’m giving my presentation tomorrow, so perhaps I expect that to be an informative experience as I’ll get to know all the mistakes I made in the Soundslides and perhaps learn what I need to know going forward with the video project in May. Speaking of May, Maybe I’ll go sleep now. I know it would surely benefit others in my presentation, since being articulate is typically a good thing.

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