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Hello all,

Good news! A new post will be going live in the next couple of days and then I will be back on a more regular bi-weekly schedule. It was supposed to come last week, but then my students got me miserably sick, so I was simply fighting the battle of staying on top of schoolwork and getting enough sleep while my brain refused to work.

The upcoming post is a brief detour from the health and technology series I started, but I think it is pertinent and timely. So be on the lookout for that.

In regards to life, Josh and I are almost entirely unpacked and settled in to our new place in Boulder. Last week, we got all our artwork on the walls, so the apartment is really starting to feel more like home. It’s a surreal experience watching the sentimental and aesthetic items that decorate one space realign themselves in order to decorate a new space. A sort of reincarnation of home. Same but different.

Classes are fantastic, and my cohort is amazing. I am grateful with how quickly we have bonded. I am also thoroughly enjoying teaching. I get to spend four hours every week having awesome conversations about Conversation with my students (super meta I know but that legitimately is the title of the class), and those hours are always a blast. That being said, though I’m no longer working the equivalent of two full time jobs, I am still very busy. I’m trying to figure out work/life balance where there is no longer a clear distinction between categories in my life. Social blends into class-time blends into teaching blends into homework blends into my normal leisurely media consumption practices. With each week though, it gets a little better.

All in all, things are fantastic. Glad to be in Boulder and not missing Southern California weather one iota. Thanks to those of you who have already visited, and I hope that more of you come out to visit us in the next few years. I’d love to give you a tour of our exquisite campus and take you on a drive through the Rockies. It truly is an inspiring place to live. 

Keep a look out for the next post and as always, make sure you subscribe below to get each post automatically in your email inbox.

The featured image is used by permission of joiseyshowaa through a CC 2.0 license.

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I love thinking about the future – space, singularity theories, artificial intelligence, new economic systems . . . you name it . . . .
This time around, however, the future I have been primarily thinking about is my own immediate destiny.

This last month has been an exhausting experience of trying to finish my thesis and also decide where I plan to spend the next few years (or more) of my life. Many of you have been part of that journey, and I am extremely appreciative of all the advice, support, words of encouragement, and prayers.

Last week, as you have likely guessed, I completed both of these objectives. First, I turned in my thesis, entitled “Unsuccessful Saviors and a Cinematized South Africa” about Hollywood films attempting to promote social justice that inadvertently end up perpetuating stereotypes of a binarized and simplistic South Africa. That was officially approved by the department committee on Monday morning, so I’m good to graduate!

Second, I accepted the offer from the Media Studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder. I will be joining their incoming Ph.D. cohort beginning this fall 2016 – which means Josh and I are moving to Colorado!

Now that all the stressful decisions are made, I am just so excited for this new season of life. I love Colorado so much, and I feel so grateful that the best program for what I want to study just happens to be in such a beautiful part of the U.S. and where several of my closest friends live. Of course, it also comes with really sad goodbyes, and it will be strange to leave southern California after having lived here for the past eight years. (8 years?? Yikes!) But am I so ready for four seasons, more snow, and a little less sunlight.

Josh is looking for a job out there (teaching photography or working in the fine art world), and we’re also beginning the apartment hunting process, so let us know if you have any leads! We will likely move to west Denver, and I’ll commute to Boulder.

Once again, thank you so much for all of your support and thanks for your patience during my period of radio silence. I have missed this space greatly, and I am glad to be back!

Apparently, I am now a Buff!
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