I’m at cor­nell for a work­shop. Classes for me ended last Friday, though a great deal of writ­ing remains. And I haven’t been able to get into that groove yet. In part, it’s been that a number of things popped up at the OPL that I felt I needed to give my atten­tion to. But it’s also that I feel like I need to revisit a lot of texts before I can really start. That said, I really don’t have enough time to do that. So, in the Nike sense, I just have to do it… or rather write it.

Things are crazy. Dre and I are trying to sneak away for a few days. So I don’t expect to have any updates until next week. Then all hell will be break­ing loose as things are start­ing both at RIT and Cor­nell. Plus things with the Loop are going on as well. Fun, fun, fun.

Where did the summer go?

Today was RIT’s con­vo­ca­tion. Tomor­row is com­mence­ment for our col­lege. It’s weird wear­ing the hood and being on the “other side” of the cer­e­mony. As many might have heard (or saw above), Bill Clin­ton was out speaker. I have a lot to write about it, but no time right now. So I present his speech, dig­i­tal recorded. Sorry about the up front moving the recorder noise.

• Pres­i­dent Clin­ton, RIT’s 2007 Con­vo­ca­tion Speaker (mp3)

While the site address hasn’t changed, the .RSS file has. You can now find out the latest in my life at:

http://​www.​wak​ing-​dream.​com/​?​f​e​e​d​=rss2

Thanks for the switch.

- Matt

Or at least being driven by a blog­ger engine. I got Word­press run­ning tonight. It’ll be a bit before I switch the blog over. I still have to redesign the tem­plate. But you can check out my humble begin­nings at:

http://​www.​wak​ing-​dream.​com/​i​n​d​e​x.php

As pre­vi­ously sug­gested, a lot has changed at RIT in ten years. Take for exam­ple the RITskeller. The RIT stu­dent cafe/bar is now an ESPN zone. Seri­ously. Walk in and it looks pretty much the same. But once you finish paying for your food and turn into the dining area, one finds one­self look­ing into a small TV pro­duc­tion studio with a Sports­Cen­ter backing.

The wall that sep­a­rated the Ritz back of the RIT game room has been knocked out and replaced with what you see above. I had heard that this had hap­pened but didn’t expect the results to be quite so dramatic.

Thank you to every­one for your encour­age­ment. Long over­due e-mails will be going out soon. Oh and Zooks, it’s only an MA. Though I truely wish it was a PhD.

Ok… things went really well. I’m just wait­ing on a final call to make sure things are set before let­ting it out of the bag.