Home of the Media

It has been a while since my last post, but I can assure you that I am back and better than ever. Here are some quick updates on me; I am no longer training for the marathon(that didn't last long honestly), I am still a Cubs fan although they have given me many reasons not to be, and I am going back to school. I decided to go back to get my life going in a direction that hopefully leads me far, far away from the Quad Cities. My major is journalism, appropriately. I decided that if I'm going to school for journalism that I should probably start writing again. So I am back in the "Land of the Steve" for what I hope to be a long and glorious stay.

The journalism class that I am taking is Intro to Mass Communication. In this class we have been learning mainly about media and how it works. I have learned that Rupert Murdoch is a terrible person but at the same time a genius. If you don't know who he is I would highly suggest that you look him up and read a little about him. He is just an overall awful human being.

Our latest assignment has been to document every time we use media. That includes television, movies, music, internet, books, magazines, radio, etc. Every time I participate in one of those mediums I have to write it down. I have to write down what show I watched, what band I listened to, what sites I visited, and so on. Today is day one of the one week assignment. Already I can not believe how much I use media. Almost everything I have done today has involved some kind of media. I listen to music in my car, I come home and start watching tv. Then I move to my computer and start surfing the web at the same time I'm listening to music. So I'm partaking in two different types of media at the same time. In just half a day I have already realized what an incredible effect media has on my everyday life. I'm not sure that it would be possible for me to go an entire day without using some sort of media.

The part I find to be sort of crazy is that I am writing right now. So let me try to make sense of this as best I can. I am writing in a blog, which is considered media. When I finish this entry I will read it back to myself, so therefore I will be participating in media. So technically I am the media that I am partaking in. Does that mean I should write this down in my notebook? This is almost as confusing as my post on writer's block.

I am going to end there before it gets even more confusing. Thank's for stopping by. Go ahead and follow this blog if you would like, if not then you are a loser. That is all. Goodbye.


What I'm Listening To:

"Up Up Up" by Givers