The Future!

I know, it is hard to believe that a man who seems constitutionally incapable of blogging more than once in a three month period should discuss the future but it seems like a good idea for a number of reasons. First off I have a number of projects to which I would like to direct everyone's attention and secondly I would hope to address some of my plans for my own future. Hopefully as things progress this will help in the interpretation my twitter feeds even if I cannot manage to blog again before the wedding.

First off I want to direct everyone's attention to a project from Crowdsourcing which expands the one city one book concept which we have embraced here in Chicago. It takes this great idea to all of our beloved twitteurs and, in fact, everyone on the internet. The result of everyone reading the same book at roughly the same time will be that, according to Jeff Howe of Crowdsourcing in the Huffington Post, "a wildly diverse group of people would suddenly have at least one thing in common". Think about this on a worldwide scale for a second.
I simply had to get involved so I am plugging it to all of you. Making the matter even better is that the book chosen by the denizens of the internet through informal voting is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. So go snag your copy off of the shelf, borrow it from a library if any copies are left or buy one of your own and get ready because the reading schedule should post in the next few weeks.

I also want to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about the radio play project I have been working on for about half a year now. Our Fair City is a radio play set in a distopic future with all the trimmings. General mismanagement of natural and human resources has resulted in a barren world inhabited in subterranean-corporate-city-states. I know this may sound like something you've already seen. Trust me, this is special. Our Fair City focuses on the characters within the city. People fighting to make their way in an unfair world. Using the lens of the individual we give you interesting perspectives of the inner workings of the world. This first episode focuses on how the denizens of HartLife deal with mortality. Bear with us as we get everything up to speed.

As for myself outside of the internet plans for the wedding have sped along apace. We are still about four months ahead of schedule for the big things. We have a lot of tiny things to worry about and financing to obsess about. Otherwise all is in order and we have begun populating the address list for the save the dates. After the wedding I hope to start classes at Columbia's Center for Book and Paper Arts. After about a year and a half I should be able to make more decisions regarding my professional path. I venerate, once more, Giselle Simon of the Newberry Library for her excellent career advice. From the center I will look at conservatory for book making or a degree program in Library Science.

I'm also thinking I might take a summer course at the Newberry. Because I'm not stupid busy enough already, right? I will probably end up giving it a pass but for those of y'all in Chicago I recommend giving the program site a look. You can thank me later.

As for the immediate future it looks likely that I will remain at MSI for the foreseeable future. Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of my employ at that fine institution and I quite enjoy being able to educate hundreds of people every day about such a historically interesting artifact as the U505.

I leave you today with a less prescient note. I have just made "overkilli" chili for tonight's repast. Sadly I may have made it too spicy to be palatable for the girls so I'm hoping for the magic of sour cream to save my chili reputation. Keep an eye on twitter to see how it goes.