Today I attended graduation for both Northwestern's College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. It was a graduation of sorts for me as well, as I sat with the other faculty seeing undergraduates off into a bright future. I told you guys I'd be out of this business by the age of 40, and if nothing else I try to be a man of my word. I'll keep this one by a cushy 9 months.
My appointment with NU officially ends the 31st of August. Within the next 36 hours, I'm going to grab a bunch of clothes, some books, and some computing gear, then rood trip to the greater Washington, DC where my wife's been for 9 months now. A native Chicagoan she landed a gig that is a great career advance for her. For the rest of the summer, I'll be working with Medill's fellows in the News21 program, helping them implement web based, multimedia presentations of their reporting on privacy, civil liberties, and homeland security. Medill has a Washington, DC office so this works out perfectly. I should be back in the Chicago area a couple of times over the summer for various non-Northwestern related activities.
I'm not quite sure what I'll be doing after the summer, but if you need a versatile, multitasking, wicked fast learning, New Media Hacker yearning to scratch some new itches, I'm still available. DC area is a hard requirement unless you can give me enough money so my wife can retire. I could be convinced to commute to Chicago or NYC with the right perks.
New Media Hack will truck on for a few more months, while I wrap up loose ends here in Evanston. Depending on administrative largesse, it may even continue on into the next academic year. I'm debating whether to relocate the site, its current contents, and its sensiblity, or reinvent in whole cloth. I'll have a decision in a month or two.
Ciao!!