The Life and Times of Floyd Masterson: An Update

Here's what's going on in my life:

I'm preparing for what will hopefully be my final year of formal education. In exactly one year I hope to possess my Masters in Journalism from the University of Kansas, hopelessly in debt and desperate for employment. Ah, to dream.

My master's thesis is focused on Utilizing Facebook for Political Communication. Fascinating stuff.

I am currently involved in a project for the journalism school. For details, click here.

I am currently unemployed, after quitting my job in anticipation of taking a summer course, which I then dropped to participate in the project.

I'm fucking broke.

My average day consists of sleeping to whenever the hell I want to, followed by perusal of the internet for a couple hours. Then I'll lay down for a nap. When I wake up, I get back on the internet. Once a day, I turn on CNN to see what asinine story they're reporting on. At six I watch an episode of Scrubs I've seen at least five times. I watch Royals games in the evening, usually while simultaneously checking my fantasy baseball statistics. At night I'll watch The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Dave, Conan, or put in a DVD. If I miss the 10 o'clock showings of the Daily Show and/or Colbert Report, I'll watch them at midnight.

This routine is interrupted twice a week by project meetings.

I know, it's rough.

In two weeks I'm going to Ithaca, New York for the project, followed by three wild nights in New York City. In October the project takes me to Toronto.

I am currently reading The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk, described as "A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian civil war to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance in today's world." It is 1041 pages long; I am currently on page 170.

I plan to return to reading fiction very soon.

In two weeks my roommate is moving to Chicago. I'll be living alone for the first time in my life.

And that's about it. If you have any questions, please post them in the comments section.