Well it’s official, I’m the at-large member of the executive committee for the graduate informatics student association.  The at large member is the person who takes on the stuff that doesn’t fit into the other committees, helps get students’ needs heard, and serves as an alternate point of contact for the organization when the executive chair isn’t available.  What that means for those of you who are graduate students in the dept of Informatics is that I am here to serve you.  Please email, IM, or call me if you have a concern about school.  I would also encourage you to get involved with GISA or one of the other organizations on campus and get your voice heard!  All too often we complain about something, wish something were different, but think it’s not that important.  If you care about it enough, chances are something can be done about it.  Just this week I met with Michael McRobbie, President of IU.  I brought him my concerns about student health care, and about game studies AKA ludology.  I believe that my concerns were heard, and even though it is not yet significant, actions are being taken, and that if I’m persistent real change will happen.

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The other thing I can’t resist writing about today is  Fall.  It’s the first of November, you can feel it in the air.  Here in Indiana the leaves are changing, and of course falling.  There is a crackle when you walk the sidewalks, and frost on the still-green grass in the mornings.  I love this time of year… bright warmish afternoons when you wish you didn’t have your coat that you needed in the morning when you left home.  Something is happening in the world, change is coming, not just in the seasons.  What will life bring you in the last 61 days of 2007?  Good things I hope!