Oh, this is bad. This is very, very bad. I have papers due on Monday and Tuesday – big, ugly, whopping final papers – and this morning I woke up at 4AM sick as a dog. Intense stomachache, vomiting, you name it. I spent the next three hours trying to nurse myself back to health enough to get some more sleep, and finally took some Tylenol PM and tried to pass out again. The stomachache had been intense enough to keep me awake, and even after I took the magic pills I could only sleep for about thirty minutes at a stretch, but I slept in this off-and-on, herky-jerky manner until five PM.
I’m sure this is what my body needed, but my schoolwork definitely did not.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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