At first it was an aggravation. Then it became an annoyance. Now it’s becoming a little disturbing.
I’m on day four of 100+ temperatures. I woke up this morning feeling pretty good, but suddenly and abruptly convinced that my room was tilting backwards. When I got up, I started to stumble around and had a hard time staying upright for more than five minutes. Whatever this stupid virus is, it had moved into my inner ears. I groaned and missed another day of classes. To defeat this new problem, I took some Benadryl this afternoon and, in the words of Timothy Leary, “tuned in, turned on, and dropped out”.
Now, I’m a little bit of a control freak. I don’t use drugs or get rip-roaringly drunk because I hate the feeling of losing control. For much of the same reasons, I hate Benadryl. I took one Benadryl capsule this afternoon at 1 and then slept for four and a half hours, the whole time being plagued with anxiety dreams and nightmares. Worse, Benadryl affects me so badly that I couldn’t wake up. The stuff is horrible.
I’m trying to use this time to catch up on my reading, during the periods when I’m not unconscious (which is most of the time), but I take back my previous comment. I am a repentant speeder. Can this clear up now, please?
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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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