I just realized I am a communications student and I don't have the category communications in my blog how embarrassing...

It's quite late and my eyes feel gummy. Just before turning in I was noodling around on Facebook and found my classmate Dallas's blog. I hadn't read it before so I spent a little time catching up on what the MA media studies 2008 - 2009 cohort is doing without me this semester. Apparently it's naked candy porno parties and skating trips.

I love finding the blogs of people who I know in life. It's like walking into someone else's closet; "You hang your clothes like that? really so much plaid." It's polite and intimate all at the same time. Permissible snooping.

Looking at Dallas's posts led me to reflect on the nature of my daily communications practice, which snowballed into a little mental map of all the places and people I have communicated with in some form or another today alone.

This morning I sent an email to someone in New York, then I talked on the phone to various people in Montreal a bunch. Then a face to face meeting, then another, then a message to Toronto very briefly. Then sent more emails to Montreal, then a phone call or two with someone in Montreal. then met a volunteer and talked as we walked to the community centre. Received a text from montreal, then texted friend in New York (One day too late - but that's okay). Then talked to/recorded some girls rhyming to a beat coming from my i-tunes. Then talked with project participants about future stuff for an hour or two. Then I got a skype-in on my phone from the UK. Then I walked home and talked to my brother who was driving down the highway in Arizona. Then sent last round of emails related to montreal business before collapsing into tv and some well-deserved personal-time Facebooking/ blog reading.

Today I had a rather acrimonious debate with a colleague about communications styles. I think my colleague does have a point, I forget to tell people important things, all the time. But if I break down the amount of time I spend doing something related to that old getting signal from A to B with a minimum of interference and noise, compared to time I spend actually alone getting my work done. Well, If I fail to communicate on a more or less daily basis, it certainly isn't through a lack of effort.