Craziness

So, I started a new class last week, and it is a crazy amount of reading and work, but I feel like I am learning all of the things I thought I still would not know how to do even after I finished my masters.  I’m pretty psyched about that. 

I’m still recovering from Italy, and surprisingly still very jet lagged.  I don’t get it.  oh well. 

I’ve been reading all of these articles about framing this week.  I have to admit that I really didn’t get it until recently.  Framing is all about language choice and how you choose words to effect people’s impressions of what you are talking about.  For instance, one article talks about the use of the words “tax relief”.  Ok, big deal.  Well, it is.  The word relief implies that there is something oppressive happening that needs relief.  I honestly never even thought about it.  Cool huh?  Do you have any frame examples that surprised you?

And, I have been having a lot of “what if” moments that have taken me a ways down the road in my thinking process.  Ok, it scared me.  I have decided to live the day I have now, and worry about the “what ifs” another time.  Is that naive?

And, check out the next cover of The New Yorker…I mean really.