Archive for December 11th, 2007

So what’s new?

About three hours ago I finished my final assignment for the term. It was a paper on transit-oriented development in the Miami Metrorail corridor between the Northside station and Earlington Heights. It’s an overwhelmingly desolate area in some serious need of sprucing up.

The last thing, academically-speaking, I will be partaking in this term is a presentation tomorrow at the Miami-Dade County Government Information Center. A group that I participated in (and acted as a project manager for) will be presenting their assessment of the Miami-Dade government web portal. We hope to ace our assignment. Some people in the class view our group as having an unfair advantage because we have two Ph. D. students on the team… I’m more inclined to say that it’s because the two Ph. D. students have serious “real-world” experience.

The kids are doing well, though I must say they are indeed missing their father. It shows. The amount of misbehavior increases tremendously when I reach this portion of the term; but even at this level, they are better kids than some of the other kids I do come into contact with at the parks.

I’m working at the library, covering the Library Service Center desk for my student employees who are also taking final exams.

Can’t wait to go home.