The last big hurrah of the summer and I’m wrapped up in a sheet with a cold.  It’s pathetic.  I was thinking Fire Island and instead wound up pacing around my apartment like a wraith, trying to figure out if the mystery pills in the cabinet were Tylenol or sleeping pills.  I took both of them.  This may become the incoherent Round Up.  (Because that would be a real break in style.) 

The week opened with Clint Eastwood talking to furniture.  I think I’ve said all I can there.

Actually, no.  There’s one  little morsel of news there that I would never forgive myself for if I didn’t mention it: The premiere of TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo” had better ratings than the Republican National Convention.

Ok, moving on…

Schools back in.  Already the Commons has started to see some new life.  A ton of new faces and new blogs have popped up on the site.  For starters a Feminist Studies group has landed and looks set to make a big impact at the GC.  I’m looking forward to their programming this year.

The CUNY Math blog always has stellar writing on it, but this week was a knock out.  Frank Wang took on the question of ‘Why are so many Harvard student’s first born’ and basically beat it around the head with some serious math.  Later in the week Roman Kossak posted a insightful piece about the need for better communication between math faculty and asked the community to make the Commons their place.  I hope to see more discussions grow from this insightful piece.

I suuuuck at Twitter.  I’m terrible at it.  I go on there and see Boone and Luke and all of the cool kids making witty RT’s and ### and I can’t for the life of me figure it out.  Fortunately The CUNY Games network posted a great ’50 Best Twitter Feeds for Educational Gaming’ so if you’re like me and still dipping your toes in the Twitter waters this is a great place to start.  Thanks so much for posting!

Adam Wandt posted a photo of the Imagine mosaic in Central park this week.  If you’re new to the Commons one of the things you’ll notice is that we share photos in a lot of places here.  Feel free to post your own.  Adam also reached out to the community to try and start a discussion about what it means to be an American.  I’d really love to see how the Commons responds to questions of identity and citizenship.

I’ll end the week on a high note.  The Common’s own Raymond Hoh has been promoted to the BuddyPress core team.  Congrats Raymond!

Til next week.