Today has been a good day.  I bumped into a professor of mine on the bus.  She agreed to oversee a summer project of mine.  I am going to travel around Quebec collecting stories about the photoroman.  What is the photoroman?  It is a combination of text and photos to tell a story.  Photoromans were very popular in the French and Italian-speaking world during the 1960s and 1970s.

My project will require me to get better at Pro Tools, not to mention microphone use and interview technique.  Finally, I will have to learn to successfully make an installation somewhere here in Montreal.  Somewhere that can be a showcase for photoromans and the archived oral memories of those that loved them (and love them still).

When I learn to use a tool — even if it’s only a humble carjack — I feel more useful.  Research and journalism have their associated tools, and maybe I can justifiably use the word “tools” even if those tools are wielded in laughably soft hands like mine.