"I wanna do 'dis, Brutus, but I don't want to pay"

The title to this line is a quotation from the esteemed L.L. Cool J, in a song later interpreted by the more modern philosophers Sevendust in a heavy metal vent.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with my Capstone. But I needed a subject line and for some reason "Going Back to Cali" has been running through my head. You know, I've always wanted to take a kayak behind the outfield wall of SBC Park in San Francisco when the Giants are playing, if for no other reason than to get my picture taken in a kayak on the Pacific Ocean behind a baseball stadium.

Regardless, I emailed Mary Ann to see if she might be able to provide me with some mockups for the renovated Connected Classrooms site, so that I my research results are more up-to-date. It seems rather silly to user-test and interview based on a site that may have already made the improvements I may be fixing to suggest based on the results I found with the old version of the site... if that makes any sense...

So ideally, the following will happen: Mary Ann will provide me with mockups (or at LEAST wireframes) of the new version of her site and I will use those in my user testing. While she's preparing those, I'll go out and do some competitive analyses of competitors' sites (of which there are painfully few, with the only REALLY direct competitor, as far as I can tell, being the aforementioned TeacherWeb.com) to keep myself busy.

Also on the docket is about three-fifths of my legal report, due on Friday, and a competitor's analysis of one of LobsterGram.com's nemeses.