Kelly Boudreau

Crazy in the City: The world is your urinal

My home office looks out onto the street. It’s not the prettiest view in the world, but there is some foliage and traffic to keep me entertained in moments of procrastination and daydreaming. I live in a decent neighborhood with it’s eclectic mix of whack jobs and professionals. Yet, it does not seem to matterContinue reading “Crazy in the City: The world is your urinal”

Online Sociability: Yahoo! Chat to Facebook

Sitting in my living room last night with the television off (a rare occurrence for me, who usually needs background noise..) and I started thinking about my time online over the years. While I was a stay at home mom, I started chatting in 1994 in the Yahoo chat rooms. Sorted by topic, the rooms were filledContinue reading “Online Sociability: Yahoo! Chat to Facebook”

Working Through Ideas and Reality

I have been working on what is essentially the same research question since 2004 – working towards understanding the player/avatar relationship and identity – not in it’s classic sense as that which belongs (and identifies) an individual or entity (avatar), but rather how identity is morphed and redefined through digitally mediated interactions into something new.Continue reading “Working Through Ideas and Reality”

Another Semester

I cannot believe that the last time I posted was in July. It has been a busy summer filled with mostly personal challenges. My oldest daughter went away to university in Halifax, N.S. – a good 13 hour drive from home… We dropped her off last Saturday. As we helped her settle into her dormContinue reading “Another Semester”

Crazy Shouldn’t Drive

I meant to post this a little while back when it happened, but life and procrastination got in the way. In keeping with my crazy in the city sub-theme, the other day, the older woman who I may have mentioned spent some time gardening in her skivvies (bottoms only) late at night, wanted to goContinue reading “Crazy Shouldn’t Drive”

Finding My Voice

I have been plugging away on writing my dissertation now for the better part of too long, and I keep hitting the same walls over and over again. Today I am struggling with finding my voice. As someone who loves social theory (and theory in general) but have always done some sort of ethnography, alternatingContinue reading “Finding My Voice”

The Wonders of Technology Mixed With a bit of Introspection

I know I promised to blog the CGSA conference, but, as always, I got wrapped up in attending and socializing that I did not get a chance to actually write the posts. I have a lot of notes and anecdotes that I will put together tomorrow (and with the wonders of technology – back dateContinue reading “The Wonders of Technology Mixed With a bit of Introspection”

Canadian Game Studies Association @ Congress 2011

After a grueling 11 hour bus ride (apologies to my Facebook / Twitter friends for my off the rail rants!), I arrived in Fredericton, my old undergraduate stomping grounds. Was stunned to realize that it has been 17 years since I lived here, yet, little has changed besides the location of the bus station (which,Continue reading “Canadian Game Studies Association @ Congress 2011”

Eclectic Gardening

Why – I ask – must my flamboyant neighbor from across the alley garden in in underwear? There are no trees – no hedges – no fences to hide his business…..and when he uses that shovel, it’s just a wee bit more than I ever needed to see…. Why….can’t…. I….look…..away???

Crazy in the City

Earlier this year (during the winter months), I blogged about the crazy bunch of art students who took nude pictures lying in garbage in my alley way early in the morning. Sadly, they weren’t the brightest bunch, and left all the garbage they had dragged in from the street in the middle of the alley.Continue reading “Crazy in the City”