What are you working on? December 2011

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

For the next 2 weeks: finishing my end-of-semester exams and papers, so as to advance as a grad student.
After that, getting back to my attempt to summarise the cogsci of humour for my blog (will link when I have more parts up). I started by being interested in the cogsci of creativity and got a little distracted along the way. I'm finishing it because (a) I haven't really seen a good summary anywhere, (b) it incentivises me to read some stuff that I would otherwise not get to for months, (c) there are people who read my blog who would find it interesting, (d) better understanding of any part of cogsci is never a bad thing for me.
Fixing one of my end-of-semester projects that I was really excited about and then never had time to really do justice to.

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