- Congratulations to
Billie for crushing the competition in the fifth annual E.W.M.
NCAA pick
’em thingamerbob. I had to wait a few days to announce the
congratulations because I wanted to be mathematically certain I was out of
the running. So I finished tenth? Tenth: that’s behind someone who
didn’t pick a champion and someone else called "Booger." - Slowly I am recovering from yesterday’s round-trip car ride to Buffalo
for NEMLA, my first ever MLA experience (regional or otherwise).
Alex’s paper gave me a lot of
good ideas to think about, the panel was well-received overall, and I think
my paper came off alright, even if I didn’t field any questions directly
about it per se (I did chime in on some other stuff in the Q&A, such
as multi-modal composition and demonstrable proficiencies). - JetBlue has won me over as a
long-term customer. How? Well, after last week’s return-from-N.O.
debacle, not only did they put me up in the JFK Best Western (I mentioned
this earlier in the week), but on Thursday they sent me an email telling of
a reimbursement voucher for the full cost of the trip, which I can use in
the next year toward trips to Louisville, San Francisco, or wherever. - Every so often I think about dropping out of Facebook.
- I took a couple of other photos while I was in New Orleans: another of
822 St. Charles,
hotel sign,
Maserati, and
repairs order. Said I would post them and so they are. - Coming spring and summer of ’08: Berthoff L.O.A. Series Cup
bolo toss. Watch for it. It’s going
to be b-i-g BIG. - I am, for the rest of the day, suspending all thoughts about planning
for the week ahead. In any possible order, it’s a week that will involve
(some but not all) of the following: getting my RSAct in gear, revising C.
2, revising that article, cooking up a little MayFest promo video for
the Writing Center, and drafting on C. 5. The video is marked urgent.
Plus, I have ten hours of consulting time due this week and a couple of
other back-burner things yet to do. All of this while everyone else in
the house basks in Spring Break (I’m not saying they don’t deserve it, of course).
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It’s terrible that you finished tenth. Even more terrible is that I finished behind you. But yay Billie!
Next year I will finish higher than tenth (all the more likely if Billie takes great risks and selects–oh, I don’t know–maybe one two-seed).