More attempts at blogging

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390328.post-38408520058383942782008-04-14T10:35:00.000-07:002008-04-14T11:07:08.221-07:00More attempts at bloggingI was reading The Advocate online the morning and I saw that one of their editorials ended with a -30-. That's unusual. Usually the -30- gets edited out before the article goes to press or gets loaded up online. It made me nostalgic for my journalism days. I don't think my journalism teachers ever told me exactly why you're supposed to end an article with -30-. So, using the handy dandy internet, I looked it up and found this nifty <a href="http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4408">article from the American Journalism</a> Review. Apparently no one really knows how the tradition got started and what it symbolizes, but there are some neat speculations. In other news, I went to the Southern States Communication Association conference in Savannah, Georgia the week before last. It was fun to meet up with old friends, former professors, and former students. It was also awkward because of the whole shift from LSU to BRCC thing. On the one hand, it made me feel bad for failing as an academic, and on the other hand, it made me feel good about leaving what Mary Daly calls academentia. As one friend put it, I can always go back. I do have enough spare time that I can write if the desire ever strikes me. But I'm not sure that it ever will. Maybe now that the pressure is off and I've had some recuperation and "detox" time, I can return to it. I don't know, though. The thought of it is both exciting and nerve-wracking. I don't know what I have to say that would be interesting to people. Wesley says that I edit myself too much. He's probably correct. In any case, I had a neat little thing happen to me the other day. One of my former college roommates contacted me. Of course, she got a hold of me via the internet. So shoutout to Patty Blancarte Cochoran. She wrote that her son visited Ireland and so she was interested in comparing itineraries. I'm like...whoa....she has a son old enough to visit Ireland without her. God I feel old. Next year I will be teaching Willow's classmates at BRCC. Not literally, but her class. Class of '08. We are deep in the heart of<a href="http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/2_05_05/pause.html"> Gen Y in higher ed</a> now. I really need to rethink how I teach public speaking. Though I have very mixed feelings about this. Do I teach to the new, more visual, more "parallel" (rather than linear) thinkers? Or do I try to drag them to the 19th century way of thinking, as Kathleen Jamieson would have us do in Eloquence in an Electronic Age. I donno. It's a puzzle that I constantly turn over in my head. Anyway, more students are here for advising. Time to go.~LS~http://www.blogger.com/profile/06703035240363925019noreply@blogger.com