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October 10, 2004
211 Miles of Bad Road
Technically, 422 miles of bad road, round-trip. So here's the story of my weekend. My somewhat brief time in Statesboro was actually pretty nice. I gave a talk on some of my experiences using weblogs in freshman composition classes at a conference this weekend, where I had the good fortune of appearing on a panel with Dennis G. Jerz, who spoke about both blogging and wikis. Like Dennis, I learned quite a bit from being one of a small number of English faculty members attending the conference (compared to library sciences and other discplines).
But to be honest, the most memorable part of the weekend was the drive. I'm someone who really doesn't like to drive. If I had a better car (I currently drive a 1989 Mazda with 192,000 miles on it), I might enjoy driving more, and it wasn't really a bad drive. Georgians love their concrete, and I encountered fast, smooth roads all the way from Atlanta to Statesboro. I made it to Statesboro in time to watch the debate last night (you may have heard about it), and while Bush seemed less uncomfortable than he did last week, I still found him to be incredibly defensive, especially on foreign policy. His inability to acknowledge that he makes mistakes is also a major problem in my opinion. I do think that Kerry should have been a little more aggressive, but holding serve in the town hall debate doesn't really hurt.
Finally, I've just learned about another film blogger out there and wanted to give him the spotlight, or at least a quick link. Filmmaker Guy (I'm eventually going to become lazy and start referring to him as FG, might as well start now) teaches film production and has made several films (and that's all I'l say for now).
Too tired to go to see a movie at theater, so I'm watching the Bob Dylan documentary, Don't Look Back. Fun stuff.
Posted by chuck at October 10, 2004 12:07 AM
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