off to Nashville

• Since the League is focused on community colleges, so is the conference. It will be so nice to be surrounded by thousands of professionals who are aware of community colleges, appreciative of the community college mission, and familiar with the teaching conditions of community colleges. I get so tired (and yes, offended) by the attitude I encounter at many conferences and in many journals that community colleges are somehow an embarrassment. As if those of us that teach there do it because nothing else was available.
• I’m hoping to find out more about Camtasia and Second Life. I’ve dabbled with both, but I’m no expert and am excited to meet some people that are experts.
• I need a vacation. I know a conference isn’t really a vacation, and I tend to inflict very long days on myself at conferences because I don’t want to miss anything, but being in a hotel and coming back at night to no housework, not having to make dinner, not having to even make my bed will certainly feel like a vacation in many ways. The conference is in Nashville, which I’ve never been to, and I’m looking forward to exploring a new city a bit.
• The plane ride there and back will give me just enough time to read Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which I’ve assigned for my Women & Lit class.
• Amy and I are presenting on audio essays, and I'm sure the session attendees will have ideas and questions that cause me to rethink what I'm doing or complicate my thinking in productive ways. I love complications.

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