I spent the day at the NC School Library Media Conference, which was held in Winston-Salem, NC. I went to only one session that wasn’t a LEARN function– a session on social networking that was, I think, too advanced for beginners, too beginner for the advanced, and strongly focused on the technology rather than what we should be doing with it. (But, despite the fact that I know that sell was a little too hard, and I’m not convinced that the uses are even remotely worthwhile, I went ahead and set up a Twitter account during the session, and have Twittered a couple of times today. I swore I would not use a website with such a stupid name.)

When I got back into Chapel Hill, I headed to Linda’s for a blowout, where I showed Iron Scav pictures and just generally made merry for several hours. While I would normally have used the blowout to act the fool, I was quite tame. Stupid cold. I was very well-behaved. I met Team FAT’s Toilet Paper Mummy.

Waiting for me at home was the letter I’d been hoping for all week– the summary of my degree essay from my supervisor and my second reader. In his summary, Pete used a term that struck me as particularly insightful– and I wish I thought to use it in the essay: “deceptive motion.”

My second reader was who I thought it would be. Total hunch. Maybe I should say that’s who I hoped it would be.

Tomorrow, I sit down to write my semester evaluation. Once again, Warren Wilson has provided me with an academic challenge unlike anything I’d ever experienced before, and I’m so thankful for it.