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1:10 p.m. - September 08, 2002
An appeal
Working on the keynote address but spending more time looking out the window. [Window or door? I'm confused by which to call it; "it" is a double sliding glass door that stretches across the entire wall that lacks a covering. My L-shaped desk is perpindicular to and abuts the door itself, prohibiting entry yet allowing it to open so that often I think I'm working outside. But is it a door or window?] In the keynote I come across as an ubertheorist and behavior specialist when I'm nothing of the sort; I just know the brain's chemical and physiological properties that influence and determine learning factors by adolescents. How to marry that with successful pedagogy is what I'm trying to encapsulate in blue pill form and market.

Part of me says wing it wing wing it but that's unclenching too much too soon. Email on Friday to confirm and settle further details reveals registration at too many for me to pretend no one is there.

A practical question for those of you who are in the know: What to wear? Believe it or not, I'm concerned since

a) I don't want to be mistaken for a student;

b) I don't want to be dismissed as inexperienced;

c) I don't want to look like a youngster dressing up to impress.

To suit or not to suit? To Dockers or not to Dockers? To reflect both experience and gravitas yet not look like a Muppet. The keynote is two hours long and following that is my (other) presentation so maximum comfort, gravitas, and Eddie Bauer chic is desired. Possible?

 

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