Tonight should be fun: I get to go give a lecture to a doctoral class filled with a bunch of school administrators training to someday be superintendents. My assignment: tell them how to get along with the press. It’s always fun lecturing my elders, but I wonder how I’ll fill an entire hour with variations on “Stop lying to us quite so often, please.”
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30 March | 22:49 | Karen
So...how did it go?
01 April | 14:27 | josh
Fine -- they'd acknowledged their web of deceit by 20 minutes in.
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