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Shows the students did last night:
Another television show thing:
By the way … that's pretty much the starting point for @IUSTVNotTooLate, which makes it an interesting thing to watch. pic.twitter.com/XXMSe0Ba7k
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) February 27, 2019
It’s going to snow this weekend. Because that’s what March is for, I guess.
Had lunch here on a gift card thanks to the kindness of a colleague.
I had the chance to use a little Spanish and a few of the phrases I remember from German and Italian as well, and all for no particular reason. Top that, rest of the day.
The rest of the day could not top that. It tried, of course. It was a game effort, but really.
I ran a 10K this evening. It was chilly, sure, but not so cold that I could stay inside:
Probably I was just after this:
Doing a little compression recovery with @air_relax after this evening's 10K. pic.twitter.com/h59mXsl9Zt
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) February 21, 2019
Not that I can talk about mileage …
The game is about to wrap up, mercifully, but @alai2016 is the real winner with that fundraising effort. Congratulations, sir.
(Somebody give him a ride home, mmmkay?) https://t.co/bGfkKGHcUL
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) February 20, 2019
If you'd like to donate alongside Aaron's efforts. https://t.co/lNBxYGb7lt
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) February 20, 2019
A television show the students shot last night:
I promised you Presidents Hall yesterday. Here is Presidents Hall:
And the view from the front of the room:
Eighteen presidential portraits are on the walls. There’s enough room for a few more presidents. I wonder what they’ll do in 20 or 40 years when they run out of wall space. Anyway, all manner of events — learned expert presentations, luncheons, weddings and, this spring, the nursing school will have graduation ceremonies in there.
Some videos our students are making. This is a late night show. Dry, college humor, unaware central player. It’s a classic formula:
And when you are finished with the season premiere of Not Too Late, there’s also the most recent episode of the Bloomington Breakfast Club. You, too, can learn how to be a DJ:
The setup seemed the hardest part. It was a substantial load-in. And, she said, she spends almost all of her time and money in record stores. Right after tearing her gear down after this interview the DJ, who is a local, was leaving town for a cruise with Kesha. No big deal.
I wish I was going on a cruise. Tampa to the Bahamas in February? That’s not the worst choice one could make.
These first two videos are some my students made. These are their first shows of the new semester; they’re getting back into the flow of things with some new crew who are coming up to speed quite rapidly. First, Hoosier News Source, a news show:
Then they produced What’s Up Weekly, which is a happenings and pop culture kind of show.
Here’s one I enjoyed today: Why it’s almost impossible to ride a bike 60 kilometers in one hour. It explains some of the effort and tech and physiology behind the fabled One Hour record:
You or I? We would not break that record. We wouldn’t even flirt with frightening it that we might fracture it.
Woke up this morning for a run. The windchill was 22. There were snow flurries. I ran through something the National Weather Service called freezing fog. I don’t know what that is, meteorologically speaking, but let’s say what I ran through fit the bill.
It fit the bill.
Here’s one of my views, from just under halfway through my run:
This little field runs down into a man-made pond. I bet it is frozen right now.
I do not know what is happening.
All of the pavement was dry. But I did run on a path next to the local middle that was iced over. It seemed a bit inexplicable. Either the soccer field above the school had been storing up a lot of moisture and released it in sub-freezing weather or some middle schoolers had a little fun in the hopes of shutting things down.
They did not shut things down; the local educators are a hardy bunch. The pranksters, or the weeping field, only succeeded in slowing down my run.
My run didn’t need the help in slowing down.
Hit a grocery store for a few essentials, and wondered once again how it is that people can’t be bothered to put away their shopping carts. It is a small store, and is most decidedly used more by regulars than one-offs. Especially thoughtful is the person who routinely parks their cart in the handicapped parking spot. You know who was really appreciative of that soul? The elderly lady who climbed out of her SUV while I was moving that cart. She had to shuffle around the frozen snow piles on her cane, because she couldn’t park in the handicapped spot.
That’s at least the third time I’ve seen that happen there. I’m counting now. Last time I saw a guy actual leaving his cart there. It was a nice move, seeing as how he was in his work truck, covered in company livery, at the time. We had a pleasant conversation about it. For my part I complimented him on his ability to at least push the cart away from his own quarter panel.
Anyway, in the studio tonight:
Meredith, Caroline and Andrew have the latest stories and weather covering campus and town. That episode should be out in the morning.
Tonight I visited a tailor because there are alterations to be made to pants and, really, I needed the new adventure. Two pairs of slacks are getting taken in, and they’ll be ready for me next Tuesday. Whereupon I might take a few more pairs of slacks, as well. It was, as you might surmise, a great big ol’ party.
The nightcap was spaghetti and zinc and vitamin C chewables. And if I stop this here, I’ll have established a trend of finding my way to bed earlier and earlier.
