{"id":573880398,"date":"2010-09-02T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880398"},"modified":"2010-09-04T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T06:42:10","slug":"theres-a-football-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/theres-a-football-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a football in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few days have been … mildish. Given the recent weather the upper 80s were delightful. Over the weekend we actually enjoyed a day of weather that, in comparison, seemed almost cool. And, yes, Deep South, September. I understand. We have this conversation often, The Yankee and I. These are perfectly natural temperatures here, I remind her.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t make you sweat less.<\/p>\n

But, today, we returned to a heat index of 97 degrees at one point. I like summer, but there comes a point in September when it just begins to feel cruel. We’ll reach that point in a week or two, the point of Rubbing It In. The point of Oh, Really? The point of biology where the body says “You know, there’s no more sweat to be had.”<\/p>\n

And suddenly a subarctic lifestyle doesn’t seem like a bad idea. That’s when you walk into a restaurant’s cooler and realize “A little more summer might not be so bad.”<\/p>\n

Spent the morning<\/strong> researching media effects. Had a meeting with one of my committee members to start discussing my comprehensive exams. He’s such a cool guy. Very kind and energetic and incredibly intelligent.<\/p>\n

So naturally we talked about NASCAR and iPhone applications.<\/p>\n

At Samford<\/strong> I had a meeting with the new editor. She’s getting ready to run her first issue of the newspaper next week. The online editor joined us to hammer out a few policies for the new year.<\/p>\n

We turned it into a teleconference, which turned into a site re-design project in the next few weeks. And from that conversation a lot of exciting things will happen. It was an enthusiastic afternoon full of a great deal of promise. We’re looking forward to new partnerships, bringing in more news outlets to the site, breaking more news on the web, adding more sports and more.<\/p>\n

It’ll be a good year.<\/p>\n

Traffic? Not so great. Eight miles of construction to get through, all of it behind this guy:<\/p>\n

\"Not<\/p>\n

Soon after I passed the buses carrying the Florida Atlantic football team. (Later<\/strong>: FAU blocked a UAB field goal attempt on the final play to win, 32-31<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I also saw this guy:<\/p>\n

\"Tailgaters\"<\/p>\n

Temperatures or not, that’s the first sign of fall. Football is here!<\/p>\n

In fact, there are five games on my television tonight, so if you’ll excuse me …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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