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7
Mar 15

Where you learn how the picture craze started

Slept in, by a great deal. I was going to go ride my bike this morning, but my body had other plans it seems. I slept in by a lot. I’ll probably be asleep early tonight, as well.

In between I did see an 11-inning baseball game. And I had Aubie take a selfie for me.

Aubie

A lot of people don’t know this, but if you look at those two words you should be able to figure out who invented the style. Aubie –> Selfie. He’s a man of many talents.

I also cleaned a corner of the office this evening. And I sorted through some stuff in the garage. If you’re interested in any of that come back tomorrow, I’ll tell one of those stories then.


5
Mar 15

Happy birthday, mom

If you drew it up, you’d want a mom to be the best person and mother she can possibly be, and then work ridiculously hard to be just a little bit better still. Moms give us all invaluable lessons and impossible standards. Good thing, too.

Mom

And many more … Especially since I am now, somehow, outpacing you in the birthday department.

One day I’m going to ask why I’m looking the wrong direction in this picture.


1
Mar 15

Catching up

The weekly post that adds pictures that you haven’t seen here yet. I’m not sure why I explain that. According to this I’ve written this post for more than three years now … Anyway, to the photos.

My view of Atlanta from the ninth floor of the Ramada. This is actually by the elevators. The view from my room was more fitting: a parking lot and freeway.

These chairs didn’t look comfortable, and they weren’t comfortable. Until they were. This is hard to explain. But I’d had four hours of sleep the night before, so that may have something to do with it.

My rental van. I parallel parked this brick beast. Only because the space behind me was empty at the time.

Some of our Samford students listening in on a panel, about Ebola, I think.

No one has explained this to me yet …

This flatiron is the Hurt Building, built between 1913 and 1926 nation’s earliest skyscrapers. It was said to be the world’s 17th largest office building during construction.

Now this is a light fixture. This is in the student center at Georgia State.

So we go through all of the awards, there are about 30 of them, and finally there’s the College Journalist of the Year award. They start at number 10 and we work our way up. This was around number five, when Sydney was realizing she was still waiting to hear her name.

She placed third in the College Journalist of the Year. She’s a print person through and through and, happily, has an editorial job already lined up for after graduation. She’s going to be great. She also placed fourth in the multimedia journalist category and won the sports photojournalism onsite championship. It was, she said, her first basketball game.

Allie has been hanging out with me all day.


28
Feb 15

Home at last

We are back from the conference.

SEJC

The above picture is from one of the three panels I sat in today. One was, basically, on student media troubleshooting. This one was about the difficulties student media are having at Tennessee State and Delta State. At TSU they’re getting stonewalled by their administration, at DSU, the entire program has been cut. These are bad scenes. I also sat in on a sports media panel, which was a lot of fun.

I’m exhausted. I ended up judging four categories, which cuts into your sleeping time. I think I’ve had 17 hours of sleep since Wednesday morning. So when I looked at the time and thought I’ll be asleep before 9 p.m. I was fine with that.

These guys are awesome:

SEJC

That was the funny pose, of course, from Friday night. We left Atlanta this afternoon after receiving awards in the Onsite Journalism Championships:

Page Layout Championship: Honorable mention – Emily Featherston
Copy Editing Championship: 3rd place – Halley Smith
Sports Photojournalism Championship: 1st place – Sydney Cromwell

Hey, I’ve got the laundry started and I’ve had dinner. If you’re not exhausted, you’re doing it wrong.


27
Feb 15

Best of the South journalism awards

SEJC

Full awards:

Best College Video News Program: 9th place – SNN
Best College Magazine: 3rd place — Exodus
Best TV Journalist: 9th place – Yvonne Gross
Best Newspaper Layout Designer: 7th place – Grace Miserocchi
Best News Graphic Design: 6th place – Amy Wilson
Best Magazine Layout Designer: 5th place – Kaitlyn Bouchillon
Best Sports Writer: 4th place – Sam Chandler
Best Arts & Entertainment Writer: 4th place — Jimmy Lichtenwalter
Best TV News Feature Reporter: 4th place – Cherie Olivier
Best Multimedia Journalist: 4th place – Sydney Cromwell
Best Magazine Writer: 3rd place – Jonathan Adams
Best News Writer: 2nd place — Emily Featherston
Journalist of the Year: 3rd place – Sydney Cromwell

Photo by Samantha Nelson.