{"id":573897918,"date":"2025-04-07T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897918"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:11:39","slug":"back-from-old-dominion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/back-from-old-dominion\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from Old Dominion"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are back from the conference, and I will now try to get back into the regular routine. Two conferences so close together, and at this high-volume stage of the semester … It will probably take weeks, if it ever happens at all. The nice thing is that Wednesday is group presentation day. We’ll learn about 10 new countries and I don’t have to do the prep work. <\/p>\n

Why, I may as well go to another conference! Or back to Norfolk. The views were lovely. <\/p>\n

This is from the VIP lounge atop the conference hotel. We aren’t I, and hardly VI, but we found ourselves sneaking in using the argument that we are, in fact, Ps.<\/p>\n

The guy working the desk at the VIP lounge didn’t care, either way. It was as if knowing of its existence was the password. And so we had commanding sight lines of the waterfront.<\/p>\n

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So we went back another time. Because they also had some pretty good cookies.<\/p>\n

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They also had a clip-art-photo-ready conference table. We sat around that and enjoyed our powerful position dominating the skyline and talked about … nothing of importance. It was great.<\/p>\n

We had a great view on Saturday evening, too, at a business meeting. As the discussion of the mass communication was discusseed, you could look right over the table and see this view behind the speaker.<\/p>\n

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Being on the water does have its charms. <\/p>\n

We drove home yesterday. All of our friends caught their flights — indeed, we took one to the airport — outside of which I saw this modern art masterpiece.<\/p>\n

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Some of them made it home on time. Others got diverted because of weather, but they are eventually got in safely. And we’ll see them again next year, I hope. At least once a year is better than once every seven. <\/p>\n

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go come up with some presentation ideas for next year’s conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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