I’ve had an interesting day today.\u00a0 Solidly ten miles of construction related stop and roll traffic on I-40 and getting lost multiple times for maybe an hour and a half or so after getting off of 40 behind a sorry set of directions from Google Maps to NCCAT (for my money, Mapquest remains the superior online directions assistant) yielded one extremely late, hot, tired and frustrated Kenan Fellow.<\/p>\n
But when I arrived, circumstances began to improve immediately, as is always the case when you know you’re involved in something good.\u00a0 The NCCAT staff were welcoming and helpful.\u00a0 Kenan Fellows staff were reassuring regarding my tardiness.\u00a0 It was easy to fall into the sessions and figure out what was happening and how to fill in the parts I’d missed.\u00a0 Oh yeah, and teachers.\u00a0 My people!\u00a0 Being surrounded by folk who, day in and day out, during every working moment, must demonstrate unending patience for the late, the hot, the tired and the frustrated was exactly what this flustered Fellow needed just then.<\/p>\n
Now look at me.\u00a0 On top of everything, I’m blogging!\u00a0 Per a late email request to the faculty at my school (Fuller Elementary in Raleigh), I’ve been receiving responses to help me create the list of words to describe the most well known features of my personality.\u00a0 Not a single colleague listed “luddite” to describe me, but they all know it applies.\u00a0 Information technology and I have a hate\/hate relationship, and I somewhat resigned to be a carburetor guy in a fuel injected age.\u00a0 Nevertheless, thanks to the good folk who work hard to make the Kenan Fellows program happen, I have a blog!\u00a0 I can’t wait to post cool stuff from, not only my awesome internship but all things related to my fellowship, as well as stuff from the Elementary Science Education realm.<\/p>\n
I think I’ll leave the rhetorical question as this post’s title.\u00a0 But if I had to give my blog site (is that what you call it?) a name, it might be “The Blogging Luddite!”<\/p>\n
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