I forgot it was Good Friday until about 3:00 PM today. Such a bad Catholic.

My first and last full day of the conference was good. My presentation went well though I did say “um” twice. What can you do? (Except improve your public speaking skillzzz!)

There was a very captivating piece on Ugly Betty, how ABC transformed it from a telenova to a weekly drama comedy. I love how America imports from other countries. There tends to be the dominant theory that everyone is taking their ideas from the USA but it the opposite is actually true. Sometimes, it’s better in its original form.

Being in Boston is a lot of fun. I came here on a school trip in 8th grade. I had my first cappucino at Faneuil Hall and I yelled at other school group because they were matching blue shirts. Gosh, I must have been so annoying. We’re staying at a hotel next to Quincy Market, so it jogged the whole 8th grade memory.

I’ve been back to the area since but stayed mostly in the Watertown/Somerville/ Cambridge area. I’m surprised at the beauty of the city. I always thought it was beautiful but its amazing to note the difference between here and NYC. Every building here seems (and probably is) historically important.

Tomorrow, we’re going to do some sight seeing. The husband wants to go to the Sam Adams Brewery and I want to go look at Boston Commons and maybe Boston College because I hear its gothic architecture is beautiful.

That’s it for now.

I’m at my quirky hotel in Boston. I’m sitting here trying to figure out the T. My hotel has some strange features. There are Trojan condoms in the mini bar. I think great for safe sex and the best place if you need them in the hurry. I’ve just never seen them anywhere beside on an RA’s door or a store or bathroom vending machine.

And the hotel charges .29 cents per page to print in the business center. BAH! I got hit by an urge to cut things out of my paper, so I needed a new copy. Would I have done that if I knew my print out would have cost me roughly $2.00…I don’t know?

I got to Boston at 5:30 and went by the conference location to catch a 6:00 panel entitled:

Composition & Rhetoric VIII: Oprah, Dr. Phil, & Letterman:

Inviting Popular Culture into the Composition Classroom

It really deserves a lot more of a detailed description than I can give it right now. It made me go back and think over my talk in my head because the panelists were all talking about teaching composition.

I’m sure some of you saw Google’s practical joke…Freaking hilarious!

This news story about an intern stealing Civil War documents from the National Archives is crazy.  I would have sympathy for him if he was stealing them because he really, really loved history but no he wanted money.  Kind of a crafty plot until well people started noticing documents from our beloved civil war missing.  (This also explains why I stay away from ebay.)

The reason I’ve been so absent is that I’ve been preparing a paper for PCA/ ACA 2007 national conference. I’m very nervous.  I’m preparing a talk about how abortion is portrayed on daytime television.

I was hoping to post some of my work but I’m way too tired for that at this point. Maybe tomorrow!