more available time than i expected to have.

i’m making real progress in all this reading for school. which is good since class is friday/saturday/sunday, and then i leave for a week in beautiful fucking orlando FL which is one of my least favorite places in the world (arlington heights IL is on that list as well).

i’ll be at the national ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) conference for the week. doing a bunch of work on e-learning in the corporate environment — research and schmoozing, mostly. woo. i think we get tickets to shrek 3-d too. woo-woo.

nonetheless, i do have one high point next week: i get to feature at the Broken Speech Slam on thursday night, june 9, before i leave. so…if you’re near me in FL, come on down and say hi.

for more info: http://www.brokenspeech.com

see ya…fun stuff regarding changing views of the study of american history call me…

while at a friend’s house studying.

i’m reading a book by CLR James on american culture as it relates to the struggle between individualism and social integration. great stuff if a little heavy on the marxist interpretations.

my classmates, via e-mail, are peppering each other with questions about what the hell the book is even about.

gonna be an interesting class — especially with 6 fundamentalists out of 12 students.