Tuesday, June 22, 2004 ::: Talkin' In Front of People . . .
. . . is something that doesn't bother me much anymore. I don't know if I have more confidence or if I just don't give a damn. Yesterday at work I gave the first of 4 or 5 presentations I have to do on Thomas Day. I think it went pretty well. The audience was schoolteachers from all over the country who were participating in this deal. It was one of the most "glad to be here" audiences we have had in awhile.
A Probably Old and Hackeneyed Expression I Heard For the First Time the Other Day:
"You'll be beating your meat like it stole something from you."
Quote of the Day:
And as they [white southerners] struggled to cope with an increasingly competitive and dynamic society, they repeatedly recalled the Civil War as the height of Southern virtue, a golden age in which southerners made undreamed-of-sacrifices in defense of a just and stable society.
I've been particularly obsessed with a Confederate monument in Fayetteville. The ladies made and raffled off a quilt to pay for it. I found a picture of the quilt in the above-quoted book:
