If I am, it’ll be in the second half of the hour.
The segment is a report about Dan Brown’s blockbuster, The Lost Symbol. It mainly involves showing viewers various locations around Washington that figure in the book. But — assuming I’m not left on the cutting room floor — every now and then things will switch to this female English professor wearing a blue scarf and holding forth on what it means that this thing sold two million copies in its first week.
This was UD‘s first outside interview — Jeffrey Brown and I stood in front of the News Hour‘s building in Virginia on a hot windy afternoon and chatted. I don’t think I was very good… Something about being outside, maybe? I don’t teach very well outside, either. Nothing sounds right to me. There are many distractions. Anyway, I wasn’t at my best.
But, you know, another media thing, and UD loves media things.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:49PM
I’m sure you were lovely in blue!
I always refuse to meet a group of more than 5 outside – that’s because 6 of us can sit in a semicircular bench in the rose garden in our grounds. More than that I can’t handle.
I was never on sitting on one end of the log with a student on the other. Give me marble.
September 25th, 2009 at 9:42PM
Does this mean you can teach a "special topic" course in symbology?
September 26th, 2009 at 8:33AM
Hadn’t thought of that, Chas. I’m an expert now…