I'll be gone for a week to Iowa

[KristyHall]

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thanks. I'll keep everyone updated if I have access to the computer

update! I just learned people from some local universities and museums will be coming to watch me to see if they will want to invite me to demonstrate with them. that pressure there. i sort of wish I hadn't been told but at the same time glad i was. I mean Id on'rt get paid for doing this. the most that might happen is i'll have my room and gas paid for, but yikes talk about jumping back into the deep end.

now a heck of an orator is wickednerd. She is the one crises services sends to ask for donations because she can weave a vibrant picture with her words. it's crazy scary.

 

[dutchhollow]

Any idea where you will be or what the schedule is?

 

[KristyHall]

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near cedar rapids

 

[ranchhand]

A very dear friend of mine often tells me, while kicking my butt, IWBF.

It Will Be Fine.

If nothing else, think Wicked Road Trip!

 

[WickedNerd]

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thanks. I'll keep everyone updated if I have access to the computer

update! I just learned people from some local universities and museums will be coming to watch me to see if they will want to invite me to demonstrate with them. that pressure there. i sort of wish I hadn't been told but at the same time glad i was. I mean Id on'rt get paid for doing this. the most that might happen is i'll have my room and gas paid for, but yikes talk about jumping back into the deep end.

now a heck of an orator is wickednerd. She is the one crises services sends to ask for donations because she can weave a vibrant picture with her words. it's crazy scary.

They only send me when no one else can do it, and I'm not that good. Just practiced and comfortable with public speaking. It comes with being a teacher. I do just about as well in the public speaking arena as your average teacher. Apparently I'm good at making people cry though. I don't think that's a good thing necessarily but I'm glad I can pull at people's heart strings a little. It helps when you're trying to collect donations for community awareness events.

You'll do fine babe. Just breathe. Eat a banana about an hour before going on stage. Apparently they calm your nerves. I don't know if it's a placebo effect but I'm not knocking it, even if I don't like bananas. Breathe some more (very important), and knock their socks off. You'll do spectacularly.

Practice in front of your chickens once. Practice in front of your mother or someone else who can actually provide criticism once. Then stop worrying about it. Prepare, but don't over-prepare. Over doing it will make you second-guess yourself.

And of course, I'll be up on the following weekend to heckle you to death. Between our fav gal pal and me, you'll be sufficiently distracted.

 

[KristyHall]

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hehe. wicked and I.. in the car for 12 hours. when we take long trips together we laugh, get into trouble, bicker, laugh some more,s pend some time in offended silence, then back to laughing

 

[KristyHall]

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thanks. I'll keep everyone updated if I have access to the computer

update! I just learned people from some local universities and museums will be coming to watch me to see if they will want to invite me to demonstrate with them. that pressure there. i sort of wish I hadn't been told but at the same time glad i was. I mean Id on'rt get paid for doing this. the most that might happen is i'll have my room and gas paid for, but yikes talk about jumping back into the deep end.

now a heck of an orator is wickednerd. She is the one crises services sends to ask for donations because she can weave a vibrant picture with her words. it's crazy scary.

They only send me when no one else can do it, and I'm not that good. Just practiced and comfortable with public speaking. It comes with being a teacher. I do just about as well in the public speaking arena as your average teacher. Apparently I'm good at making people cry though. I don't think that's a good thing necessarily but I'm glad I can pull at people's heart strings a little. It helps when you're trying to collect donations for community awareness events.

You'll do fine babe. Just breathe. Eat a banana about an hour before going on stage. Apparently they calm your nerves. I don't know if it's a placebo effect but I'm not knocking it, even if I don't like bananas. Breathe some more (very important), and knock their socks off. You'll do spectacularly.

Practice in front of your chickens once. Practice in front of your mother or someone else who can actually provide criticism once. Then stop worrying about it. Prepare, but don't over-prepare. Over doing it will make you second-guess yourself.

And of course, I'll be up on the following weekend to heckle you to death. Between our fav gal pal and me, you'll be sufficiently distracted.

my chickens!? that's a tough crowd. they bite my toes, wander off, and growl at me for bothering them on the nest

 

[ranchhand]

Sounds like a normal audience to me.

 

[WickedNerd]

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hehe. wicked and I.. in the car for 12 hours. when we take long trips together we laugh, get into trouble, bicker, laugh some more,s pend some time in offended silence, then back to laughing

With an approximate 4 am departure time, that first hour or two will be a dedicated silence on my part, interrupted with the sounds of me drinking my coffee. KristyHall will no doubtedly be her rather disgustingly cheerful morning person commenting on the sunrise and how pretty it is. I may respond with an occasional grunt and she'll ask if I'm okay and I'll give her the look I used to give my students before the first cup of coffee has been finished. That's where the bickering will come in.

Then when the caffeine kicks in and I'm on my second cup, that's when the laughter starts.

 

[KristyHall]

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good point! during this whole week i'll be working with children too and I've been kicked, grabbed and stepped on when working with children before.