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Tayari's Blog: Hitting The Ground Running

Posted by TayariJones on August 19, 2008 07:36 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

Just a quick entry in the only down-time I think I'll have between now and the convocation tonight.

I am here in Milledgeville, Georgia. They put me up in the sweetest B&B ever, The Antebellum Inn. I've stayed here before and the lovely inn keeper, Jane, remembered me. If you ever stay here, be sure to ask for The Garden Room. (If I lived in Atlanta, I would drive down here just for a little getaway.) The photo is of my room. They are going to have to drag me out of here when it's time to check out!

Today's agenda involves a Q&A session with local highschoolers, 2 Q&As with the GCSU students, lunch with faculty, dinner at the president's house, and then the Convocation address. Although I should ask to be taken by to the hotel between lunch and dinner, I MUST go get a quick peek at Flannery O'Connor's home. THEN, I'll come back to The Garden Room.

Thanks again, everybody for the input on the speech. I like what I've written, but I need to practise. I am not trying to memorize it like an Easter Speech, but I would like to be comfortable enough that I don't have to keep my eyes glued to the page!

Wish me luck!

August 19, 2008 01:39 PM