Numbers and a phrase

46... The number of undergrads who signed up as interested in the speech team today (beyond the 10 returnees we have on the team already).  Not gonna lie that this number freaks me out a little.

29...The number of people who came to the kick-off BBQ for Miami Christian Grads tonight!! (28 signed up for the listerv besides the 4 of us coordinating everything).  This number excites me!!

So tonight I gave the welcome/vision for the group that we are starting (technically reviving I guess) called Miami Christian Grads.  While preparing my thoughts I targeted "academic-minded people" who would be facing philosophical questions over the next year.  However, like I teach in my COM 135 class, I should have considered my literal audience which consisted of Sports Org grads, College Student Personnel, Speech Pathology, etc (much less philosophically focused programs)... 

So when I quite seriously stated:  "grad school causes you to ask questions like whether God is a Foucault-like panopticon social construct.........."

THEY ALL LAUGHED.  OUTLOUD. 

I told them they would know what that meant after their first year of grad school.  Unfortunately (or fortunately....depending how you look at it), the probably won't.  Don't think they cover that in Sports Org.

EDIT:  After recounting names it was 56 who signed up in addition to the 10 on the team....so yeah, 66 total.  yikes.

Welp, still blonde

So it's the FIRST day of the class I'm teaching this semester.  Haven't even introduced myself yet.  Just trying to get people warmed up to one another and used to speaking by asking a "highlight of their summer" as I call roll.  Typical Miami student responses.........."I spent two weeks in France," "I interned in London," "I studied in Luxembourg".....  Perhaps it was the trend of a few student in a row sharing study opportunities through Miami that caused me to respond the way I did to one student who stated "I went to Miami of Florida."

I asked if that was an extension campus I was unaware of.

She explained it was referring to the city of Miami. 

Annnnnnnndddddddd if they haven't yet been one of the six-thousand-some people introduced to the Office Prank YouTube video....................bye bye credibility.

I felt major pressure to redeem myself today so taught the classical roots of ethics.............I think it went well   PHEW!

Top five signs you are at a baseball game with debaters:

5. When standing in line for food, someone behind the counter comments the campers talk quickly.

4. The campers proceed to establish that they can talk much quicker than their order by reading a piece of evidence at the average (yes, the average) debate speed of 435 wpm (top debaters speak 7-9 words per second).

3. They had the evidence on why aid should be given to sub-saharan Africa in their purse.

2. I look around the section I’m sitting in and see 5 Harry Potter books open on laps during the game.

1. On the busride home, the camper beside me uses the light of his phone to casually read Zizek (a very complex philosopher) in the dark while simultaneously singing to the radio.

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