Today Bernadette had a writer come to one of her classes to speak. For about two hours the speaker bumbled a lot, filling his speech with 'um's and 'yeah's, and Bernadette told me this reminded her of me. "Oh thanks," I said. "Well," she explained, "it's just that you writers aren't always the best at actually talking. Because your main outlet for expressing yourself is through writing." I thought about this for a second and then agreed. "Yeah, it was pretty painful," she went on. "Eventually students just started interrupting him in the middle of his 'um's. Poor guy."

This is why I *write* a blog, and don't...I don't know...have a radio show or something. Sigh. Oh who am I kidding. Yeah, that's why I don't have a radio show.