{"id":992,"date":"2009-07-23T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2009-07-23T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:06:48","slug":"field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I took a field trip to New River Community College<\/a> in Dublin. It was a nice and relatively fast drive over from Blacksburg. No doubt I benefited from taking the trip when shifts were NOT changing at the arsenal.<\/p>\n

I drove around the campus twice before finding a visitor’s space and parking. I didn’t meander far into the buildings, just far enough to find a catalog and some basic information on their Fall schedule.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there’s a lot more action on the campus during the Fall and Spring semesters, but I did see a few people, happily going about their business. \u00a0 I noticed an English instructor’s office, but the door was closed and the lights were out. She was obviously out making the most of the lovely afternoon.<\/p>\n

So what did I learn? It’s a pleasant little campus. I found all the glass-walled offices a little too “fish bowl” for my tastes, but there are window blinds. Probably because I had read of the Cho’s newly found medical records<\/a> in a news story, as I thought on the offices last night, the windows did make me feel a bit spooked. There’s something much more protective about cinder brick walls. I bet I wouldn’t have thought of it if I hadn’t read the story though. I thought nothing of it while I was walking around in the buildings.<\/p>\n

I did love that the campus had a large picnic pavillion beside the parking lot. Not a soul was there using it, but I could imagine that on lovely days, it would be a great place to sit and read or grade papers (especially if I can manage to get a wireless modem). It’s good to imagine yourself in the place you want to be, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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