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June 01, 2006
Reader for fun (?) and profit
A couple of months ago academom told me about this opportunity for summer work: reading Advanced Placement exams for a company called ETS. So I logged in, applied, and voila, here I am in not-so-sunny Orlando for a full seven days exploring the writing skills of would be advanced placement high school students. Pretty ‘citin’ stuff!
The afternoon thunderstorm arrived just as we did. We flew through it about ten miles north, or maybe east, of the airport, and then it followed us in. When it rains, it means it. Glad I found that plastic poncho before I left this morning. So far, everything on the trip has gone well. Flights were pretty full but good, on time and short. The layover in Charlotte was just about an hour, which was fine. Charlotte is a nice airport, in what appear to be really pretty country I’d like to explore more someday. I didn’t realize there was so much wine produced in North Carolina. I visited the Biltmore Estate on my move from Washington to Syracuse four years ago, where I found some of the best wine I’ve every had. I brought two or three cases with me to New York, but it is long since gone and I can’t get more without traveling south. That’s a good reason just by itself, but it appears that there is a whole wine industry here that bears touring. So now I have one more trip to add to my list of things I want to do someday.
Headed now by bus to Daytona Beach, where I find out what’s in store for the rest of the week. Stay tuned!
Posted by cageyer at June 1, 2006 02:56 PM