Kissing and Telling

I grow laggard in my blawging.

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Swan and I had a meeting with one of the Deans on Thursday regarding the Section 3 critique.  It was quite refreshing. 

There’s always (always) a tension between open reportage and alluding to things.  In this case I feel constrained and will not communicate many of the specifics of our conversation with her. 

I can say that there’s a great feeling of compassion and energy about her, and that she has what I consider to be an appropriately broad and balanced perspective.  She not only informed us of a number of applicable threads we could follow up, but seemed really to take our own suggestions seriously, in the spirit in which they were given.  It was, oddly, or not oddly, a loyalty inspiring moment. 

I think I feel far easier with my emotional reaction to this kind of meeting than I would have even only a few years ago.  I’d have feared co-option, seized on the 10% divergence in opinion, made that a locus to define my own stance.   I grow old.  Thank god.

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I also did some informal Section 3 ambassadorial work yesterday for (yet another) prospective student who was thinking about public interest work, wandered onto campus, and wanted to know about Georgetown.  She was surprised that Curriculum B existed and was very curious about it.  I keep wondering how many of these types are out there.  I keep wondering if I’d have gone back in ‘98 instead of ‘04. . .