So, Hilary set me up for this interview dealie with CBS-TV.  Suffice it to say that I was a little nervous — if the prospect of being on national TV wasn’t daunting enough, I also wanted to make sure that I was well-spoken and also said things in such a way that they couldn’t misquote me or punch in (or out) at an inopportune time and make me look like an ass on TV (as if I need any help with that).  It actually turned out to be pretty low-key, with just the cameraman showing up — the producer asked me questions over a speakerphone, and the cameraman set up a light, with a piece of paper with a smiley face on it taped to the pole for me to focus on so it would look like I was being interviewed by someone just off-camera.  That said, I also had a bit of an audience, since CBS wanted to tape at my office so they could shoot footage of me working on a desktop computer, so a few people gathered to watch while the whole thing was going down.  So when I said something like “It’s not my place to tell them to get off,” leave it to one of my friends to burst into laughter and say, “You said ‘get off.’”

I work with 9-year-olds.  And I couldn’t be happier, especially since I’m one of the instigators.  And today is Thursday, which we’ve declared Sexual Harassment Day — not anything having to do with prevention, Thursdays are the day when we specifically try to commit sexual harassment… though sometimes it spills over into Friday as well.