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:: Friday, February 07, 2003 ::

Blogging live from Dallas
Today I find myself in the luxurious Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. This place is tres swanky and the food is ridiculously overpriced, but when I finally got checked in around 3 p.m. yesterday I was famished so I ordered the cheapest thing on the room service menu: a Caesar salad for $9.50 (plus the $2.50 delivery charge, plus the 17 percent gratuity already added on for my convenience).

I'm here on business, in my role as a member of CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In about an hour we'll begin rousing rounds of rhetoric regarding the big issues facing education today (read: budget cuts) and what, if anything, can be done about it (read: much hand-wringing and/or sturm und drang). Perhaps one thing we could do, given the tight budget situation in much of higher education, is stay at less posh hotels -- maybe even find one that's not far from a coffee shop where I could get two eggs, over easy, with bacon, toast and coffee for, oh, say, $3.99? (Of course, I'll get reimbursed for the $14 caesar salad, and this morning's overpriced breakfast, but still, I think we could be a bit more frugal as an organization.)

:: Andrew 07:58 + ::
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