sometimes i get a major sense of de ja vu around here...it's little things that remind me of morgantown. for example, i'm assigned to cover the chapel hill area, which is a college town (just like morgantown). there are a couple smaller towns close to chapel hill called carrboro and hillsborough...which are the equivalents to westover and star city. university of north carolina's president announced in september that he will leave office in june 2008...now, the search committee has been put together to find the next president. i just covered hardesty leaving WVU and Garrison coming to WVU. and you know how the Riverside condominiums is the big controversy in morgantown? well here, it's a development called Carolina North.

funny how exactly the same completely different places can be!


you've all probably seen this before, but never ceases to amaze me:

Turns out the human brain doesn’t always see spelling...instead, it recognizes patterns:

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they can do all the reasearch they want and give all the scientific reasons they want as to how it's possible for me to read that paragraph and understand it, but it's still pretty amazing if you ask me.

moving on...

i think i've been officially southern-ized because i am officially addicted to sweet tea. i never drank it until i came to NC and now, i can't get enough of it!