Other notes

I have a few random notes that I can't make into full blog posts, so I'm going to write some tidbits.

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Today a woman from Virginia told me I have an accent. To which I said, oh puh-please.

Ha, ha.

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Accents are funny. I don't travel much, and I definitely don't travel to the South much.

The word 'your' is pronounced 'yo.'

Example: "Eat yo biscuit."

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People here call their parents momma and daddy. Even if you're 80, you have a momma and daddy, not parents, mom and dad or mother or father.

I like that.

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"I lied, but I was really confident about it."

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"A few simple but carefully crafted words go a long way."

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"Eat yo biscuit."

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"If it's what you want to do, what you want to do from the bottom of your heart, then do it. It's worth it."

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"Do you want to be associated with stupidness?"

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"You don't have to use a lot of words to tell your story. Just use the right words."

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"Do what you're passionate about. Life's too short to be unhappy."

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Seriously. 

"Eat yo biscuit."

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I'm at the National Federation of Press Women conference in Greenville, S.C.

More info: nfpw.org