In the Orbit of Greatness

I am in the orbit of greatness, a fact I have long suspected. I take credit for this in the same sense that the Earth takes credit for orbiting the sun. Nonetheless like the Earth I will bask contendedly in the glow.

I define my perception of greatness thus. Any of you who have been in the car with me, around me and a radio in the morning, afternoon or evening for that matter, will know that greatness means you have appeared on NPR. This morning I was removed from greatness by three steps for the second time. The first was a feature interview with Professor Riley Smith of Cambridge University, whom I have met and was my wifes advisor while at Cambridge. That alone was enough to prompt a call to the ex. This morning marks the second time. After a sleepless night (more on that later) I am in bed, sipping coffee, trying to get the motivation to go to work when morning edition interviews a young Parisian, Clotilde Dusoulier, the author of the blog Chocolate and Zucchini. Now how can I be in the orbit of a young Parisian with a food blog? Well Katherine has a friend Katie with a wonderful blog in the sense of an American in Paris. Having read Katies blog she is flying in the face of her academic critics and is in my opinion, well on her way to her own feature on NPR. Katie linked directly to Miss Dusoulier's blog well in advance of this NPR story. This makes her a WEB Maven (read the Tipping Point people). I claim orbit of such a Maven and thereby Miss Dusoulier, although in the same sense that 2003UB313 claims to orbit the Sun, another feature story on NPR this morning.