CultureGrrl Teaches What She Preaches

I’ll be offline for a couple of hours, while I reveal the sacred rites of arts journalism to a class of middle schoolers. I’ll be talking about the process of producing my Wall Street Journal article about the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston—from conception to publication.
Although this may be of dubious educational value, my classroom stint will allow me to tell the Columbia School of Journalism, where I recently applied for a job as a professor of arts journalism, that I have teaching experience! (Does student teaching when I was in college count?)
Meanwhile, if any of my faithful fans have pull at the J-School, now’s the time to put it to excellent use. But if you do, please don’t tell me: I might feel obligated to write good things about you for the rest of my journalistic career, and you know how hard it is for CultureGrrl to be nice!