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From: SSG Hodges
Date: 10/13/03
Time: 6:35:33 PM
Remote Name: 64.26.98.20
Thanks for your questions. Yes, I still feel there's more intimacy in speaking to a small group. There's "pleasure" in both. With the larger crowd, you become more of a "perfomer," perhaps that's the word. I once jokingly told someone it's the closest I'll ever come being to a "rock star" in the sense of "working" a huge crowd. On the other hand, there's naturally going to be more "contact," and perhaps a connection, with a smaller group. However, that wasn't always the case because folks would often come up to me afterwards to discuss a wide range of questions (often I thought it was just their attempt to feel some personal connection to the performance they just witnessed.) As far as your other question, I think that it wasn't so much a realization as a survival mechanism: by having an introductory opening memorized -- and a closing -- as well as other structures to my public siloquy, it ASSISTED me in performing better. As to when that happened, I would guess that it was an on-going process. The longer I did it, the more things that I did to make my job easier...better...and more professional. Hope that answers your question.