Know Who You Are and Who You Aren't

I wrote a story on the head coach of the UNC Bear's baseball team, Kevin Smallcomb. I really thought that this was the easiest assignment that a teacher or an editor could assign. A-day-in-the -life story is what it is called. Why did I think it would be so easy? Well, all you do is hang out with the person you are writing the story about, ask some questions to the subject and the people that he interacts with during your time with them and then write about what happened. Easy, right? Should have been.
So here it is. I listen to a lot of sports talk radio and there is this radio show host named Sandy Kluff. If you ever listen to him, then you probably know what I am talking about. He comes off as pompous and all-knowing. He goes off on these analogies that, to me, just sounds like he is trying to show everybody how smart he is. And don't get me wrong, he does seem smart, but he is mostly over the top.
That is kind of what I did with my story on Smallcomb and I didn't realize it until I got my paper back from my professor. When I finally did realize what I did, I was kind of mad at myself because that is just not me. I am glad that it happened now because I can make sure that I don't do the same thing in the future instead of becoming another Sandy Kluff.