I spent two days last week “live blogging” and lived to tell the tale.

Live blogging is blogging an event while it’s happening. It’s that scene of young people—usually guys—sitting in the back of the room, furiously typing away at their laptops during Bush’s State of the Union or the Scooter Libby trial.

I’m not your typical live blogger. I am a woman. I have a newspaper subscription. And I didn’t know the term “live blogging” until I was half-way done with my first gig as a live blogger.

Read more of this latest dispatch of “Pushing Off” here.