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I try not to get too personal on this here blog.  Its intent is to give a glimpse into life as a grad student at Medill–not simply to be a forum for my brain sludge and/or musings. I am breaking with that goal for today. Today was a full day.  We held funeral services for [...]

On Friday, I was the “extra” web editor, meaning I was effectively in control of what showed up on the Medill Reports home page. Things didn’t start out great. Without going into details, the concept of “extra” web editor was new–and I was the very first to do it.  Needless to say, some quirks need [...]

So as I’m walking to class this afternoon down Sherman in Evanston, a guy runs the opposite direction of me, holding a  full Starbucks coffee and trying not to spill it while wearing a North Face winter coat. Mind you, it was about 60 degrees out today. I was laughing to myself about where that [...]

It certainly has been a while since the last post.   I’m not sure if you’d call what I’ve been doing as busy, but it’s been something.  For the entire week, I had to dogsit for my older brother, who was on vacation with this wife in Canada.  I didn’t think it’d be a big [...]

The Huffington Post has a fun little article about the dissillusioned experience of a former journalist-cum-unemployed-person entitled “Down, Not Out:  Laid-Off Journalist Tries the Back-to-School Strategy.”  It’s an interview with Jennifer West, former editor of FT.com.  Essentially, journalism chewed another person up and spit her out.  West’s path in life has changed, and it shows [...]

Indeed, it has been a little while since I last updated.  Luckily, the busy season of grad school something-or-others and nice weather seem mutually exclusive.  This is a good thing.  Rather than having to spend an inordinate amount of time poring over paperwork and details, I get to golf and do summer-y things. Aside from [...]

Keeping in line with my complete ego-mania, I’ve received my first real compliment about what’s being accomplished here on the site.  As if I needed any help having a big head.  Ha.  But seriously, it’s good to know somebody thinks I’m doing something good. — I found your blog after typing in some words about [...]

I feel a little sorry for anyone who actually sits down and asks, “Gee, I wonder why there haven’t been many updates recently on this site?”  In case there’s someone like that out there, I’ll try to quell the rumors. First, I have been trying to work more in my free time, if you’d like [...]

Not that it makes a helluva lot of difference to the average person, let alone anyone who stumbles upon this site from Google, but the school I worked at last year showed up in a Spanish news report on television.  Chances are, you won’t understand what they’re saying (that is, unless you speak fluent Spanish), [...]