http://collegiatediversion.today.com Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:14:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In response to Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2009, Scrutiny Grows as U.S. Pays Staffers’ Student Loans: My first installment “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to live here anymore” - - - House and Senate aren’t as smart as they would have you believe! I was flipping through the ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/06/27/wsj-article-im-mad-as-hell/ I got to work three hours early in Providence, not having read the email from Chris from the night before saying, don’t come in until noon. Go figure. So after groaning about the situation, and the lost sleep and the cup of coffee that still had not hit my system I ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/06/25/sort-of-an-eventful-morning/ I was wondering if I would ever become so jaded. Sat in on the editor’s news meeting this morning, and all the guys were joking back an forth. A husband threw his wife out the window in Worcester. They were in an argument as he watched the game, she wanted to ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/06/24/reporting-on-a-death/ SO GET THIS: looking up new music on youtube because it's slow at work and I'm waiting for Chris to give me the go-ahead on my pitch for why Twitter is a good idea for RadioOpenSource (I mean, I think TWITTER is narcissistic junk for the most part, and it doesn't work ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/06/23/some-investigative-journalism/ Why is it so difficult to convey the message of happiness over the message of sadness in art? You presented to me tonight, the realization that so much of art is pure angst. Like those photo catalogs, you said. And I know what you mean. It’s like, a photo of a ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/05/23/just-a-thought/ I really love being alone in your apartment. Not as much as I love being with you in your apartment, but you have to trust me that it’s really nice. I like wearing your sweat pants, almost as much as I like the way you fix my eyes with a tissue after ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/05/06/untitled-for-now/ We joked on the way down here that it’s called Killadelphia. But I know some guys now who would think differently. They would say “this is Realadelphia” and the people you meet just tell you how it is. You can call me “Boston” all you want, it won’t change the way I ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/04/25/there-are-an-unbelievable-number-of-matchbooks-on-the-city-sidewalk/ I don’t really consider myself to be a lingerie kind of girl. I have indulged on a few occasions, in the clearance aisle at Marshall’s or at a vintage clothing store, skuzzy I know. While garter belts post-20s era are pretty impractical, I don’t wear them very often and I like ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/04/10/the-lingerie-ethics-game-a-code-enforced-by-a-messy-culture/ I wish I could have coffee with you now. And tell you how spectacular you look. And how I’ve missed you. And how I think I may have figured out so much about myself tonight. So I have to tell you everything in such grand detail. Like we usually do. The Izzys, this journalism thing. ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/04/01/typing-your-report-of-the-events-that-began-and-followed-henceforth-yestyping-your-report-of-the-events-that-began-and-followed-henceforth-yes/ A word on humiliation. It’s a feeling I feel in my stomach and in my toes, even in all years that have passed. It’s just this tight, quick feeling, like how could I have let that happen? I recite the typical mantras: “know who I am,” “I’m secure,” “that was ... http://collegiatediversion.today.com/2009/03/26/humility-and-the-pedophiles-and-my-one-happy-realization/