November 2010
2 posts
Hillary- I applaud you.
Towards the end of the Shirley Temple version of “Heidi”, Fräulein Rottenmeier attempts to sell Heidi to the gypsies as revenge for helping her charge Clara learn to walk. When I was little this scene frightened me- I was terrified that my grandmother who didn’t like me would sell me to the gypsies. Years later I am still frightened by this image, but not because I worry about my grandmother...
No more nightmares.
My entire life I was raised in a culture (Mormon) where the rules and roles for men and women were very well defined. Often I thought they were too well defined. But as I’ve grown up, and the value of a dollar has gone down, I’ve started to realize that the roles I was brought up on…well, they just might not all apply anymore.
The roles I’m talking about are specifically...
October 2010
7 posts
GOP Women
I am without a doubt a true, loyal, lifelong, forever and ever Republican. And now that I’ve said that, I feel I would be doing myself a disservice if I did not follow that remark with a geez louise- what is it with the forefront GOP women?
In a recent New York Times article the author was poking fun at GOP women by commenting on how being ignorant is cool for the GOP females.
In a recent...
Unmarried
For a long time I comforted myself in the fact that the only people my age who were getting married were Mormons. That lasted for a few years. Then I got older, and the non-Mormons started getting married.
Once the non-Mormons started getting married I comforted myself in the fact that the these non-Mormons were the type to marry young. That they were religious, or marrying their high school...
Code of Ethics?
A code of ethics? Yes, that was the title of the next document to be signed. It was my first day at my 3rd internship of 2010 and although unpaid, certain to be treated poorly, and the newly designated “go fetch girl,” I was promising to endorse and abide by their code of ethics.
Maybe if I weren’t 24, if I weren’t in graduate school, if I hadn’t done my very best to follow the straight and narrow...
“We live in a dirty and dangerous world…There are some things the general...”
– Katherine Graham
Debt to Humanity
For sometime now I have felt the debt I owe to humanity weighing heavily on my shoulders. I know, ridiculous. I’m 24, healthy, without debt, and I haven’t had anything hard- in fact I’ve kind of been given everything. Which means, for anyone who is familiar with the parable of the talents, I owe a lot.
And it seems that the time to pay up is quickly approaching. I would guess...
An Ethics Officer?
Everyone, I would assume, is familiar with the reference to “HR” or at least to it’s mention in “The Office.” And while I have never been quite certain what an HR person does (I’ve actuallty always pictured them as elementary school counselors “sexual harassment- Jimmy don’t do that”), I was even less familiar with the role of the ethics...
September 2010
9 posts
For anyone feeling blue- and by that I mean stuck... →
The Examiner
6:30 a.m. realize I’ve overslept
6:50 a.m. finish sprinting around the house and take my place at the kitchen table- diet coke in hand (first one of the day)
6:55 a.m. drive to slug line
7:00 a.m. pick up both The Examiner and The Express for my morning metro and slug reads
Clearly there is nothing significant about my day so far, nothing in the least. And, in all likelihood the rest of...
20 something
Why is nobody interested in having high school kids play high school kids? The insistence on having high school characters played by the 20 somethings really just gives me a false sense of security thinking that “hey I look good.” But the truth is I look like every other 20 something. That those “high school kids” just look like they’re 20 something, not that we 20...
Catalina Camia
Political editor for USA Today Catalina Camia spoke in class today!
The Wednesday
Hump day is often considered the half way point. The day that hosts the ick of the Monday, but is free of any sense of rest. In fact, by the time I get to my Wednesday I am often so tired that I wake up thinking just where did Jessie Spano (sp?) get those caffeine pills? (Hello “Saved By the Bell”) And wondering at what point I can drink a sugar free red bull without allowing a...
First Assignment: Cry...a lot
My first assignment at GWU, and I have writers block. Serious writers block. In fact, not only do I have writers block where I can follow my typical fashion and solve everything with a pint of halfbaked and re-runs of “The Nanny,” but where the more I think about it the worse I feel.
As mentioned earlier, I am obsessed with the 20-somethings. And, being obsessed I re-read the article...
Gosh Darn Orange Peel
Does anyone else hate peeling oranges so much that they’ve almost given up on them altogether?
NYTimes- "What is it about 20-somethings?" →
20 something
Recently it seems more and more articles are surfacing covering the all too enticing topic of the 20 somethings. Several of these articles are the product of The New York Times, some the spawn born in response to the New York Times. Form wherever they were born, there are certainly many. And I am obsessed with each.
Perhaps that is because I am a 20 something in the midst of my quarter-life...
May 2010
1 post
“Sometimes, the best thing to do is nothing at all.”