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Things I like: Planning trips Planning a book proposal Freelancing Cooking for friends Radio class & Regional Conflicts class Thinking about life after graduation Things I don’t like: Not being excited by NYC Feeling bored/powerless Being impatient about many things Dealing with said emotions Other classes Writing about stuff I don’t care about

Hey kids, fire up your mp3 players — here’s my first radio piece (2 min 9 sec) on Koronet Pizza — we had to do a profile of a place for my Intro to Radio class. It was a lot fun to do. 🙂 Comments welcome!

Despite the fact that Toland Grinnell told me that Terminal 5 was reopening, I went out to JFK today and discovered that it was closed. 4 hours wasted. Sucks. While out in Ozone Park, I bought a roti at a Trinidadian place and a Solo soda. (I love the image imprinted on the bottle — the side text reads: “High in Quality”) And in what could be some very good news Prof. Freedman is interested in my book idea, which…

In the Nov. 2004 issue of Oakland City magazine (pages 18, 22). Check it out here.

Seymour Hersh (The New Yorker) and Jonathan Schell (The Nation) spoke tonight at a panel discussion moderated by Bruce Shapiro (The Nation, Salon.com, Yale University). Apparently there you were supposed to register, but I didn’t know that until I arrived with a guy from my RW2 class that I met on the subway, who had registered for himself and another one of his classmates that he was with. When we arrived at the door, the people at the ticket table…

Aaron, Vishal and I have started a new politics-focused blog. Come check us out here: http://thepartyline.blogspot.com/ Or add us as an LJ friend here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/partyline/ Comments/questions/discussion and guest-posts welcome!

[14:19] AaronSw> yeah, a minute ago or so someone said “the reason cyrus’s piece about podcasts was so good was because cyrus is a blogger” or something like that

It’s Friday afternoon. I’m here waiting for my number to come up at the Apple store in SoHo. My iPod is on the fritz, and my iBook crashes when I plug it in. Bad news. Meanwhile the new version of Thunderbird is not totally perfect yet and decided that it wanted to freeze when I would type an email to people. So most of the time here was spent trying to figure out why that was, checking the support forums,…

The simple fact is this: Kerry spent record amounts of money, collected the endorsements of basically everyone except Chuck Norris and still lost to a guy who talks like he’s giving a sixth grade report on something he didn’t study. “Mr. President, how do you feel about Indonesian President Yudhoyono’s recent actions in regard to International Monetary Fund lending policies?” “The thing about Indonesia is it’s got a land area of one point eight million square kilometers and its main…

I was going to do a story on this new art installation at JFK for Wired News, but a quick Google search revealed it was shut down a month ago. Damn.