Comments | pinkpropoganda: no more career-speculation, thank god

pinkpropoganda

no more career-speculation, thank god

Jan 30, 2004 23:14

So I woke up at 5 am today and went to the Toronto Star workshop. Real journalistos, whippet-thin and edgy, talking and cursing...it was fabulously exciting. I won't pretend to be all cool and blase about this....it was enlightening, inspiring and everything else that you would expect ( Read more... )

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Re: pinkpropoganda January 30 2004, 21:18:54 UTC

people from the Varsity were there, and one of the reporters (Robert Cribb, I think?) asked why the Mike wasn't there!
I personally don't think I could continue in academia simply because I don't have enough interest in one area...I just think my thesis would be awful.... Like "Guerilla Warfare and Samuel Coleridge's Poetry" or something.

heraclitus January 30 2004, 21:17:52 UTC

Journalism: Because You're Not Pretty Enough To Be A Whore.

Every journo I've met, talked to, or read about is in the field either to change the world or because they think it's a springboard to becoming a famous novelist. They are all completely wrong, of course.

Me, I'm considering robbing banks in Tucson for a living these days.

Re: pinkpropoganda January 30 2004, 21:19:54 UTC

Owch!
Well, I considered burlesque dancing as a career for awhile, but don't have the boobs or thigh muscles.
I'm serious.

Re: heraclitus January 30 2004, 21:21:30 UTC

I didn't mean you in specific, but I'll tell you what: next time I see you, I'll shove a finsky down your pants to make you feel better.

Re: heraclitus January 30 2004, 21:22:26 UTC

Also, I want to get high. You?

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stevos February 1 2004, 12:54:42 UTC

good for you langer! i'm glad gausted backed off...but when he's gone you'll have to contend with claude i suppose. but you know what, from my experience, he's not as tough to level with as most people think. the AMS can seem very intimidating but in all truth, all structures have a bit of way to give. and in the end they're far more satisfied with substantive harmony than poor quaity discordance...if that makes any sense, which it probably doesn't.

Re: pinkpropoganda February 1 2004, 18:10:29 UTC

that makes perfect sense, and is very comforting to hear...thank you dear.
Yeah, I'm still scared of Claude, but he's old......and.....old. right.