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In other news.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

The masters’ project: turned in this morning. As with so many things, not what we originally envisioned, and not as good as we might have imagined … but it’s done, and the yeoman’s work we put in over the last two weeks shows, I think. Our advisor seems to genuinely think we did [...]

Running to stand still

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The treadmill of the second semester here has been ratcheted up several degrees of incline and had the speed noticeably increased. I’m feeling mentally breathless. Lots of projects and pieces are coming together at the very last minute, and while this hasn’t bitten me (badly) yet, I’m just waiting for something to completely [...]

Director, reporter, music-picker

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Uptown Radio: 2/29
I directed today’s broadcast, and had a piece in the first half. Aside from one bobble only someone on our staff would detect, and one audible bobble (when the second newscaster jumped the gun and came in early) the show ran remarkably smoothly and precisely to time.
In the heat [...]

Our first of thirteen

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The tech staff(*) at the J-school are still tightening the bolts and applying a chamois to the site, but here’s the link where you’ll find my Radio Workshop class streaming, live, our hour-long radio show, every Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. EST:
http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/radio/news/index.asp
You will not hear my voice on today’s show, as I’m Senior Producing [...]

Productivity tip

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

It’s amazing how much laundry one can do and how much soup one can make when one is avoiding doing the 72-hour take-home open-book law exam one has to do.