Moral of the Story

No one edits my reviews, and they should.

Preview

Writing a big story about this later in the month. But for now, just an update.

Uh Oh

A colleague just pointed out that I've been sighing a lot.
Oh no, it's happening again.

Is it possible to be happy somewhere but also be going through a depressive episode? I believe it is possible.
I'm going to try and ride it out.

It's Really Hot Down Here

Of murals and men.

Sunday Arts & Living Front

Going to this show Tuesday myself, but this was the front page of Arts & Living today!

Stories

...a story about a new supermarket for people with money.

...a story about a new health initiative.

...a (non)story about a gun range.

I'm working out of Chapel Hill now, mainly because there are only two staffers in our entire Chapel Hill bureau. I like it here, even though my commute has gone from five minutes to 50.

New Project.

I know. I am obsessed with blogs.

This is freaky

Watch this entire trailer. It gets really scary toward the end.

Oh, Right!

I should work on this again.

Poor Guy

One of the more unfortunate consequences of a failing economy and rising metal prices.

Arrived Today!

Got 200 of these in the mail today. Very happy.


There's a lot of other stuff I need to write about and catch up on, but I'm exhausted, so I'm going to crash...

My camera died yesterday - without provocation. Need to get a new camera this weekend and after that, I will be posting a ton of photos. Any suggestions for some affordable options, my photographer friend? (I'm assuming I'll just get another PowerShot.)

Still Fighting It

Have I mentioned that Ben Folds is from the area?


(Somebody stab my eyes with a fork.)

Links

A blog about the previously posted article.

Hilarious

We're getting sued because we cut our staff.

Keith Hempstead
v.
[PAPER NAME HERE].; McClatchy Co. a California corp.
6/23/2008 08cvs11054

Class action. The defendants cut staff and resources for the [PAPER NAME HERE] and has hurt the newspaper. The plaintiff renewed his subscription with the newspaper because of its quality reporting, but the cuts have made the paper worse. Defendant McClatchy bought another newspaper chain and took on a large debt that has hurt its existing papers, including the [PAPER NAME HERE].

(I removed the name of the paper but you all know where I work.)

Notification Errors, Anyone?

Columbia lost all of my financial aid documents. Of course, they didn't tell me this. I had to call and ask them myself.

Ian, let's spend our year not in school traveling the world. Wait, we need money to do that.

A Real Features Story!

The headline is pretty bad, but this was enlightening in a lot of ways. [Personally, politically.]

Whoops

They gave me another review. Silly editors.

Slow News Day

But met some good people, regardless.