I hope it wasn't the Diane Rehm show
It's Susan Stamberg. Not that I can tell any of them apart but Terry Gross. Well, also enough to notice that if the interviewee seems to be black, so does the interviewer. Blech.
They had an interesting story about a journalist who wrote about a boy who trainhopped from Honduras to the US to find his mother in North Carolina. As part of her research she retraced his steps, riding on the tops of freight trains all the way up Mexico. She also spent time with him in northern Mexico while he was trying to get in contact with his mother and find a way across the border.
It left me a little conflicted. She said she tried not to affect the story, and didn't want to help anyone unduly. So, unless someone was in grave distress (like her titular subject not going to eat on any given day), she just watched and wrote. Minor distresses, like people begging, were ignored. If she did intervene in a large way, the recipient disappeared from her story.
It's the journalist's way, she said.
And she used the word schizophrenic to mean conflicted, internally inconsistent, contradictory. Which irritates. If one was using the accurate definition of schizophrenic, what would it mean when used to describe, say, a situation?
If one was using the accurate definition of schizophrenic, what would it mean when used to describe, say, a situation?
Split from reality, if I trust my googling hand.
ION, I want to remind people who care about it that Newsradio season 3 comes out today. I am excited to spend my Friday night introducing Bob to "Arcade."
Yay, Newsradio. DVDs are a-shipping!
I am excited to spend my Friday night introducing Bob to "Arcade."
Either a TV geek or using code.
Split from reality, if I trust my googling hand.
In theory that could apply to her assertion, but she went on to frame the situation in binary conflicting terms, so she gets a black mark from me.
Today is the day of the hapless. I swear, every so often, I get a client who just seems to hit every single bump in the road, swallow a few bugs and get a flat. Not a particularly clueless indvidual, they're just getting snagged by every possible weird little thing.
I'm not even sure what Paczki is, but it sounds good.
A professor just asked me in an email what I do "in real life." I assumed he meant for work, but... heh.
A professor just asked me in an email what I do "in real life."
Real life is what we do when we're not kravving or thinking about krav. I'm not sure what it could possibly be for non-kravvers.
IRL I am a SUPERSTAR!
ION today is going decently but not great wrt my stupidhead moodiness. I think I am going for ice cream soon though to try to snap me out of it.
