Entries from January 2007

January 18, 2007

Back to school

Classes at NYU resumed this week. I’m taking Reporting Social Worlds, the Book Proposal (both of which are in the Journalism department), and a course in the Museum Studies department–Latin American Art in U.S. Museums.
The reading list for Reporting Social Worlds is pretty dreamy: V.S. Naipaul, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe and the like. [...]

January 10, 2007

Video Interlude

I know that in the world of YouTube this is ancient material, but it just never gets old. (One continuous take!):

January 7, 2007

Regarding the Struggles of Megan

The single thing that I dread most upon returning to New York is the six-storey schlep up to my apartment. On this particular occasion, I had a bag that was literally half of my weight. (Books, always books.) Ah, but this time I was in luck: I happened to reach the door of [...]

January 3, 2007

Bonne année!

The fabulous Daryn Woodson (and self)
Happy New Year!!! I’m oddly optimistic about this year, if for no other reason than that 7 is one of my favorite numbers. 2003 worked for me by the same logic, so I figure…
I’m about to leave for New York in an hour and don’t have much time [...]