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Wine & The City, Part II

October 25, 2011 eating out

Whenever I think of a wine tasting lounge, I envision a small, solemn group of tall, thin individuals dressed in black. They sit in a row at a long, skinny table with a few bottles of wine in front of them. They very gravely pour a few droplets of wine into their crystal-clear glass. They [...]

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Life as a Student Journalist

April 5, 2011 eating out

You know, journalism is a very unstable field to be in these days. With all the new technology and the low or non-existent salary for journalists (a-hem, Huffington Post), journalists are expected to work harder, faster, and better—yet increasingly underappreciated and unpaid. Yeah, I know some journalists deserve the bad rap. But I still agree [...]

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Confessions of a McFoodie

February 3, 2011 My story

If I haven’t been around the blog world much, it’s just because I am drowning in work. I will groan and moan about my back-breaking schoolwork some other time (ah, you just can’t wait, can you!), but today, I just want to make a few confessions. I think I’m a foodie. And a lot of [...]

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Crazy-Ass Pizza

January 24, 2011 My story

This weekend was mad busy. It really wasn’t all that hectic…it just felt that way, because I had a long list of things to do that just got pushed back day after day and I’m the kind that panics when things don’t get done way ahead of time. For one of my first assignments for [...]

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To Speak a Dream

January 19, 2011 My story

During the first day of my two reporting classes, both our print and broadcast professors asked us what we wanted to do for our journalistic careers. One guy said his passion was sports, and that he wanted to anchor sports games while managing several sports channels, magazines, and blogs. He works 16 hours a week [...]

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Blown Away. But Still Here.

May 12, 2010 Uncategorized

I am. Blown. Away. By all your sincere and empathetic responses to my last post. To be honest, my finger quivered a bit before I hit the “publish” button. I don’t know what I was nervous about: Exposing an image of myself when I was soulless? Sounding too evangelical? Being potentially triggering? But now, I’m [...]

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