Let’s just skip, hop and jump over the big chunk of time between this post and last, shall we? Safe to say it was a wonderful (emphasis on FULL) summer, and its been a crazy-awesome (emphasis on CRAZY) fall so far. But this packed schedule is the apple that’s keeping the senioritis away.
Things that’ve been keeping me from, you know, telling you what I’m up to?
1. Gauge Magazine and it’s brand spankin’ new website knowgaugebetter.com, which I would love for you to check out right here. Meredith Pomeroy is our web designer and a good friend of mine, and I couldn’t have picked anyone better to make our site come to life. Look forward to the issue, which’ll be up there in December, but in the meantime, get daily dispatches from the blog five days a week, edited by yours truly.
2. Ted Gup. As in, the former Time magazine editor, Washington Post-er, three-time author, chair of Emerson’s journalism department, and my professor. His Deep Reporting class is changing my life and the way I look at reporting. So far, I’ve found out more about my family history than any of my grandparents were able to tell me, investigated the potential health implications of genetically engineered salmon, and for my latest assignment, going not-so-undercover at Boston’s only known Bear bar (no, not the animal) the Alley.
3. Columns! Yep, I’m trying my hand at being a columnist, in Jeff Seglin‘s column writing seminar. It’s been a weird switch writing about myself instead of other people, though I’m right at home working on my latest piece, a reported column about the growing popularity of poutine (my hometown culinary love) in America. I just interviewed Poutine Guy himself, whose true identity I won’t reveal here — you’ll have to wait for the column.
4. Dance. I’m choreographing an ode to Boston in hip-hop form for Emerson Dance Company, as well as dancing in three other pieces — one hip-hop and two contemporary. I’m also officially a member of Emerson Stage as part of the cast of X-Dance, a super-cool experimental dance performance that goes up in February at the Greene Theater.
So, that’s where I’m at. There, and saving up some money for what will most likely be my Big New York Migration come the summer. Oh, and trying to have fun and enjoy Boston and my friends every once in a while I’ve still got the whole college kid thing going for me. That too.
