tell me this girl doesn't look like margot

pics from dinner with laurie and mike



at balthazar, a swanky french restaurant in soho (my mom paid for us all to go)

at ñ, a soho bar

i met with my thesis advisor last week, telling her the many many problems i've been having choosing a topic. after unleashing my woes, she looked at me and said, "are you a shy person?"

am i a shy person?

i do hate doing interviews, and i'm very sensitive about asking appropriate questions. but does my reluctance translate to being shy? laugh if you will, but she was definitely implying that i need to grow a backbone to be a better journalist. lame.

excerpt from RW1 midterm evaluation:

"Lisa is an energetic reporter, a lively writer, and a critical thinker who has managed to make some important inroads into the difficult neighborhood of Chinatown from the outset. She has made steady progress since the beginning when she was writing thinly-sourced stories that made one unchallenged point (thanks, hardboiled -- ha!). She is now ferreting out multiple sources, such as she did for a complex immigration tale surrounding ESL classes. I count on Lisa to bring a critical news sense to class discussions. ... She has an instinct for the unusual, for the unpredictable. As I alluded to above, she struggles with finding multiple sources in order to tell a full story, rather than just a piece of it. ... Needs more showing and less telling. She needs to step away from personal opinion more and enter the world of larger analysis in order to truly tap into what will distinguish her as a first-rate journalist in the weeks ahead."

WHOOOOOO!
lisa's first byline: a.k.a proof that my parents aren't wasting $50,000

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steven email of the day
From: "Chung, Stephen"
Date: Tue Oct 12, 2004 02:47:26 PM US/Eastern
To: Lisa
Subject: RE: A washingtonpost.com article from: ******@columbia.edu

dont forget to eat salad

annoying columbia j-school kids in the news.

steve talked me out of going to boston this weekend for the basic conference at the last minute. he convinced me by saying that if i didn't go, we would do whatever i wanted to do all weekend. so, it was a weekend of sleeping, eating, and watching tv. whooo!

my prof. used my lede as the class example (again). my roommate says that i am one of the favorites of both of our professors, which is NOT my intention at all. seriously. i'm totally the scowling girl slumping in her seat in the back. but i guess i'm not the worst writer in the class.

steve and i saw michel gondry speak last week. that was ok, it was hard to understand what he was saying.

i spent three days last week temping at steve's work (tfa) tediously making binders. but at least it's some pocket money.

laurie visited. will post pics later.