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Name: Jessica
Country: United States
State: South Carolina
Metro: Greenville
Birthday: 6/16/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: politics, news, reading, movies, Gilmore Girls
Expertise: Editor-in-chief of "The Paladin" newspaper
Occupation: Student
Industry: Media
Message: message me
AIM:  jessileanne3
Member Since:
4/17/2003
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| I'm probably going to discontinue this thing soon. It was mainly ramblings for high school and early college, and since I'm about to be a college graduate the things seems to never be updated unless I'm procrastinating (which is today) or have something deeply profound to write. Plus, you can find this on google, and I don't want prospective employers doing that. Not that i really have anything to hide.
Update on my life....
Back from Africa. it was amazing. That's about the easiest way to sum it up. If you want more elaboration, I'd be happy to provide as such. But I'm changed forever. And that's cliche, but not a lie.
I graduate June 2. I start work June 4. Quick turnaround, yeah. I'm the Program Assistant for the Institute on Political Journalism this summer in DC. Basically, I'm supervising 70 aspiring college journalists and helping plan programs for them, speakers, site visits, and helping with their internships. Should be fun times. Plus, it's paid and I get free housing in Georgetown. Sure beats going back to E-Town.
I've gotten into every grad school I applied to, although Univ. of Maryland is being slow and won't give me an answer, but I should get in there. But, I have definitive yesses from Northwestern University, University of Missouri-Columbia, and American University. Leaning toward Northwestern, which I'm going to visit this Thursday.
So there you have it. College is coming to a close. Not sure how I feel about that. Sometimes I'm ready for it, and sometimes I'm just like "ehhhh...." | | |
| So I realize that I haven't updated this in a very long time. I'm not even sure if anyone reads it anymore, and my sole purpose of even having xanga was really to keep up with people in E-town, but facebook seems to have satisfied that goal for the time being. I'm only writing now as a way to procrastinate writing my Congress paper. It's still weird being home, even if for a few days, and do work from Furman in my room. I have my Furman life and my Elizabethton life, and when the two intersect, well, it's just too weird.
But yeah, now I'm a senior in college. Remember how, when you were a senior in high school, the question everyone asked you was "So where are you going to college?" I got off too easy on that one, and am paying for it now. I knew from December of my senior year that I was going to Furman, and it really wasn't that hard of a decision for me. I applied to UT, Milligan, and Furman. As long as I got enough scholarship, I was going to Furman. Well, four years later, the path isn't that clear. But, it seems I finally have a semi-plan for those of you who care. It should be obvious to people who know me, but come June, I'm moving back to Washington, D.C. I'm going to try and find a job as soon as I get back from spending January and February in South Africa, but even if I can't--I still have a plan! I'm applying to Public Policy Journalism Graduate Programs at both the University of Maryland-College Park and American University in DC. Both are one year programs and focus solely on political reporting. I would be done in plenty of time for 2008 elections and can spend a year in DC freelancing and shoring up jobs for after I graduate with my master's. It's much easier to make job contacts while in DC as compared to SC.
This term is rapidly drawiing to a close. If I don't screw things up, I may just have a 4.0. (that's what not having to balance a full courseload with running a newspaper will do to your grades haha). Then it's off to Africa for two months, then back for three last months as an undergrad at my beloved Furman with my wonderful friends before we each part our separate ways come June 2. It's scary, but I'm just now beginning to get a little bit excited about what the future holds.... | | |
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Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
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| Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Trials
I would just like to pull this from that NYTimes article:
The courtroom was, surprisingly, not full, but among those in
attendance, there was no doubt that they were witnessing a historic
event, a definitional moment in the ever-shifting balance of power
among the branches of government that ranked with the court's order to President Nixon in 1974 to turn over the Watergate tapes or with the court's rejection of President Truman's seizure of the nation's steel mills, a 1952 landmark decision from which Justice Kennedy quoted at length.
And who was in that courtroom? *raises hand* Today was amazing.
And for the first time ever Clarence Thomas actually read an opinion
from the bench. Just that alone made it a historic day.
And after the decision my editor called and told me to go cover a press
conference about Medicare in Dirksen. I'm about to enter to go through
security, and a car pulls up, and John Kerry gets out.
Then, on my way back from work (my office is a block from the White
House), I'm trying to cross 16th St. to get to the metro, and a police
officer waves everyone trying to cross back on the street. Actually, it
was more like screamed at us. The barrels partioning off Pennsylvannia
Avenue (1600 Pennsylvannia anyone?) and about 7 black SUVS drive
by, followed by a black limo with presidential flags. Um, hi Mr.
President and Mr. Japanese Prime Minister. Have fun at Graceland!
I love my job and this city.
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| End of week one in DC. I thought I loved my job last summer, but UPI is
absolutely amazing. My first day I got to go cover a press conference
about Darfur with the UN Deputy Secretary-General and the U.S.Deputy
Secretary of State for Africa. Tuesday was a conference on
Palestinian-Jordanian relations with the former Jordanian Prime
Minister and the former Palestinian Authority Interior Minister.
Wednesday I went to a briefing on the Hill about biofuels/ethanol,
headlined by World Bank President and former Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Yesterday was House International Relations
Committee Hearing on African small businesses, and today was a half day
as I finished up stories. I've gotten three bylines so far. BUT next
week, I'm covering the International Global Development Summitt. Not
only do I get to INTERVIEW Madeline Albright and possibly Colin Powell,
but the President is speaking and I get White House Press Credentials.
Exciting times! I LOVE being a Washington reporter!
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