About
When I was five and in class, I colored a gorilla blue.
This became a source of great concern for my teacher and
school officials.
"Gorillas," they told my dad in a meeting to move me into a
"special" class, "are not blue."
I stayed in the regular class.
Since then, I've stumbled through high school, spent three and
a half years as an editor at the weekly college paper at UMass
Boston, and interned for four alternately terrifying and awesome
months at the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau.
In D.C., fearful of causing a stock market crash, I'd stay at the
office late into the evening, while tackling heady topics like the
efficiency of earwax removal kits and trade adjustment
assistance for potato farmers. The latter, apparently, has
actually gotten into an economics quiz guide. I kid you not.
(And since the U.S. economy's kept humming along, the world
can thank me now for not screwing up, preferably with buckets
of money and CNN anchor Carol Costello.)
Currently: Loping towards graduation from college and
freelancing on Beacon Hill and in Dorchester.
I still color gorillas blue.
When I was five and in class, I colored a gorilla blue.
This became a source of great concern for my teacher and
school officials.
"Gorillas," they told my dad in a meeting to move me into a
"special" class, "are not blue."
I stayed in the regular class.
Since then, I've stumbled through high school, spent three and
a half years as an editor at the weekly college paper at UMass
Boston, and interned for four alternately terrifying and awesome
months at the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau.
In D.C., fearful of causing a stock market crash, I'd stay at the
office late into the evening, while tackling heady topics like the
efficiency of earwax removal kits and trade adjustment
assistance for potato farmers. The latter, apparently, has
actually gotten into an economics quiz guide. I kid you not.
(And since the U.S. economy's kept humming along, the world
can thank me now for not screwing up, preferably with buckets
of money and CNN anchor Carol Costello.)
Currently: Loping towards graduation from college and
freelancing on Beacon Hill and in Dorchester.
I still color gorillas blue.
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