Queenkv’s Brainpickings

I found this link on Romensko’s blog: NU still negotiating to open campus in Qatar - Campus.
There are some interesting changes underway at my alma mater. I happen like the idea of expanding the journalism program to the Middle East. The students would gain so much insight and experience in that part of the [...]

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or [...]

Happy Birthday to Mark! We went to Old Chicago for his birthday lunch…Mark got lot’s of cards…including one from our baby.

Daisy writes all about it in her new blog. Yes, now the dog is blogging. We had an important conversation about safe online practices. You never know what weirdo would want to take advantage [...]

Neato. I get to cheer on the Wildcats as they take on UCLA in the Sun Bowl. It’s at the end of Dec.
SF Gate had this to say about the match-up:

“Most intriguing game, Watchability Category: UCLA vs. Northwestern in the Sun Bowl. Two explosive offensive teams with defenses that stink. UCLA is seventh nationally in [...]

Digitaltechnik posted this entry about an odd message to our Medill list serve:
Digitaltechnik: Journalist List Serve receives the most surprising Request:
A search firm sent out this email today (contact information of the firm left out) to a career list serve for PR and Journalism alumni of Northwestern University.
“I am looking for a media consultant [...]

This David dude….on Jeopardy - he’s racked up nearly $200,000 this week on the show. So I need to get on this game show and win a shit load of cash - so I could pay of my school loan…..He said he’s working on his Master’s in Berlin. Mark said he could pay for his [...]

Typicaly family pix in front of the Northwestern sign on Chicago Ave…across the street from Burger King. I posted more pix on my chicago photoblog.

from Cali…
My bro has been keeping up with the latest on Cal Bear Football, for me…and golly - it’s nice to have a winning record.
Go Bears!. I was totally thrilled by one of his e-mails with the subject heading: RE: CAL ranked #4 in the nation -Sweet! Now, I don’t follow much sports, but [...]

Nippy….
chilling inside Cafe Nero with my honey…doing some telecommuting work for Haas. Being productive…chilling….
Have the day off from Reuters.
I wonder if this would be accurate….When we visited the British Museum…we came up with some interesting zingers…

after our petit dejuner….
Mark: “..let’s make a like hijab and take off.”

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still broke…
Mark called Foxtons….he finally left the studio, with the calling card I bought and called up the realtor. He promised to refund my account.
That was five hours ago.
For some reason, it takes these people a few days before they figure out how to conduct a transaction. Maybe it’s the time change. But it’s [...]