Good. On a recent trip to D.C. I observed some people and put pen to paper. The results can be seen at chris.areyouert.com.
Good. On a recent trip to D.C. I observed some people and put pen to paper. The results can be seen at chris.areyouert.com.
You may be familiar with updates to the world’s greatest site–areyouert.com–but today I bring you an update to another quality piece of work that’s just slightly more near and dear to my heart.
It’s chris.areyouert.com, and it has some of my more long-form writing, some journalism clips and even some broadcast links (realplayer required).
It started as a project for an online journalism class with the home page story about my grandmother’s battle with cancer. Today I added a new story (the old one is archived to the left) about a family at my church and their similar battle from a few years ago. I wrote the story in a feature writing class, and it’s probably my favorite thing I’ve written.
The last day of the Maryland Legislature was yesterday. No more bills. No more voting. Over. But one lasting question lingers: Why does the last day have to “end” at midnight?
If a bill doesn’t get passed by midnight, it’s dead, that’s it. But why can’t that drop-dead time be like 5 pm? They spent 90 days working on stuff. They met over the weekend. They met all day on Monday. What good does that extra 7 hours do? They don’t have a set number of hours to meet, it’s just a span of days. Let’s amend the system.
After all, by the time midnight hits, all of the legislators are tired, and I can attest that the journalists covering the last day are pretty darn spent as well. I also heard one legislator, who is also a doctor, say at about 1 am that he had to be in surgery at 6:30 am. Now I don’t know about you, but I would rather have my doctor out at 5 pm than 1 am the night before being involved in slicing me open. Maybe that’s just me.
In other news, it appears that I have made it into the Boston Globe. Now you won’t see my byline there, or really any mention of my name. BUT there is a reference to an article I wrote two years ago in The Crusader about some shady things going on with the student government elections.