Hippo Article About Me
Mar. 12th, 2005 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maisfeekai keep forgetting to post this.
It actually was in the paper on February 24th and I was so depressed about it that I didn't even want to think about typing it up and posting it. It was short, had no picture and contained some very, um... "inventive" quotes or unique and context changing rearrangements of things I'd said. It was okay, but disappointing - and the comment about my students all being assaultive and throwing chairs really bothered me.
That said, a few days later when I wasn't feeling quite so sensitive about it I would have posted a link to the website where the story was archived. Except that for some reason they didn't archive it. I asked the webmaster about it and it hadn't been sent to him. He said he'd ask the editor and if they'd send it to him he'd put it up. I never heard back and it's not up, so...
Anyway... I went to donate platelets on Monday - I've been donating there every two or three weeks for about 13 or 14 years now, so all the staff knows me (or of me - I have the highest platelet count of anyone they've had come in) - and they were all excited about the article. They said they'd put it up on their bulletin board and when I went to look I saw to my *complete* surprise that it was *not* the same article that had been in the Nashua Hippo. It had a picture, it was almost twice as long, and though there was still a fair amount of bad or mis-information, because it was longer there was also more *accurate* information. I was all excited and they told me I could bring it home - since I didn't have my own copy of it - and my dad scanned it in for me and so here it is for you to see as I'd originally promised.
Extra credit for those who can guess some or any of the things that I *didn't* say that made it into the article. ;)
(It was kind of funny - I was talking to a good friend about it and she was like, "Ok, so... I know you didn't say..." and went through pretty much everything.)
It actually was in the paper on February 24th and I was so depressed about it that I didn't even want to think about typing it up and posting it. It was short, had no picture and contained some very, um... "inventive" quotes or unique and context changing rearrangements of things I'd said. It was okay, but disappointing - and the comment about my students all being assaultive and throwing chairs really bothered me.
That said, a few days later when I wasn't feeling quite so sensitive about it I would have posted a link to the website where the story was archived. Except that for some reason they didn't archive it. I asked the webmaster about it and it hadn't been sent to him. He said he'd ask the editor and if they'd send it to him he'd put it up. I never heard back and it's not up, so...
Anyway... I went to donate platelets on Monday - I've been donating there every two or three weeks for about 13 or 14 years now, so all the staff knows me (or of me - I have the highest platelet count of anyone they've had come in) - and they were all excited about the article. They said they'd put it up on their bulletin board and when I went to look I saw to my *complete* surprise that it was *not* the same article that had been in the Nashua Hippo. It had a picture, it was almost twice as long, and though there was still a fair amount of bad or mis-information, because it was longer there was also more *accurate* information. I was all excited and they told me I could bring it home - since I didn't have my own copy of it - and my dad scanned it in for me and so here it is for you to see as I'd originally promised.
Extra credit for those who can guess some or any of the things that I *didn't* say that made it into the article. ;)
(It was kind of funny - I was talking to a good friend about it and she was like, "Ok, so... I know you didn't say..." and went through pretty much everything.)
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Date: 2005-03-13 07:28 am (UTC)