I think it was my 7th grade teacher that said you haven’t really mastered the English language, or any language for that matter, if you aren’t familiar with the idioms.

On the left is a “sans serif” shirt from Veer. I’m a big fan of Veer, but they’re really outdoing themselves with captions like “Adorn yourself in a T-shirt that says simplicity in a truly lavish way.” Clever. A couple of Christmas-es ago, I thought about buying friends their own domain, granted I’d provide them hosting. I thought it’d be perfect. This year, I’d like to think I’m become more practical. Maybe look for these shirts in your stockings. Anyway, these thoughts are totally irrelevant to my intended entry, but pictures embedded next to text makes things infinitely more interesting.

I’ve been feeling uneasy as of late. You would think that with another hurdle crossed and another goal met, I’d be more confident. Not. at. all. This isn’t an early concession note, though. I am very honored (and bewildered) about getting the columnist job. But, come on. I cannot even write a full paragraph, let alone a full sentence sometimes. (Just kidding, kind of.) Now, I will have to start being more cognizant of what I say, how I say it, and who I will be saying it to–which is UCLA’s ginormous (Made up words oftentimes work better than real words; why do you think they were made up?) undergraduate, graduate, post-doc … student body. It doesn’t help that the Daily Bruin is one of the most circulated papers in LA. William Forbes, who obviously went on to create Forbes, was a DB Editor-in-chief.

I am in a perpetual state of awe of the company, past and present.

I feel like Maureen Dowd as her fellow columnist, Paul Krugman, won a Nobel Prize. Does that mean I have to aim for a Pulitzer now? I may as well be a pebble next to Mount Rushmore or something. Time to up the ante. Find provocative stories. Tell them something they don’t know. THINK THINK THINK. At least I will have my humble blog to fall back on lest I don’t meet my lofty goals. Pulitzer, please pick me (in the near future).