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Hey! I'm Stirling Radliff. This is my... somethingth... year at Green River. I don't remember. Anyway, I've been working for the paper since Winter of 2009. I started as a - more or less - "beat" for the OpEd section under Justin Runquist, my predecessor. After nearly a year of working as a commentator - to distinguish that from being a reporter, as they are very different - for him, not to mention Casey Greer, the former Edior-in-Chief, I was hired be our current Editor-in-Chief, Nicole Swapp, to manage and edit the Opinion/Editorial section of the newspaper.
I think, for sure as I could be, working for the paper is about the second funnest thing I do at Green River. Unlike the majority of my fellow editors, I'm not an English major, it isn't my first interest. Rather, I'm, by whatever humble or holy standards, a musician; I'm a "classical" - though some might disagree - pianist and composer with a knack for classical history. For what it's worth, my favorite composer is Sergei Prokofiev, though that's often apt to change; it used to be Dmitri Shostakovich, and before that Beethoven, and before that... Anyway, as journalism is the second funnest thing I do at Green River - a sterling position, indeed - I enjoy about everything I do here. Writing. Awesome! Forget the mistakes and student-like unawareness of "english writing rules." It's a form of expression just second to music, in my opinion. I take delight in expression. About the same, I enjoy editing; it's kind of relaxing, one might say therapeutic, after a long day of boring and stressful classes. Socially, I find luxury in the whole atmosphere that goes with being an editor; friends made in the newsroom are wonderful, fun, as are some of the reporters.
After Green River, I plan on transfering to a school that I find interesting or reasonable that accepts me with the credentials I have at whatever time when I apply, which might be anytime now. Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle is a place I've had an interst in for quite a while now, and the University of Puget Sound, UT Austin, or USC... It's a fairly open thing. From the University-of-Wherever-I-Go-To, I plan on getting whatever high degree I can get my hands on, which could be a Masters, or maybe a PHd. Hopefully, with whatever degree I do get, I won't have to teach; it's irritating.
I think, for sure as I could be, working for the paper is about the second funnest thing I do at Green River. Unlike the majority of my fellow editors, I'm not an English major, it isn't my first interest. Rather, I'm, by whatever humble or holy standards, a musician; I'm a "classical" - though some might disagree - pianist and composer with a knack for classical history. For what it's worth, my favorite composer is Sergei Prokofiev, though that's often apt to change; it used to be Dmitri Shostakovich, and before that Beethoven, and before that... Anyway, as journalism is the second funnest thing I do at Green River - a sterling position, indeed - I enjoy about everything I do here. Writing. Awesome! Forget the mistakes and student-like unawareness of "english writing rules." It's a form of expression just second to music, in my opinion. I take delight in expression. About the same, I enjoy editing; it's kind of relaxing, one might say therapeutic, after a long day of boring and stressful classes. Socially, I find luxury in the whole atmosphere that goes with being an editor; friends made in the newsroom are wonderful, fun, as are some of the reporters.
After Green River, I plan on transfering to a school that I find interesting or reasonable that accepts me with the credentials I have at whatever time when I apply, which might be anytime now. Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle is a place I've had an interst in for quite a while now, and the University of Puget Sound, UT Austin, or USC... It's a fairly open thing. From the University-of-Wherever-I-Go-To, I plan on getting whatever high degree I can get my hands on, which could be a Masters, or maybe a PHd. Hopefully, with whatever degree I do get, I won't have to teach; it's irritating.
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