I never was a runner.
I played basketball in high school, something with which I’ve kept up a bit. I wasn’t a runner.
Still, I am – fairly early on – throwing my hat in on this year’s Broad Street Run, the busiest 10-mile run in the country, to be held this year on May 3, 2009. Who is with me?
Continue reading Broad Street Run 2009: I'm joining, are you?
Talk to me in a few weeks. I ought to be some sort of expert on the global energy industry.
Largely on the back of my internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal and my blogging experience in a variety of venues, I am proud to say that I’ve gotten a gig blogging on the energy industry for BNET Industries, an industry-news provider and subsidiary of CBS Interactive.
That means I have a steady alternative revenue stream – for the time being. It isn’t full-time, so no health insurance, but for a freelance journalist, it’s a golden gig to get some steady money (more tips like that in a future post).
My FriendFeed has made it to this site.
This will interest a very small portion of my very small readership, but it’s Sunday, so I’m OK with that.
In my About section, I have added a Lifestream, via my FriendFeed. For those who understandably don’t know what the Hell that means, well, just about everything I could ever do online is automatically generated in one place. That way you can follow me in multiple platforms. …For both legitimate and illegitimate purposes.
Continue reading My Lifestream: Everything I do online in one place, here
ChristopherWink.com was always meant to be my professional Web site, where I blogged about the interests and experiences that involve being a young journalist today. I decided I needed a place to display my more personal experiences, particularly pursuing My Life To Do List. I am announcing the soft launch of that site today.
When I was 13, I sat down in my bedroom of my parents’ home in rural northwest New Jersey and I composed a list of 26 things I had to do before I died.
From time to time, I have updated it, so that the list, now in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, is a more than 300-item syllabus for my life. It still governs the choices I make and experiences I want to have. It’s where my money goes and dreams lead.
Continue reading My Life To-do List: A Web site to chronicle my obsession
Currently I am abroad, video podcasting at WeDontSpeakTheLanguage.com: A video podcast and blog about traveling the world for the young and broke. Follow me there, but also continue to enjoy regular posts here at ChristopherWink.com about the plight of a young, aspiring journalist, which will appear below this reminder.
Continue reading We Don't Speak the Language: European Exploration
TODAY I AM LEAVING TOWN in a Subaru. An older friend and I are headed to White River, South Dakota (Google Maps), just north of the Rosebud Lakota Reservation, to which I’ve gone each of the past two years, including an initial trip with a Temple University service group.
We’ll do some community work, meet with friends, learn and I’ll be sure to clear my head.
I am done with my college career and have my graduation looming.
Indeed, I am returning on May 21, the day before I am set to graduate. Asking for trouble, I know. We’ll see.
Anyway, don’t you worry. This baby will keep cooking, as I’ve forward posted lots of stuff I have been meaning to get up here. What you can be sure of is that it won’t be on anything breaking.
Be well and good thoughts.
The tallest building in Philadelphia – the Comcast Tower – fully opened this month, just in time to meet plans for it to be surpassed.
Earlier this month, plans for the American Commerce Center, planned to be the second tallest building in the country behind only the Sears Tower in Chicago, were announced, exciting everyone, and the talk is spreading.
There has been plenty of speculation about where Barack Obama will be tomorrow.
It has been announced that he will be speaking somewhere in Philadelphia, but the location has been kept limited, for reasons I don’t entirely understand. The speech has been described as a major address on race in politics, so expect historic words.
Still, I have been granted the privilege of reporting on his appearance tomorrow for The Temple News. All will be posted tomorrow afternoon. Check back for coverage.
See him in Philadelphia last May below.
The Obama plane will be landing shortly.
In an email to supporters, Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged that – enough with the suburbs – the big guy is coming to Philadelphia. A press release that was released from his campaign today read as follows:
Chicago, IL – The Obama campaign announced today that Senator Obama will campaign in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Further details will be announced as they become available.
Sen. Hillary Clinton was at Temple University today, and I was on hand, taking photographs for The Temple News, though I won’t have them posted until tomorrow morning. I will additionally post some video clips of the speech.
Next week, Barack Obama is coming to Temple.
As Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s importance increases with its primary coming April 22, we will see plenty of the two candidates in the Quaker City.
