best of procrastination 2003

Tonight I finally gathered the columns I had been meaning to pick for about a month, cut them out, pasted them on letter sized sheets of paper and dropped them off at the post office to enter for a $1,000 scholarship in a competition. Naturally not everything went smoothly…

I had known about this competition for a few weeks already but had been so busy that I kept postponing picking the columns and doing the tedious clipping chore.

So tonight I had to go to the Tampa International Airport as the entry had to be postmarked March 1 and all other post offices had closed already. The only one that was still open was the one at the airport. So a friend and I hauled ass after finishing at the paper at quarter past eleven and raced to the airport.

Like most thing I do lately, we cut it pretty close, but in the end everything went alright as the envelope was postmarked March 1, at 11:58 pm and 33 seconds.

Just in case you were wondering, here are the columns that I picked as the best 5 of the last year (March 1, 2003 until Feb 15, 2004):

Fitting Sept 11. Coverage hard to come by

Get connected, not hardwired

Finding the right balance for the media

Bill of Rights has to apply to all trials, including Al-Arian’s

Global warming cannot be edited away