Brownbag

Not trying to stir any jealousy here, but we've got a brownbag at noon wherein Anne Hull will grill David Maraniss about how he does what he does. Maraniss, if you don't know, and I'm sure you do, has done some stunning narratives off national events, like this after Sept. 11.

He also edited Hull and Dana Priest's Walter Reed series: Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility, and The Hotel Aftermath.

He did this one after the Va. Tech shootings: The roommates crossed paths near the bathroom door at 5 in the morning. In the Monday darkness, another school week at Virginia Tech was about to begin. Karan Grewal had pulled an all-nighter to finish his accounting paper. His eyes were bleary as he saw Cho Seung Hui, in boxer shorts and T-shirt, moving around him to get into the bathroom. No words were exchanged, but that is how it always was with Cho, the silent stranger among six guys in Suite 2121 of Harper Hall. Cho, or Seung as his suitemates called him, never looked you in the eye, rarely changed expression, would just walk right on by.

I'll throw on some notes later today.