Just found out that a friend of mine from my college paper (now at the Boston Globe) is getting shipped off to Central Asia to cover the war. Wish her well.
We reporters have a weird job: at some level, we wish for bad things to happen so we’ll have interesting things to cover. Maybe not bad things, but certainly big things. It’s my not-so-secret hope that come November 8, when I’m supposed to be heading back to Dallas from Tokyo, things are still troubling enough in Afghanistan that my employers will tell me to head for Peshawar and do some reporting. (Hey, while I’m in Asia, I might as well swing by, no?) It’s doubtful it’ll happen, but if it does, it’ll be nice to know someone else already there.