Meet Your New Freelance Assistant Editor, Laura Northrup!
We have a new tipline czarina, Laura Northrup. She'll be digging through your emails to tips@consumerist.com, thanking you for sending in tips, and pushing good stories to the editors. In due course, she'll start contributing posts, too. We snagged Laura from the Albany Times Union, where she assisted consumer reporter Dan Higgins with his columns and posted on their consumer advocacy blog, The Advocate. A reformed professional librarian, she also owns several hamsters and has been known to engage in cheeky cross-stitching. Please join me in giving her a big Consumerist welcome!
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Awww, that is so darn cute! Welcome! Looking forward to benefitting from the fruits of your labor!
well hello!!! I love you love of hamsters as I have 6 Guinea Pigs!
Point of Fact: We Librarians Never Reform. Once you get your MLS, you're in for life, no matter how much you pay to get the tattoo removed.
My upstairs neighbor! :D Hi!!
I miss having Laurie as a co-worker, but I'm glad you hired her. She's smart and funny, and has top-notch research and blogging skills. Congratulations, guys. You made a good decision.
Naomi Seldin
http://blogs.timesunion.com/simplerliving/
Hello!
Also: your hamsters and glasses are both cute.
@Taliskan: The world is small.
Welcome to the jungle! Just kidding, can you imagine if I was like that?
Welcome Laura! :) That's a very cute hamster!
Yay! Welcome!
Hammy love!
welcome
Please define "cheeky cross stitching..." oh, and welcome!!
I have no idea what youre talking about, so heres a girl with a hamster on her head
Hello Laura!
I hope you have a good time reading through the emails of the Consumerist!
(Oh, and the login button is back! Did you make it come back by letting it pet one of your hamsters?)
I see I'm not the only one who has accepted our hamster overlords.
my friend's guinea pig was just killed by his 2 hamsters & when he pulled the body out of the cage, the hamsters had gnawed a hole in his head & ate his brains!
word to the wise: keep the hamster away from your noggin.
BEWARE THE ZOMBIE HAMSTERS!
Hey Laura! I welcome you and your hamster. :)
Welcome :) im looking forward to reading what you have to post!
Welcome, Laura!
Does Albany Times Union know "The Advocate" is a gay issues magazine as well?
Welcome Laura!
Welcome, Laura.
Hello there, friend of mine! <3
If "reformed" is what you're telling people, I'll fully support the claim. Welcome to 658.812.
Welcome to our little virtual-town Laura! May you and you hamsters find peace amidst the posts... = )
Welcome Laura! As a librarian who used to live in Albany, I feel an instant kinship....
You don't look like anyone to be messed with. Congratulations landing a writing job - I understand doing so is tough these days.
Hi! Hamsters FTW! :D
Hi and welcome :)
Not easy, especially since I just had knee surgery and cant walk for 3 months! I clean the girls cage (i have 3) every week because they pee the most. The other cages (2, 2 boys and 1 alpha male all alone) i clean every two weeks.
The hardest part is dealing with their non-stop WHEEKING!!! Holy moly do they have me trained.
@Dafrety:
Not easy, especially since I just had knee surgery and cant walk for 3 months! I clean the girls cage (i have 3) every week because they pee the most. The other cages (2, 2 boys and 1 alpha male all alone) i clean every two weeks.
The hardest part is dealing with their non-stop WHEEKING!!! Holy moly do they have me trained.
@Dafrety: Burrito Night.
Welcome, Laura.
Welcome, Laura's hamsters. I look forward to many, many more inclusions of rodents on Consumerist.
I also look forward to a multi-tiered bracket featuring various Consumerist columnists' pets, although a Twinkles* vs Captain Duvel Moneycat cage-match face-off seems (gratuitously) inevitable. Tragic but so long as there's copious video, well worth the sacrifice. I recommend training Twinkles to scatter Perfect Oatmeal across the Octagon floor as a feint before she draws her hamster-sized daggers ("Aww, lil' bitty knives held by a lil' bitty hamster, so cute - OWW! Oh gawd my fingertip's gone, my fingertip is gone!")
Oh, as your status being a former librarian, I expect to see lots of rapped knuckles when commentators misuse "its" vs "it's". We need order, discipline and grammar, delivered in a tight sheath black mini-dress.
* I'm assuming "Twinkles" is a valid hamster-type name.
...So is "Poopy" but it's too easily confused as an adjective.
Welcome, Laura! I hope you enjoy your new job.
Welcome to Laura and her human. :D
Wait, is that a hamster or a Guinea Pig?
I for one welcome our new hamster overlords. Oh, and Welcome Laura!
Aw nuts, somebody qualified applied for the job. And here I was hoping they'd hire me based on my offbeat sense of humor.
Seriously, congrats and good luck!
Welcome!!!
Which one is Laura?
Aaaaaaahhhh I kid! Welcome aboard. Hope you have a spamfilter.
Welcome Laura!
Yeah for hamsters!
Ugh this reminds me of the time I took home the class hamster for the weekend and my neighbors dog ate it.
Sigh, welcome anyways.
Any chance we can get a tips twitter or AIM name? I only ask b/c it's a pain to log out my one gmail account to go to the other to post a tip. Yeah, I'm lazy sometimes.
y helo thar.