Oh, dear. She’s serious. Here’s what I found, and it’s rather prescient:

Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism/ My Story: Jackie Spinner

Here is my postcard from the edge. Dateline: the Washington Post. Summer 1997. I spent three weeks in Army boot camp and fired my first M-16. I even led the troops on a morning run. I met with sources in the back rooms of dark restaurants. I camped out in a hotel for weeks and weeks. My mission: a seven-month assignment to write about one of the most sensational military trials in history and help put my paper out front on a national story about drill sergeants, sex and abuse in the Army. When one of my stories led the front page of the Washington Post for the first time, I actually cried…

…Maybe one day they’ll let me go overseas. Maybe one day I’ll have an editor as good as Neil Henry. Maybe one day I’ll be an editor…