Roommate Triage
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Sharon Lurye, a data journalist based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lavery and Lurye take on two letters. First, from a letter writer who can’t get her ex-boyfriend to pay her back. Another letter writer wants to help her freshman roommate get her life back. Plus an update from the letter “Resentfully In Love”. Finally, Lavery reads a letter with the subject, “Mad About Masking”, and is asking you, our Big Mood Little Mood listeners, to weigh in.
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen atood, Little Mood. |
| 0:39.4 | I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and I wanted to remind you all that on April 4th, |
| 0:45.2 | slate will be releasing a book anthology of some of my best Dear Prudence columns. |
| 0:51.2 | So please do keep an eye out for that. |
| 0:53.6 | It's available for pre-order now, or starting |
| 0:55.9 | April 4th will be available for purchase and bookstores and everywhere else. In the meantime, I have |
| 1:02.0 | some questions to answer today, and my guest this week is Sharon Lurye, a data journalist based |
| 1:07.8 | in New Orleans. She formerly taught middle school math. Sharon, |
| 1:11.7 | welcome to the show. Hi, glad to be here, Danny. This is very exciting. Did you like teaching |
| 1:17.1 | middle school math? Did you enjoy it? Would you recommend it? Well, I love the kids and I love math. |
| 1:23.4 | So no-brainer. It was great, right? There were difficulties about it, and I felt that I was not properly prepared or given the right resources. |
| 1:32.3 | So my particular experience, I would not recommend. |
| 1:35.8 | But I do love teaching in general. |
| 1:37.8 | But while I was teaching middle school math, I also founded the student newspaper, |
| 1:42.2 | and I realized that I was so much more invested in being the |
| 1:46.8 | advisor for the student newspaper and, like, editing students' columns about homecoming dance |
| 1:52.5 | than anything else I was doing. So I took that as a sign that I should go back to journalism. |
| 1:57.5 | Oh, well, I'm glad to hear that that led you down the right path. I ended up |
| 2:03.2 | Googling middle school math just to see what it is and was immediately distracted by |
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