LAURA ONSTOT

Contact: l-onstot@northwestern.edu

Hometown: Spokane, WA

Alma Mater: Seattle Pacific University

Favorite Team: Gonzaga Bulldogs

Least Favorite Team: The Yankees of course

Favorite Rivalry: Cubs v. White Sox, I saw them clash at Wrigley in 2002. Cursing,spitting, drunken singing, everything I want from my baseball.

Favorite Color: Red, which works with my newfound status as a Cubs fan.

Favorite Quote: You're not doing the dance!

As far back as I can remember, I've wanted to be the dude who stands on the back of the garbage trucking dumping the cans in. But then they outlawed it. And technology changed. And my dream was forced to update. So then I wanted to be a baseball player, but got hit on the head when I tried to catch my first pop-up. There was only one solution — writing. Which is what I do now.

After college I took a job at an evil law firm where I made decent money and felt my soul draining into my ergonomic keyboard. So I quit and took a job writing about politics, and occassionally sports, for the best newspaper in the Country, the Rio Grande SUN. I live in the heroin overdose capital of the world, but covering rodeos (red hot guys in chaps) convinced me to stay. Sadly, the call of the non-wild beckoned so I left the chile, cowboys, Spanglish, and tequila for graduate school in Evanston, Illinois.

And to the boys of the Gonzaga Bulldogs, I still believe!

FARE THEE WELL MY MARINERS

DOWN WITH the DOGS!

THE DEVIL WEARS PINSTRIPES