I was walking down Sheffield this afternoon looking for a protest to join, and ran into Odisho, our local NYT delivery driver, dropping off our final SQ papers.
He’s really a great guy — recently immigrated from Iraq, and starts his Saturdays 30 minutes earlier than usual (2:30 a.m.!) so that DePaul students are guaranteed a Saturday delivery. Every time I try to thank him or treat him to a coffee he brushes me off — “reading and learning are important. My father used to read the newspaper to me every day in Baghdad.”
So there’s that.
