My name is Elizabeth Grisham and I love email.

I subscribe to many newspaper mailing lists, breaking news email bulletins and other journalism-related email newsletters. Right now, I have more than 100,000 messages–many of which fall into this category–in my personal email inbox. (Thank goodness for unlimited storage.)

I don’t have a smartphone, so I check my email only occasionally throughout the day, and I do so on a computer.

When I am not occupied with email, I am consuming other kinds of media.

For one thing, I still read print newspapers, namely Broadside and The Washington Post. I am a print journalist and I love getting newsprint on my fingers.

I started using Twitter only last Fall (2012), but now I use it daily. I use it much like an RSS reader. I subscribe to the Twitter feeds of journalists and stay up-to-date on what they are saying, learning and doing. Here is a link to my Twitter page. Follow me if you like. Please know, though, that I’m boring. I almost never tweet. Like I said, I use Twitter more to listen in on the journalism industry conversation.

RSS feeds and news websites themselves make up the next tier of my diet. I actually find Twitter easier to use at this point, so I am having a hard time getting back into my love affair with RSS (which I first began using in 2003 or 2004).

Blogs make up the top (and smallest) tier of my pyramid. I read food blogs and baby blogs. I do not really read journalism blogs, though. I suppose I am very old-fashioned that way. I think journalists ought to be conduits for their stories, not first-person voices in them. I think I may have to work on that, though.

Perhaps, then, I will have to make some changes to my media pyramid in the near future.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go check my email.

Natasha John and Afshan Hassan are members of a South Asian sorority–Kappa Phi Gamma–at George Mason University, and they are calling all Mason women to join them.

To help them achieve that goal, Hassan and John are operating a kiosk in the Johnson Center. They have decked it out in green and black and gold and topped it with informational materials.

“Right now, we only have five members on our campus,” said Hassan, a Mason graduate student studying education.

Nationally, though, the organization has 700-900 members, she said.

“We’re not very big. That gives us the ability to connect with one another,” she said.

John said Mason women should know that they don’t have to be of South Asian descent to be a part of the organization.

“We kind of look for all kinds of girls who are interested in learning about our culture,” she said.

Those women who are interested in joining should “Come out to our Rush Week events,” John said.

“After that we hold interviews,” she said.

Women who enter the group will gain self-confidence and leadership skills, John said.

Freshman biology major Raiga Somjee stopped by the kiosk and looked over the materials on display.

“I don’t know much about it,” she said.

John and Hassan hope similar students will seek them out to learn more.