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(09/18/08 6:00am)
Every fall, it takes time to adjust to being back in school. For
students who spent their break in an exciting new place or working
a great summer job, the transition is even harder. Since I fit into
both categories, you'll have to forgive me if I spend a bit of time
reminiscing about my dream internship in hell.
(09/11/08 6:00am)
Last year, my roommates and I celebrated the onset of fall with
a migration of small critters into our apartment. Dan spotted them
first.
(09/04/08 6:00am)
I was alone, watching a movie at the start of freshman year,
when the phone rang. The ordinary impulse would've been to pause
Reservoir Dogs"" and answer it, but this was the room phone, which
I had not come to think of as my own in the few days living with
it.
(05/08/08 6:00am)
Before beginning, I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone
that, as this is the last lecture of the semester, I'll be ending a
bit early to allow time for you to fill out and turn in teacher
evaluation forms.
(05/01/08 6:00am)
(04/24/08 6:00am)
Alright Matt, we're going to go over this again. This is the
sixth time in the last 15 minutes, but that's fine. We're used to
reminding you about things, so say it with us this time:
(04/17/08 6:00am)
I'm thinking of starting a journal. Nothing especially deep. I
don't plan on sequestering myself in the corner of a coffee shop
with a fountain pen and a profound facial expression. But it's
recommended that one keep a log when beginning a new project and,
if nothing else, it should at least help to keep my mind off
meat.
(04/10/08 6:00am)
Halfway through my 12th birthday, my voice dropped from the
grating soprano that causes people to resent children to the
sub-audible seismic rumbling that causes people to resent
earthquakes. Wondering why I had been dealt such an unlucky card, I
spent weeks protesting my fate in a lumbering cadence that I
stubbornly refused to recognize as my own. Then I looked around at
my friends and realized I hadn't been singled out for
punishment.
(04/03/08 6:00am)
At the Academy for Elephants in Thailand, they are teaching
elephants to paint. In a video titled Elephant Paints Own
Self-Portrait,"" you can see one of the elephants hard at work with
a paintbrush in its trunk.
(03/27/08 6:00am)
Dear Mr. Screwtape,
(03/13/08 6:00am)
Before entering the more self-serious time of early teenhood, my
friends and I tuned in to Minneapolis' Top 40 radio station after
school most days of the week. While waiting to satisfy our fix for
Third Eye Blind, we received the following message about every 15
minutes:
(03/06/08 6:00am)
I can't remember who first suggested nude modeling as a
part-time job I might be interested in, but I'd guess they probably
didn't take their
(02/28/08 6:00am)
In 1493 AD, Rodrigo de Jerez, a shipmate of Christopher Columbus
and Europe's first smoker, also became Europe's first target of
anti-smoking sentiment.
(02/14/08 6:00am)
Hey You,
(02/07/08 6:00am)
This should all be in order."" I smiled brightly at a
hostile-looking woman in her mid-20s as I passed her the jar. Her
disapproving silence confirmed my suspicion that even in a health
clinic, handing over a half-pint of one's own urine is not
considered an invitation to friendly conversation.
(02/06/08 6:00am)
From _Coming on Strong_ through _The Warning_ and now on to
_Made in the Dark_, London's Hot Chip have made a rather quick
shift from mellow, occasionally dreary R&B-inspired electronica
to catchy dance music that deftly re-engineers funk and disco.
(01/31/08 6:00am)
I get a lot of mail, electronic and otherwise, asking me for
things. Money is a popular request but also time and blood. The
latter two I have good reason for hoarding. Although I could
probably get along fine with less blood, I have yet to find a
graceful way to remove it from my body. The smell of antiseptic
makes me dizzy, and I hyperventilate in the presence of needles.
I've learned through first-hand experience that even when provided
with written consent, the American Red Cross absolutely refuses to
draw blood from a person who has fainted.
(01/24/08 6:00am)
Though it would be at least another decade before I knew
Kosher"" as something more than a prefix for dill pickle spears and
table salt, by the age of six I had catalogued roughly one thousand
culinary misdeeds. Dividing the dinner plate into hermitically
sealed quarantine zones, I ordered around individual food groups
like the subjects of a fascist police state.
(12/13/07 6:00am)
As an avid fan of The Golden Compass"" in print form, I entered
the movie theater as a skeptic, but it doesn't say much for the
film that the 15 mph return trip through a snow storm was the least
tedious part of the evening. Still, the story's depiction of a
world where everyone gets their own animal incarnation did remind
me strangely of working as a SOAR adviser.
(12/06/07 6:00am)
As happens a few times every winter, Monday afternoon I found
myself laying flat on my back in the middle of a crowded walkway,
trying to think how best to save face.