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  • Wow, this is really the first chance I've had to post. But that's all I'll say of schedules. You folks don't have to listen to chatter about schedules every day, but, being at college, I discuss schedules about four time…

  • What is a Gentleman, by John Henry Newmanan excerpt from John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (1852)It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refi…

  • Stage one of moving into my dorm room has been completed. And in record time, thanks to the strong arms of Kent, Kyle, and Eddie.

  • Ah, summer Saturdays. Weeding sidewalks, hoeing driveways, eating hotdogs in the rain, breaking into houses, ducking muddy sandals hurtling from second-story windows and encountering vacuums that look like sting rays. ~…

  • All right, I can only quote Jason, with a slight variation, and say I'm a young woman full of fire but more full of words. Blogging certainly has the potential to feed your egotism. It can give you a tendency to adopt ai…

  • You know, there's an astonishingly tight connection between words and knowledge, between naming things and conquering them. When you've had a roller coaster day, how do you sort it out and decide how you're going to thin…

  • What nicer place to be than in a discussion of baseball--a sport where that's played on green grass (symbol of fertile Edenic gardens), in the open air (not man's rebellious enclosures), with a square (one of nature's pe…

  • Today has been a funny day. I don’t mean that it’s been odd: I mean humorous. It started this morning when the oldest boy (age eight) in the family I work for (or worked for - today was my last day) asked if he would eve…

  • Anastasia informed me this evening that with sunglasses on, I look like Nancy Drew.

  • I've been cooking with apples most of the afternoon. There's something definitely gratifying about dumping brown sugar and cinnamon into a big pan full of apples, then watching the white flesh turn golden brown and juicy…

  • Meet the eighth wonder of the world, presently sitting on my desk. This marvel is Ichi, also known as my new laptop. And this is not just any ordinary laptop. This is the kind of laptop you secretly suspect wears sunglas…

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