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  • You know, when you're ranting splendidly to the heavens and shaking your fist at fate, you just can't help resenting sprinklers that pop on and drench you and your finest sentence in a spray of cold water.

  • I've had a rousing Posty's Jig, live music, advanced waltzing lessons, and a great big yummy chocolate chip cookie. Thanks bunches to everybody - far or near - who turned out to join in the dances and wish me happy b…

  • I've officially dropped Honors. It wasn't an easy choice, but, I think, necessary. I now have fifteen credit hours, which is the lightest load I've had in my entire college career. Perhaps this semester I'll have time…

  • When you're stumbling blindly down two flights of stairs with Emerson and Melville digging elbow into your ribs, Hawthorne cutting welts in your wrists, Shakespeare staring you in the eye, and fifty pounds of books in…

  • Laundry this semester is FREE!!!!!!!! At last, I can resist my obsession with quarters.

  • It's been three weeks since I've been to my own church. It's awfully strange to be away so long. I missed two Sundays in a row when my family rented a beach house from a Sunday to a Sunday. That was my longest absence fr…

  • for you Summer Academy folks "But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,I skin my knees. I bleed." - Billy Collins

  • Jeanna: Karoline, what if a man named Earl and a lady named Pearl got married?

  • I went down to the Drivers License Office to renew my license this morning, and after parking illegally in sheer desperation, I found myself in line with eleven other people. The line could have been worse. It was the…

  • Juliet, I hope you don't mind if I post the link to your Summer Academy pictures. :) I have clean feet.Only because I stayed indoors all day. After days of dry air and warm sunshine, cold nights and wide skies shifti…

  • I've been pondering this C.S. Lewis quote tonight: When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time…

  • Exam in four hours. Something's wrong with this picture. I'm not supposed to have to do this until December. I've never met a man who fulfilled Machiavelli's checklist for princes. But I do want to know if there's a rea…

  • Summer school ain't for the faint of heart. Or maybe it's WFU. I'm on the computer just to remind myself that I live in the twenty-first century, not in medieval Europe with Charleses and Philips and belligerent popes …

  • Lastnight I had a sudden hankering for a good Buchan adventure yarn, so I rummaged around and found Kyle's copy of the Hannay adventures. It opened to the last page of Mr. Standfast. "It was from the Pilgrim's Progress …

  • drizzle of glamour and dazzle of dreams

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