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  • There are times when "peanut butter chips" is the only answer.

  • I have just spent five hours and forty-six minutes on one page of counterpoint homework. The first assignment of the class. And I'm told that's typical.I don't have seventeen hours a week to devote to one class! I'm tryi…

  • So Jamie and I got to thinking this evening, what if this roommate relationship went bad? The potential for havoc in our personal and artistic lives is immeasurable! Clearly, the only thing for us to do was to fill out t…

  • Predictions may be premature considering that classes haven't started yet, but I think it's going to be a good semester. Hope sprang in my breast when I found myself leaving the bookstore with a single bag of books and,…

  • There! If there's anything at WalMart I need and didn't get, I'll just keep on needing it!Back in my dorm room. Hello, Senior Year. And hello, teaching job. According to the schedule I just got this evening, I already ha…

  • This, ah my foes and oh my friends, is an historic moment. It's the first such thingummy I've ever done. Blame Lady_Grey! 1. One book that changed your life: Every book I read changes my life, if only by showing me …

  • It's really very funny. (Note to Certain Persons - I did not say cute.) Alyssa cracks herself up, sometimes with the help of Julia and Jeanna, or Kent, or Mrs. Kizer, and after valiant efforts to maintain gravity, off sh…

  • Anyone who knows me well can tell you this, that my relationship with the town of Cary is not a friendly one. For one thing, it gives me an inferiority complex. Brick McDonalds? Wendy's lined with rosebushes? For another…

  • Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord makes one rich,And He adds no sorrow with it.

  • There are certain aspects of growing up that catch me by surprise. Lastnight a middle-aged gentleman and his wife were teaching me several spins in the cha-cha, and I was responding "yes sir" to the instructions. After a…

  • Breakfast . . . A peck of pickled portly Pooh's?Vini, Vidi, What? . . . Lyss: Caesar's Gallic Wars shall undergo Seussification.Kent inadvertently raises our opinion of Mr. Collins . . . Lyss: It's a ponytail, not a wate…

  • We await the imminent and much-anticipated arrival of Chrysan_the_Mum, raed_rehtaf, Lady_Grey, and the_penguin_boy. A the P seems particularly pleased about the forthcoming visit. I couldn't imagine why . . . . I won't…

  • May 25Istanbul’s Chora church, or Kariye Museum, may be the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. The backgrounds of all the mosaics are gold, and the air shimmers with it. Watching your step is downright impossible. You’…

  • What makes the perfect pencil?

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