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Monthly Archives: February 2006

The Olympics (the not-Knitting ones, that is)

When I was little, it seemed like the Olympics were a much bigger deal than they seem to me now. The family would gather around the TV and watch the torch running, the opening ceremonies, and the only event which my mom and dad really cared about, which was figure skating. So yeah, we didn’t [...]

Quark’s reaction to our refusal to turn up the heat

It’s no secret that cats love boxes and other enclosures, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cat actively make a burrow for himself before. Maybe he’s a little smarter than I give him credit for. Be the first to like. Like Unlike

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She wakes up this morning fearing death. Not the abstract kind of death, the kind firmly in the depths of one’s subconscious when one is only twenty-five and still maintains a healthy cushion of invincibility, not the inevitable kind that is still at least forty years away. This was dread of an immediate visceral nature, [...]

The joys of working editorial staff on a student magazine

Why is it that whenever we publish the story of a person who knows another person who has been seen at parties standing next to one or more of the people on the editorial staff, we hear complaints of nepotism and that we’re biased, elitist jerks? Yet, on the other hand, if we don’t publish [...]