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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Garage Sale

Since we eventually want to move out of our little house on the prairie, my roommate suggested having a garage sale. Now I don’t want to be, but I am the type of person that clings onto an object well past the sell-by date. When I looked over at my pile of “future art projects” [...]

Anthropology 101

Two of my friends from work came to potluck last night, and though I had initial reservations about exposing coworkers / employees to my regular rowdy bunch of friends*, turns out they are really incredibly cool and we have a lot in common. One of them is a Vietnamese-American girl, and like me, doesn’t really [...]

Fashionable dorks

Our paper recently ran a story about a local girl-turned-minor country star. Eli had gone to high school with her, as had a number of our friends. A friend mentioned that this up-and-coming star has been fudging her high school past. E and I skimmed the bio on her website: I never had a problem [...]

The Ladyhawks

One day I was driving to the gym, and the college radio station was tuned into the KU women’s basketball game. The student announcers were a bit bewildered by the number of spectators present. “The stadium is so packed, it’s almost like a men’s game!” “Yeah, looks like the free food really drew people out [...]