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| 1. You observe a large pickup truck in front of your house and come home to find grey, shredded looking stuff all over the yard and an outside wall swathed in tarp.
2. A student answers the question, "Name one check on the power of the president" with "Nixon."
3. A student that you happen to know is applying to multiple fashion schools comes to class wearing navy slacks, a black polo, and cream-colored loafers. | | |
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Big Night
By Caroline Aaron, Marc Anthony, Peter Appel, Andre Belgrader, Larry Block
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It being November, we have a new seating chart for dinner. I have to confess that I will miss my last table. There were some pretty bad table manners and two students had to be banned from sitting next to each other, but there were also some lively conversations. One night they tried to stump me with words from their vocab list, and failed. This led to Min Gyu informing me that I am smart and should work at a bank. Another night, I had them make sentences with those same vocab words. They started somewhat weakly--"Today was so furnish." Ummmm...try again. "I buffet John." Better. "I am truculent." "You are inhuman!"--but ended well, "I am loathe to scrape plates." One evening I admonished someone not to eat like a barbarian. This might not have been the best tack to take since it quickly became clear that this student admires barbarians. "They are real man!" We had a rather convoluted argument about respecting barbarian culture and impressing barbarian girls that ended with me agreeing that in the future I would tell him not to eat like a pig. What will this month bring? | | |
| Intrigued by the title, I picked this book off of Mary Anna's bookshelf while dormsitting yesterday. It turned out to be the book about Jane Austen I've always wanted to read! It's literary criticism, but of the accessible sort. I love it when a writer puts into words exactly what you thought or felt about a work but couldn't quite articulate. (Those of you who know my penchant for reading movie reviews after watching the film will not be surprised.) And those flashes of new insight are fun too. | | |
| So, I ran my second 5K today and got a significantly slower time--25:24. But I think this is pretty much explained by the fact that it was SNOWING. I couldn't feel my legs the whole race. Plus, it was a harder course; it was hilly throughout and the last half mile or so went straight up a 200-ft bluff. It was still fun though, and all of us got medals. Fred won the men's division of the under-20 crowd (got fourth overall!), Grace won the female side of the same division, Adam got second in the men's 20-29 division, and I got third on the women's side (although only because the overall female winner was from this age group and hence didn't count in the age group standings). | | |
| Today was my first race ever. It was a 5K in Waterloo. I finished in 22:58, which means I placed 5th in my age category and 48th out of about 250 runners. Afterwards, I got a free massage and a bagel so fresh and warm it was like eating dessert. It was a gorgeous morning for a run. I am quite content  | | |
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