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#071: My quotable-loving heart skips a beat.

November 9th, 2009 2 Comments

Currently listening to: “Marx and Engels” – Belle and Sebastian Skipping and wandering through life picking up two-second snippets of seemingly haphazard conversations is a surefire way to get a quick sampler of the environment. Like flitting through a mega box of tea samplers from cinammon apple to peach to white berryblossom in merry succession, […]

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#070: Meet the Dean

November 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on #070: Meet the Dean

Currently listening to: keyboard-clicking, page-turning, distracted coughing, et cetera Just a brief plug for this week’s Arts Meet the Dean session at MASS (Buchanan D-140) at noon on Wednesday, November 4! Come and engage in open dialogue with Dean Nancy Gallini and chat about the issues that affect you as an Arts student. (And as […]

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#069: Of precocious children and one-liners

October 24th, 2009 2 Comments

Currently listening to: “Fashionable People” – Joel Plaskett Emergency I do hate to use the excuse of life and work distracting me from updating on a semi-regular basis; alas, I must throw that out here. Amidst the steady loop of midterms (take one) and term papers and midterms (take two) and commitments to various extracurriculars, […]

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#067: We all have our days.

September 25th, 2009 Comments Off on #067: We all have our days.

Currently listening to: “Night Reconnaissance” – The Dresden Dolls Overheard in the elevator in Gage. Guy munching on snack: Dude, it feels like Friday. His friend: …yeah, because it is Friday. I think that pretty much describes how we’re all feeling. Cerebral processes halfheartedly dragging along as we wonder to ourselves, mumbling a tad crazedly […]

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#066: Scoping out Imagine Day…and cupcakes.

September 9th, 2009 4 Comments

Currently listening to: “Air” – Hair 2009 New Broadway Cast I woke up yesterday morning and gazed out of the window of my 13th floor Gage Towers apartment* to see streams of tidily colour-coded first years traipsing across campus trailing behind MUG leaders with aptly-named signs. Then I took a mental moment to silently welcome […]

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