Our communal dinners are always vegetarian. There is one vegetarian among the five of us yet none of us like to cook meat. My story is as such: I remember living at home and hearing a pounding noise coming from downstairs. I would creep down the stairs and follow the brutal sound to the kitchen. [...]
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Though this dance happened a few weekends ago, I thought it would be approrpriate to address this year’s events on my blog. The Eighties Dance is a Bates tradition- it happens every fall fairly soon after we all arrive back at school. People get dressed up in the expected: spandex, neon, side ponytails and legwarmers. [...]
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This Saturday friends and I decided to take the day to go to the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Like every Saturday morning however, it took some time to rally the troops. This means that we left after 12. It was a lovely drive to Unity, it’s way far north- past Colby and then [...]
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One of my most favorite places in Lewiston is the graveyard off Main Street in autumn. The landscape rises and dips and the hills provide a perfect sitting space where one can look out on the Androscoggin River. There are pathways winding through the land and trails which lead you down along the water’s edge. [...]
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So as I was driving home from grocery shopping last weekend I saw a sign advertising a new ice cream store on Bartlett Street. My roommates and I decided to go check it out. What I encountered was beyond my wildest expectations.
The ice cream place is called The Common and it’s goal is to provide [...]
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Posted in College Social Life, tagged Bates College, Bates quad, Ninja on September 13, 2008 | Comments Off
My friend met a Ninja on the Bates Quad. Now he’s taking “ninja lessons”. They are two hours a day and apparently incredibly intense. He practices on the Bates Quad. I would love to see him one day.
The other night he came over for dinner and seemed rather loopy. When asked to talk about his [...]
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Posted in Bates Opportunities, Random Thoughts, tagged ballet, Bates College, graduation, learning, PE classes, PE credits, plie, popos on September 13, 2008 | Comments Off
So I am that person. The senior who still needs her second batch of PE credits in order to graduate. I thought I was home free once I finished my Biology class set but no. Bates has contacted me more about finishing my PE credits in the last 4 months than it has ever contacted [...]
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This Friday night was the first of our “Friday night potluck series” where basically we tell everyone we know that we’re having a potluck and that they’re “welcome to stop by” at “oh, I don’t know, seven?” After telling mass amounts of people, we returned home to prepare a dish: risotto. People begin [...]
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Posted in College Social Life, Random Thoughts, tagged alienation, assembling furniture, Bates College, IKEA, Karl Marx, off-campus parties, sangria, yuppies on September 2, 2008 | Comments Off
So, in the seemingly never-ending saga that is the construction of my living space, I had to assemble some pieces of furniture. A dining room table, a bookshelf and a chest of drawers were the items. I started with the dining room table. I worked on it. And worked on it [...]
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Posted in College Social Life, Random Thoughts, tagged apartment, Bates College, bills, college, friends, high risk behavior, moving in, mystery, off-campus living, sacrifice, scabies on September 2, 2008 | Comments Off
I am writing this from my living room couch, a rose colored piece of furniture which has a history that I know nothing about. I don’t know where it came from, what it’s fashioned out of or how long it’s been in existence. But the most disturbing unknown is that I don’t know [...]
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