the idea of quakers is interesting. i think they like the idea of themselves. but the reality is rather strange and confusing, and often self-defeating. maybe i've just encountered them in odd contexts. maybe they are aliens.

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enough with the lobsters already ( Read more... )

kay brought mark a hermit crab from her senior trip to virginia beach. he named it bo jangles. scott and i played with him for about 2 hours. hermit crabs are a pet to incite the imagination. not because they do a lot of cool things. but because they don't. and you have to imagine what they might do, or could do, or would do, if given the ( Read more... )

at the last moment at the end of the season at the end of the night, i realized that i sort of feel at home at sargent center. the possibility of taking the school program assistant position for next season fits kind of comfortably into my thoughts. this is because of good people ( Read more... )

i have survived the week of the devil children and the week of nonstop rain. however, blackflies may be the last straw. they follow you in a cloud when you walk, so that when you stop, they can catch up to you and find an exposed piece of flesh to gnaw on. they have these big mandibles like tusks, which they slash back and forth on you, all the ( Read more... )

I like New England. Shall I stay? Who knows. Any suggestions ( Read more... )

why are kids infested with diseases? recently it's been a sort of barfing plague. and usually it happens to someone in my group. usually in the dining hall. and then all of the other kids see it and scream and try to run away, threatening their own contributions, and the whole dining hall flees away from the sick kid, stepping on each other and ( Read more... )

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