This is a lab write-up that was actually turned for credit in a class I took first year. Enjoy. This piece was produced with the help of Miss. Susannah Kalb's unmatched brilliance.  (Note that this was written in a "computer-looking font"  You, know, where everything is sorta blocky...anyway)
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1. When I came home two weekends ago, I was driving home from a Camp Luther retreat when I passed a highway patroller. I looked at my speedometer and realized I was going fast...80, in a 65...I slowed down and pulled over, he didn't even have to put his lights on ( Read more... )

On the night of February the 19th a very peculiar thing happened to me. An event that remains unexplained. A mystery that remains unsolved ( Read more... )

Today I was told that one of my friends would be playing on the adult side in our annual Alexander Family Super Bowl Football Game: Kids vs. Adults. This is a tradition at our house that started when my oldest brother was an early teen. Our back yard is separated from the local middle school football field by a barbed-wire fence, that my dad ( Read more... )

A few days ago I decided that I was not in a good mood and that I wanted to portray that in my appearance. Therefore I dressed in the darkest colors that I own, which are mostly light browns, which isn't too far off from what I usually wear. Regardless, I managed to put together something that was quite depressing. Hopefully, the casual onlooker ( Read more... )

I got Tootsie Roll flavored chapstick in my stocking this year. Every time that I use it, I just want to eat it...like it's a tootsie roll...and not chapstick. Instead of eating it, which I know I shouldn't do, I just lick my lips a lot and eat the chocolate flavored skin that is peeling off of them ( Read more... )

The first day of school this quarter was weird for me. It seemed that I had been gone so long and this first day of the second quarter of my third year of college began to feel as if it were the first day of high school. I wanted to pick out my clothes the night before, particularly anything new, and set it out on the chair next to my bed. I ( Read more... )

I HATE JOHN BASEDOW!

too many commercials
you're old
you're hair is big and nasty
put a shirt on
yuck
oooooold.

I recently got home from studying abroad in London. While we were there we had to stay in a dorm which was a combination of the colorful design of Max-Palevsky and the claustrophobia of Pierce in Chicago. I won't miss the IES Residence Hall for many reasons, one of which is the elevator ( Read more... )

Some of you may have heard about this already, but there is an impending epidemic that is sweeping the world. It is called the Avian Flu. It is also known as Bird Flu, Bird Disease, Flying Flu, Flying Aviators, Aviationary Flu, Flu of Aviation, Avian Avianarian Disease, Disease Flu Aviators, Aviatory Aviation Aviationary Aviatory Aviers and Don't ( Read more... )