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27
Jan
2007
So, at the Wheel we have this area in our offices that's an anti-Shrine to everyone's favorite Chinese communist, Chairman Mao! It started off as a single item and as a place to vent anger and direct it at Mao (instead of at each other), but it's grown into a rather interesting collection of items. To outsiders, it could - quite fairly - seem odd.
26
Jan
2007
The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maugham, isn't quite what I expected. According to the forward, it was based on a line in Dante's Inferno about a man who takes his adulteress wife to a noxious castle in a ...
22
Jan
2007
The most frustrating thing about being sick is that the world keeps going. I'm running a bit of a fever right now, which is unfortunate.
I, of course, am keeping my priorities straight and am updating this blog. This weekend was pretty hectic with Wheel stuff. I trained some new ...
20
Jan
2007
The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon (who won a Pulitzer in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay), is like Encyclopedia Brown on crack. A novelette - it's a brisk 144 pages - starring a famous unnamed detective (the book hints at ...
17
Jan
2007
My roommates and I planned a fancy girls' night out for the beginning of this semester, just to kick off the new year. Unfortunately, my car was still being fixed, so we needed rides. Anyway, our fancy girls' night out morphed into a fancy not-just-girls' night out, but it was ...
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