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Home Sweet Home Away From Home

by Marissa on 15 August 2005

Back in Valpo, ya’ll. It’s as thrilling as I left it! Mums, Dad, Nathan, Alex and I worked on packing up my stuff from Mums & Dad’s house this morning, and then we (minus Alex, who was heading back to Bloomington) spent the afternoon and early evening unloading everything and putting it all back away. [...]

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Float On

by Marissa on 12 August 2005

A professor I had in undergrad, who taught classes on Hinduism and surveys of Eastern thought, and who had spent several years of his life with his wife and children living amongst poor villages in India, once described the solution to most of life’s challenges as the need to “float.” Life, he said, is like [...]

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Is No News “Good” News?

by Marissa on 12 August 2005

It’s Thursday, and for those of you keeping track of this sort of thing, that means it’s exactly one week from the date of my Exit Interview in which I was told that we’d hear something “in about a week.” Of course, interpreting that leaves many options: (1) We’ll hear something in one calendar week, [...]

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The Return

by Marissa on 2 August 2005

Hey. . . I’m back. And this time, I’m me. Just the facts, ma’am. I mean, Boolar is still absolutely here, but he’s busy being Nanny to Baby Bert, the tiny baby monkey who is approaching his first birthday. Now, I’m not going to catch you up, because it’s been, like, two years. And most [...]

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