Weather

The Weatherpest

November 5, 2002 by

The weatherkitchen has a rat. It took up residence with us late last month, which was great because we were looking for a subletter anyway.
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The Voting Game

November 5, 2002 by

Yesterday, I played the voting game. The objective: Make your way to your polling place, convince the poll workers that you are not an absentee voter, and cast your ballot.
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Words, Words, Words

November 4, 2002 by

With Halloween comes inebriation and the inevitable attempt to write term papers drunk. In this state, the weathercavemates often wax philosophical.
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Winged Death

November 1, 2002 by

With all the scary costumes, large men and frightening out-of-towners in I.V. last night, I ended up getting attacked - by a snowy plover.
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Step Away From the Car

October 30, 2002 by

The weatherneighbor
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Happy Halloween

October 30, 2002 by

Halloween, midterms, and Parents' Weekend. There is truly something evil about the season. At the very least, it will get things over with.
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Trick or Treat?

October 29, 2002 by

They scheduled Parents' Weekend on Halloween weekend this year. No joke. Just the hilarious, awful truth.
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McWorld Series

October 28, 2002 by

I was an Angels fan as a kid. If you like rooting for the underdog, there's nothing like a baseball franchise that hasn't won a series since 1961.
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All Right, I See Your Point

October 25, 2002 by

My professor has an affectation. He carries around an eight-foot pointer, which he waves with a flourish and has taken to resting on his groin while answering questions.
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SPAM All Around

October 24, 2002 by

One of the weathercavemates recently figured out for the first time how to delete messages on a U-Mail account. There were over 400 e-mails in the inbox.
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Get a Chest X-ray

October 23, 2002 by

I sat next to the coughing guy in class yesterday. Every class has one this time of year. He'll be there 'til February, occasionally trading shifts with the coughing girl.
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Essay

October 22, 2002 by

I am writing a paper for a certain social science class tonight and I seem to have lost the assignment sheet. Rather than researching, I have developed an exciting new social science theory. I call it...
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A Bush by Any Other Name

October 21, 2002 by

Do you remember when you were a kid and had to learn the difference between Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt? Or that Grover Cleveland's terms weren't consecutive?
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Ow.

October 18, 2002 by

Weather-update: I have discovered the purpose behind the ill-placed muff-thumping, sack-attacking turnstiles in the library.
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Three Weeks, I’m Going Insane…

October 17, 2002 by

There is a conspiracy afoot. Before the year began, all the professors and TAs at this school decided to assign papers for the same three days.
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