Word: catnap
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Don’t lie, you know you love that little mid-class catnap. And we all get pissed when section rolls around and we are forced to (gasp!) pay attention. Now imagine if you were in a class where such glorious oblivion was essentially impossible, as it is for Jenny Y. Wang ’10, the only student in Erving Research Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer’s Freshman Seminar “Seeing by Spectroscopy.” For those of us who never got past the elementary acronym ROYGBIV, Professor Klemperer says...
...around 4:30 p.m., Saini dropped the metal security gate in front of the beer-bloated convenience store entrance and took a catnap. “I was sleeping there,” Saini says, pointing to the floor beside the door. “I had a headache.” Saini is no novice at convenience store ownership. Before immigrating to the United States, Saini founded a convenience store in India, the Darshan Confectionary, which was named after a family member...
PEOPLE: Halle Berry takes a catnap; Bruce Willis takes Iraq; Prince Harry takes Australia...
...Awake from a dignified on-bar catnap to find things have become inexplicably dark. The circuit breaker has been turned off and people are carrying flashlights. We start to load out the equipment in the surreal black. I carry one turntable and it’s the heaviest object I’ve ever carried. I move it into the car and take a nap on CBGB’s upstairs couch...
...disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill the measure. That didn't happen, and the measure was passed during the gargantuan, all-night effort to avoid a government shutdown. Before the potential implications for the military had become clear, Lautenberg was pleased. He had taken a predawn catnap in the Senate cloakroom and awakened to a beefed-up bill. "A spouse is a spouse is a spouse," he says, "and we can't excuse that kind of behavior, even for a soldier...