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Monday, Jan. 26 From Meg To: Tom hello, hello, hello??!!!!! This is my first pitch out there into the void. Are you there? Will you catch it? Will you be the catcher in the void? clackety, clack, blah, blah, blah...hello...
Along with the click of four-color pens and the occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...
...Aqua Net periodically waft into the crowded room as peddlers in blue aprons circulate selling instant Lotto cards. All eyes gaze up at the main stage where numbers dance around the monstrous Bingo Board. The hypnotizing pop of the gyrating bingo balls is only broken by the clickity-clack of chips flying across the players' boards as each selected number is called out over the inaudible PA system...
...street, I straighten my back, hoping to disguise imperfections that this outfit does nothing to hide. Slut clothes are bad for the nerves, but good for posture. I click-clack my way into the UC office to pick up posters. Good lord, the Vice President and Campus Life Committee Chair are schmoozing on the couch--will they ever think of me the same way again? I hide behind some boxes and mutter a hello. These shoes are killing...
...Clackety-clack, clackety-clack, all day long...