Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already swamped. Among other things, I have a psychology thesis prospectus to write for Monday, a seminar paper due Wednesday, the usual FM layout grind all weekend, and HRTV commitments out the wazoo. Celebrating my 21st birthday today isn't the most pressing thing on my mind right now. In fact, I didn't even go to the Border Cafe for the traditional "you-just-turned-21" midnight margarita. "What? How can you not live it up on your 21st birthday?" you ask incredulously. Am I such a loser that I can't even kick back today...
...they didn't have any students because who in their right mind was going to study Chinese when they grew up in Iowa. I had never even eaten Chinese food, I had never even thought about China until I was 18 years old and ended up in Iowa City, and I saw a poster saying critical language studies. Of course in those days, and this was the early 60s "critical languages" was a euphemism for "enemy language." They were advertising fellowships for Chinese, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. It was pretty apparent what they had in mind...
...visit by the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever to her mother's salon changed Wisse's mind...
Like most seniors, all of our recent financial decisions have been made with the Senior Gift in mind. After forking over more than a hundred thousand dollars in the last four years, we are watching every penny so that we can make a massive contribution to an institution which is truly in dire need of funds...
...remain concerned about the grade gap and the dearth of vans available to student groups, in pursuit of positions as generous neophyte alumni we put aside our differences with the administration. And so when it came to making spring break plans, with the profoundly worthwhile senior gift in mind, we discarded dreams of Cancun and selflessly pursued a bargain vacation...