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...smell prevented me from resuming my nap, I half-heartedly picked up the romance novel I’d purchased on the way out, and pretended to read. When all manner of wiping and discarding had ceased, I thought I was home free, until, of course just my luck, “24D” decided he was going to make things up to me by engaging in conversation. Fuck...
Lowellians attempting to nap yesterday afternoon were treated to the sounds of five undergraduate klappermeisters honing their bell ringing skills. High above in the belltower, students pressed footpedals as others pulled at an intricate web of ropes above. Their teachers included none other than the bell ringer of the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered...
...four-hour stay. That will be possible because he plans to roll out Yotels at airports (a Heathrow Yotel is slated to open this summer) and other travel hubs such as train and subway stations, where guests in transit may require rooms only for a shower and a nap. Like restaurants that turn over tables many times an evening, "We think we can let the rooms 21/2 times a day," Woodroffe says - that's a target occupancy rate...
...They usually rise at 6 a.m and go outside for morning exercises - calisthenics in the yard - then have breakfast, usually sticky rice or noodles with vegetables or bread. They then prepare to bicycle to a school about a mile away. At 11:30 they return for lunch and a nap. At 2:30, some may go back to school and others stay at home and work on homework. In late afternoon, they have dinner and then, about 6 p.m., free time. "They may play football or read in the library or work on computers," says Nguyen Van Trung, director...
Just consider what happened when Galbraith woke from his nap and returned Johnson's call. "Who is that woman?" the President asked, inquiring about the housekeeper who had dared tell him no. "I want her working...