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Last Tuesday, I got really drunk at a certain Square establishment. I apparently made it to the Quincy lobby and passed out on the couch, because two tutors shook me awake the next morning and told me that I should go to my room and wash the pen off my face before anyone else saw me. Not only am I too embarrassed to go back to the bar where I puked in the bathroom, but now I’m also embarrassed to ever go to Quincy again. Thoughts...
When I review a book, I read it with a pen in my hand so I can jot down little symbols in the margins as I go. One of the symbols I use--and I try to use it sparingly--is supposed to represent a little person who's rolling his eyes as if to say, "Jeez, Lou-ise." The record for the most rolled eyes I've ever doodled in the margin of any book is currently held by A.M. Homes' This Book Will Save Your Life (Viking; 372 pages...
...choice. Fortunately for the Harvard team, the three men left on base would did not come back to haunt it. “We had [Penn starter Michael Gibbons] on the ropes,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I wanted to get into the pen in the first inning, since with two games teams want to stick with their starters longer.” The Crimson gained some breathing room in the sixth after Klimkiewicz led off the inning with a single. Senior Matt Brunnig—the ambidextrous pitcher-turned designated hitter?...
...that I am not a complete moron. But while in high school a failed exam would have sent me into a tailspin of shame and despair, four years of good training in self-righteousness and entitlement at Harvard have taught me instead to reach for a beer and a pen in indignation...
...table, his leg a nice iodine brown from the skin prep, antibiotics floating around in his blood along with the Three-Mile-Island cocktail from the oncologists. Boy was his knee full of fluid. You start an arthroscopy by putting a metal tube about the size of a Cross pen into the joint. You then expect to drain out an ounce or so of tannish, slippery fluid when you take the plug out of the tube...