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...mixture of three or four girls who broke my heart," and the car crashed. The scene repeated itself over and over like a film loop, Gondry's very own Groundhog Day, without Bill Murray for comic relief. "There was nothing I could do to change it," he laments. "I woke up in a sad mood, a depression." He couldn't have stayed glum for very long, because Gondry, awake, is living an altogether happier kind of dream...
Maya I. Soyre ‘07 woke up to her first day back at Harvard to find rotten news in her Wigglesworth doordrop. Soyre nearly spit out her poached egg when she read that her alma mater, Winsor Academy, had only been ranked second by the Wall Street Journal. Hoping that her Saint Anne’s alum roommate Isidore R. Hopkinson ’07 wouldn’t learn that her school had topped the list, Soyre hid her copy of the Journal behind her second-place squash trophies. Unfortunately Hopkinson had already heard the news...
Robin J. Stephens '03 woke up the last morning of his Carribean Spring Break extravaganza in the thatched hut of a local woman, with a potent taste of alcohol on his breath, a thick smell of ganja in the air and all articles of clothing save his coconut-weaved hat bizzarely missing. As he stumbled naked and sunburned across the beach, he heard the whirr of a jet engine and watched his flight back to Harvard take off over his aching head. "Damn," he thought. "I guess there's no way I'm turning in that Social Studies response paper...
When her blockmates from Lionel Hall and Matthews Hall woke her up for the second time to inform her of their new home, she had been battling with her alarm clock’s snooze button for several minutes...
...education, hands over the baby and checks her e-mail from the kitchen table. "I almost feel apprehensive if I leave for work without logging on," she confesses. Between messages, she helps Ryan pull blue Play-Doh from a container, then briefs Orozco on the morning's events: "They woke up early. Ryan had his poop this morning, this guy has not." Throughout the day, Orozco...