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February 2, 2011
Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.
The Dissociated Press: An Antique Adventure
February 1, 2011
For three and a half weeks, we've slipped into an archaic apprenticeship system and become printer's devils. When else could I do something like this, if not during Winter Term?
West Coast/ Winter Term
February 1, 2011
Although not a Winter Term on the West Coast, unfortunately.
Teaching English
January 31, 2011
There was also a bonus piece to the puzzle that they could collect if they found Bigfoot and told him some facts about himself.
C is for cookie!
January 29, 2011
Rue made cookies. We decorated them. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Requirement Blues
January 29, 2011
What exactly should every Oberlin graduate know and be able to do by the time they walk up to the commencement stage? How do we know that she knows? And how do we make sure that her coursework allows her to actually learn it?
A Celebration of Ringing
January 29, 2011
The story of how Helena and I discovered Celebration Bells, First Church's handbell choir.
A Good Place to Be
January 26, 2011
Oberlin seems to be positioning itself as a destination city--a place people come to for dining, entertainment, and recreation.
Winter Term: A Project a Day
January 24, 2011
The idea is simple. I have to make one thing every day - anything from a wolf hat with headphones sewn into the brim to the slightly ambiguous "important arrangements."
Whimsy, an Oberlin Morning Tour, and Book Reviews
January 24, 2011
There's an advantage to working in the Science Center: while working in a library surrounds me with the supportive aura of thousands of books, it also distracts me with the subtle temptations of thousands of books.
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