The Good, The Bad, The Dog

Yale Mascot: "Handsome Dan"

They actually kept the skin (and fur!) from the original "Handsome Dan" (who lived in the early 1800s), and have stuffed it to make it look unnervingly life-like. If you are curious, you can see this stuffed masterpiece at the Yale Visitor's Centre. It was also featured on an episode of "The Gilmore Girls".

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The good: I am learning how to write. If you've read through any part of my blog, you'll know that I am badly in need of conciseness. Well, my amazing English teacher has resolved to exorcise my writing demons. His techniques are very useful.

The bad: Unfortunately, the process involves a great deal of pain and wails of terror. These, of course, refer to swallowing pride and trying to improve myself.

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Words look like things. The word ‘pervasive’ looks like a needle to me; when I see it, I think of a silver cylinder tapering to a stabbing point. When I see ‘the’, I think of a gap-toothed peasant. When I see ‘and’, I think of Atlas bearing the burden of the world on his shoulders (this also reminds me of my intense dislike of Ayn Rand)

How can already graphical objects still have visual connotations? How many dimensions to thinking are there?

I don’t know the answer; just thought I’d ask the question.

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Yale is very busy right now. My parents just visited for Parent's Weekend, and the midterm exam season has begun in earnest. I came very close to pulling an all-nighter last night. But then I fell asleep......at 11:30 PM. Intense, no?

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I went back to Target. Roshan wasn't there.

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I spend way too much time on thefacebook.com. I don't add friends, necessarily; I just browse other people's profiles. My habit of people-watching has translated neatly to the online world. I can now name the interests, former high school attended and relationship status of someone I've never met.