Posts Tagged "katherine"

Leap Days Two through Four

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 in Blog, Explorer, Travel | 0 comments

Leap Days Two through Four

As I’m now two weeks past the point of being able to remem­ber enough about the bits and pieces of the trip to recount them suf­fi­ciently, I resort to pho­tos and tweets. I hardly pho­tographed the jour­ney on day two, save for a shot or two of the Mississippi… but here are a few from the lat­ter days of the trip. On the sec­ond day of the jour­ney I trav­elled to Wheaton, IL., where on the third morn­ing I rum­maged through Dorothy Sayers’ orig­i­nal, hand­writ­ten man­u­script of Gaudy Night at the Wade Center . I spent most of the third day avoid­ing vicious...

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The Katherine Card

Posted by on Mar 3, 2009 in Observer, Scholar | 0 comments

The Katherine Card

I’ve decided that Katherine is not allowed to come to Bolivia. This is a sig­nif­i­cant change in plans, since Katherine is sched­uled to arrive in Bolivia on Friday and she intends to stay through August. Here’s the problem. I will lose the Katherine Card. The Katherine Card works all man­ner of magic. Observe: Convincing Teenage Sister to Accept Medicine Lorien: “Staton, you have to take this med­i­cine.“ Staton: “Um, no. It does noth­ing for me.“ Lorien: “It doesn’t mat­ter if you think it does noth­ing for your symp­toms, because it’ll stop you from being...

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Foolish Girl

Posted by on Sep 8, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

Yes, Lorien, do look at your assign­ment when it is first assigned, else you’ll be shocked to dis­cover it’s a sev­eral hour project, and you’d like to go to sleep. — Once again I am vir­tu­ally mock­ing you. You’re start­ing to sound like Katherine now… Dear Katherine, Here are the things you must do before you go to bed tonight. Posted by Kristin @ 09/09/2004 11:26 AM CST Interestingly, Lorien has long had you fooled. Whilst I have assisted in K-List Mockage, I have secretly con­ducted such notes to self for many a year. I just knew bet­ter than to leave my notes on...

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