• Ian, the cute freshman from my Comparative Literature recitation, who lives in Brittany Hall and, apparently, has been familiarized with Jake Baxter via the music tech program, and appears consistently nervous in his attempts at topical, class-time articulation, regardless of his consistently clear capacity and intelligence for the subjects at hand
  • That hetero-normative, brunette, glassed-man who I first saw in Hayden a few weeks ago, while lounging and reading that Carl Wilson essay on Celine Dion and cultural capital for WTE, and proceeded to make significant eyes at, who is now to be found nearly everywhere (though, mostly dining halls)
  • Ryan, the Texan Film & Televison kid from my WTE class whose spent the last month and a half, seated some six feet away from me, blatantly staring at me (I finally broke the ice by addressing him in our most recent plenary session concerning peer editing and the like, a communication which seemed to render him both duly surprised and notably nervous)
  • As always, the large, chain-smoking, afroed man who operates Warren Weaver Hall's 12th floor library, in whose eyes I'm sure I have, by now, proven a character of equal interest and ubiquity
  • The ever-persistent, "Indian man with the important-looking lobby office who makes regular trips outside for bouts of chain-smoking, in which we silently acknowledge one another's ubiquitous presence"--I prefer, from this point on, to refer to said gentleman as the CIMS "wetlab man," with our silent reciprocal acknowledgment of one another having grown obscenely obvious and frequent
  • Will Notini--no stranger, of course--whose for some reason chosen this as the semester in which we suddenly encounter one another in a variety of patently strange locations (more with respect to my conception of William's person and preferred haunts, than vice versa), i.e.
mar 7 2011 ∞
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