The Squeeze Sets In

November 15, 1999  Monday There comes a time during each semester, that every professor decides to tighten the reigns he or she holds over us–all at once.  This usually comes, oh, right about now as we are all looking towards Thanksgiving with big, shiny eyes and a string of drool hanging from our mouths. Could…

A Day in the Life

November 12, 1999  Friday The alarm blared at six like it had been asked to do, but now six seemed much earlier that it had the night before.  Seven sounded more reasonable, and the alarm stayed quiet for another hour. I kept being woken up during the night, though, because Matt and Camille, directly below…

Munsoned Again!

October 25, 1999  Monday I went home Saturday morning for the first time this semester.  Elmwood does not change, I have come to find, as if in a vacuum of time and space.  Besides one or two new houses going up, it has remained unchanged since my time there. It was good to see the…

Figures…

October 19, 1999  Tuesday Tom and Collinsville had both been asking me to write again (although they want most material to pertain to Amdor stories) and they read yesterday’s entry, “All Because of Algernon” as soon as I got home from the computer lab with it. Last night Tom and I, being out usual busy…

All Because of Algernon

October 18, 1999  Monday On Sunday, October 10th, we were visited on Calhoun by a few hundred bats.  At first, in the afternoon, I thought they were just birds–lots of noisy, screeching birds going crazy in our trees in the backyard.  Until night came.  We first found out they were bats when Camille told us…

The End of the Love

May 14, 1998  Thursday It this doesn’t convince anyone of the ease of a Dr. Fraiser class, nothing will.  When I got to class he didn’t have the tests for Film run off–the finals–so he had to go do that while we waited.  In a few minutes he returned and passed out his test… and…

The “Kill-tron 3000”

April 23, 1998  Thursday Tom thought he was really cool, being able to spritz and squirt at me with his little pee-shooter of a water gun the last couple of days. There I was, as just one example, simply minding my own business, watching TV in 420, and a stream of water hit my neck…

Sara, the New Vice-President

April 20, 1998  Monday I have to say that the movie we watched for film class tonight, Singin’ in the Rain, was the was best so far.  Sure a few parts were a little corny (it was made in 1954) but I really liked the comedy and premise, as well as the dancing.  Best of…

Answering The Tempest Wind

April 20, 1998  Monday Because of my up and down weekend, I needed to burn off some energy yesterday.  Unfortunately, Jeremy was the only person around the floor, so when we played catch I couldn’t throw it as hard as I would have liked.  But it good to be outside and doing something, all the…

One Down, Many More to Come

December 18, 1997  Thursday A few weeks ago my Sociology professor wrote on the board that the final would be on Thursday the 18th, but I later didn’t remember the time.  Last night I called his office to find out the exact time.  Let’s see, I had a final at eight at so that would…

“More Chronicles of an Artist” by Jake Baskins

December 17, 1997  Wednesday More tales, written by Jake: “Once there was a young lad named Will Calson (left-handed).  He really liked to draw, so we named him the Land-Handed Artist.  He brought a Super Nintendo game to WIU called John Madden ’94.  At the beginning of the year he beat everyone by an easy…

“A Day in the Life of the Artist,” by Jake Baskins

December 10, 1997  Wednesday Jake took some liberties in telling of the events that happened to me tonight.  In the next entry I’ll tell my side of it.  By for now, since he’s a guest to his journal, here’s Jake’s little story: “Wednesday night I went with Brandon, Tom, and the very cool Jake to…