S.KRAUSE

Benn there, done that

• Lohan Has Appendicitis, Publicist Says: Why stop there? Remove some other stuff, too, like that pesky liver she's been abusing.
• In dorms, men and women now room together: We had “friendship suites” over a decade ago in college, so I'm amused that this is news. The last section on Christian colleges is amusing, as is the following line: “One parent of a perspective Clark student did call to express outrage over the decision, calling it immoral, according to Ms. Darrigrand.”
• Art Above and Below, With Life in the Middle: It's a fluff piece, but there are some interesting pictures.

J&C are back in town, as evidenced by a phone call last evening. I thought I might see C at the library, but didn't.

Leaving the library around 4:45 was disconcerting because it was not yet dark ... I have grown accustomed to early darkness, and the mere dusk, the mere twilight was uncanny. The days are getting longer, so to speak.

Although it is Friday, it is not yet Sci-Fi Friday ... the trio of Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis are not yet showing back-to-back(-to-back) new episodes. It was Fish Fry Friday, but I failed to stop by Memorial Union for any fish.

Instead after the library I headed for Fair Trade and their fritters. The barista working today has only been there a few months and is not quite as competent, shall we say, as the usual guy who knows exactly what I want as soon as I step through the door and approach the counter. She gave me a cherry rather than cranberry fritter ... no great crime, but telling them apart is not that difficult.

Those fritters are guilty pleasures. I would gladly make them at home (if I had a recipe that matched the Fair Trade ones closely enough), but I think it would require more hot-oil-frying than I want to deal with.

—January 5 2007

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