A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Thursday, August 31, 2006

This past semester, my college announced that it was considering going co-ed. Apparently the school is financially in the toilet, and they think that this is the best way to combat this and make the school more appealing to prospective students. A letter was sent out to alumnae to the effect that the trustees were going to vote on this at a meeting sometime in the next two weeks. I believe that the plan called for "a global honors college in a coeducational setting." The interim president, an... Sign in to see full entry.

people watching. It's always fun to people-watch on the subway because people are so interesting. For example, there was a woman who was completing her toilet--ie, putting on her makeup and putting in her earrings! Couldn't she have just done that at home before she came to work? There's also the man who was reading James Joyce. I'm not a huge fan of Joyce, and think that anyone who reads him for fun must be nuts. But here this guy was, reading Dubliners (thank God it wasn't Ulysses) right up in... Sign in to see full entry.

...this time at a place on Lexington Ave. that offers support systems for companies who are having difficulties. It's hard to explin; I don't exactly know what they do myself! Still, I'm earning a little bit of cash. Sign in to see full entry.