A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I've been hearing that, in the past three weeks, he's spent $500 for alcohol alone. If that's true, I wonder. Did he pick up the tab at that bar last week? Because there's absolutely no way that he could have spent that much money on alcohol for himself! However, I haven't heard this information from the horse's mouth itself--only from his mom, who worries about him excessively. I'm dying to talk to my roommate about his bar tab(s), but don't exactly know how to bring up the subject with him. In... Sign in to see full entry.

Steve Irwin, the famous crocodile guy, was killed by a stingray! Not very surprising, considering his occupation. Sign in to see full entry.

the weird guy who kept stalking the girls from my publishing program. I'll tell you that story right now. For six weeks this summer I took a course in book and magazine publishing at NYU. It was a M-F, 9-5 kind of thing, with breaks in between, obviously, for lunch and the like. Classes were held downtown, in the Woolworth Building--the Scool for Continuing and Professional Studies at NYU owns the first four floors. Our class met in a large lecture hall; there were computer labs downstairs for... Sign in to see full entry.

On Thursday night I went out with my roommate and some of his friends from college. One or two I'd met before; the rest I had not. We went to this bar in the upper 50s in Manhattan and got completely, drunk (or most of us; I'm a lightweight, so I only had two beers. Still, I must say that my judgement was somewhat impaired). To make a long story short, I went home with my roommate's college roommate. A decision that was rather rash and probably not my best idea ever. But we had fun, and that was... Sign in to see full entry.

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.