Trials and Tribulations of Living Off-Campus: The Saga of the Clogged Sink

12/6/10 1:52 PM

  Guest contributer Maya Lemon discusses the joys of living off-campus.   It happened on a Thursday. Scraping out the center of spaghetti squash--that’s right, it’s a squash that tastes like pasta--I eyed the compost bucket, close to overflowing, and opted to slowly add strings of squash to the disposal instead, wary of causing it to clog yet again if I added it too fast. After dinner, amidst the bustle of washing dishes in a kitchen smaller than most closets, it stopped draining. Soapy water with bits of squash and tiny pieces of kale floated to the surface as water slowly seeped from one side of the sink…to the other. And so began the ritual dismantling of the pipes under the sink, a process we’d done many times before to pull out eggshells or...

First Words

11/19/10 1:07 AM

Dear, Reader, Before we carry this confabulation any farther, it is necessary that you be made privy to certain particulars regarding my person. I find myself in a rather unusual position as the Associate Editor of a college publication. You see, this digitized age within which we find ourselves is acutely oppositional to the world within which I would, ideally, find myself. I would have myself pound at the keys of an old Royal typewriter, or labor by candlelight with a calligraphy nib and inkwell instead of setting myself down in front of an illuminated screen, fingers seemingly gliding over letters and effortlessly backspacing. Therefore, I must beg your patience, dear reader. For, due to my peculiarities, I am like to be inconsistent and sure to be out of date. I entreat you...