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October '01
Quote of the Month!
"Quintard. That's like, 'You're a retard, times five!'" -- Holly, 10/31
10/2
Crouse College, Karel Huza's Visit
"Boulez would come, but not all the time. He was always ... thinking." -- Karel Huza
"Write for your friends, not for your enemies." -- sound advice from Huza (no pun intended)
10/3
Crouse College, Ear Training I
"You have to bounce; you can't flap. We all know that no chickens have become great conductors." -- Dr. Downing (submitted by Hope)
Kelly's Room, studying for cartography
"You can rotate it, scale it, eyeball it, or you can just fuck it." -- Kelly, listing the ways to transfer a map to a different projection.
"A picture is worth a thousand words, so pick a thousand that you like and grade me on those." -- Kelly, on her proclivity for pictorial responses to test questions.
10/5
Schine, the 1st Lockin
"I tend to freak out in opera." -- Karen Boltz
10/7
Lusky's Vehicle
"Welcome to the beginning of my nervous breakdown." -- Ariel Schulman
10/8
online
"I need you to make a fist and beat the hell out of something with it because I'M SO HAPPY right now!" -- Jen, after I mimed a stamp of approval about her new boyfriend :)
10/9
Bird Library
"I like Japan, because that's where Shohei's from." -- Miriam, being cute
"Rhode Island has more people than Montana, for G-d's sake!" -- Miriam, being quite distrought.
online
"My subconscious knows Spanish!!! Yay!!!" -- Kathleen
10/16
Online
Katie: I think you need to tell him.
Andrew: I don't quite know how to breach that subject.
Katie: (tap on shoulder) "Pardon me, but you're gay. And by the way? You like me." Problem solved.
10/17
NPR interview with Elliot Carter
"Despite the sometimes fierce sounds of the work, it was inspired by the quiet gardens of Kyoto." -- NPR interviewer, on Carter's new Cello Concerto.
10/18
Sociology of Sex & Gender
"The picture does not show the pimples which were airbrushed out, or the dumbness." -- Nora Ephron, in an article about puberty.
Debaucheryland
"We have some lovely window treatments out here." -- Sara, offering a way to entice someone out of the closet.
10/19
Boston, Kathleen's new apartment!
"You gain fifteen pounds when you walk into that room." -- Kathleen, whose mirrors have a character all their own.
10/21
Phi Sigma Pi Chapter meeting
"Less talky, more quiety." -- Dan Bart, to Miriam.
Club Windstar
"Oh my G-d. Did G-d just say 'I'm gonna make a stupid idiot! I'm gonna give her NO brains?'" -- Seth, to JenGa
10/24
the MADison house
"The capital of Brazil is 'Change User.'" -- Adam, looking at what was decidedly NOT a map of Brazil.
"It's a shame. All this ice cream ... and one mouth." -- Adam
10/25
Barb's Office, where anything worth going on, goes on.
"And I don't even want to THINK about tuna casserole." -- Dana, culminating her speak out against the Chicken of the Sea.
"The moral of this story is: don't go there, or Andrew will get agitated." -- Aaron, summing up a Scrabble game.
10/26
The Halloween Party at Dan, Smatt, and Dan's house.
"I have no idea what I am. I have no identity. I'm a wench." -- Bethy, solving her identity crisis briefly.
10/27
Rochester, Delta Alpha's service project
"It's the blind and drunk leading the blind and drunk!" -- Smappy
Matt's place at U of R
"I'm a big fan of the double cross." -- Gary, who was incidentally discussing his dollar sign preference.
Back at R.I.T, Delta Alpha's dessert buffet
(because they like to eat)
Dan Lerner: Nothing good has ever come out of Philadelphia.
Jason Pacchiarotti: What about--
Dan: Nothing.
Jason: What about--
Dan: Nothing.
Dan: Jason, you know what's good that came out of Philadelphia?
Jason: What?
Dan: Nothing.
"We would be so fat if we went here." -- Emily Frenkel, and yet, Delta Alpha is a considerably skinny chapter :)
10/28
R.I.T, outside Jason's apartment
"You know what's good that came out of your mom? Nothing." -- Jason, to Dan
10/29
online
"Our best customers are stoners coming back from Canada. Just go 'and' after they place an order, and they'll order more." -- Dan Lerner
"[She's] Delta Alpha's other Long Island Jewish brother. We have to have two ... it's in the bylaws." -- Dan Lerner
10/30
Bird Library
"Whereas Nebraska, where there are a lot of sluts apparently, would have dark shading." -- Miriam the map geek, discussing her map of pregnant teens concentration.
Kimmel
"I don't like close games. I'd just prefer we kick ass." -- Miriam
10/31
online
"It's the $130 abusive stepfather of the biology SAT subject test." -- Benny, on the GREs
Stalking children with Holly
"Quintard. That's like, 'You're a retard, times five!'" -- Holly, driving on Quintard Street
"I'm gonna call Shohei a quintard when I get back." -- Holly. This is the first thing that crosses her mind.