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.