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Unfortunately, I Seem To Have Misplaced My Brain

By Iris | Published: Thursday, September 21st, 2006
I somewhat miraculously made it through this entire day without the benefit of my brain. I’m not quite sure what happened to it, but there you have it. It was rather an unfortunate day to be without my brain because we were discussing database renewals this morning, I was trying to prep for a class [...]
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Obvious?

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
This morning was the second of three mornings spent reading portfolios. I have to say, this could grow on me. We sat there at round tables reading paper after paper after paper. Every once in a while someone would giggle at a particularly humorous turn of phrase (some of these were even intended to be [...]
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What Writing Can Teach Us

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
This morning was the first of three consecutive mornings that I’ll be spending reading the sophomore writing portfolios at my college. This is my first time reading such things, and I must say that it’s kind of daunting. You see, each year, all the sophomores turn in three to five examples of their writing from [...]
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