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sarah_ovenall on my earlier post, dashing my sense of history:
I graduated from Duke in Dec. 86. Epworth was the most interesting dorm at Duke, where most of the bohemians lived. I formally lived off-campus for almost all of my tenure there, either in apartments run by Duke or in a room in, effectively, a boarding house a mile due east of Epworth, off of Duke's East Campus. For the last few years I was around Duke, I treated Epworth as my adopted dorm, and that's where I met Sarah.
I know that I met nellorat and supergee before my final semester at Duke. In fact, even though I lived only half a mile from them (they also lived east of East Campus), I deliberately avoided visiting them that semester, because I had a tendency to go to their house and discover that eight or nine hours had gone by, and I couldn't afford the time. I had three literature courses and a creative writing class to complete that semester, and often spent entire days holed up in my bedroom reading. One week, I read Ulysses in its entirety between Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning, and I'm not a particularly fast reader and it's not a particularly quick book. I think I read the entirety of the "Circe" chapter without getting up from my bed. Ness. Yo.
So that makes Sarah officially #6 on my LJ friends seniority list.
sarah_ovenall on my earlier post, dashing my sense of history: I graduated from Duke in Dec. 86. Epworth was the most interesting dorm at Duke, where most of the bohemians lived. I formally lived off-campus for almost all of my tenure there, either in apartments run by Duke or in a room in, effectively, a boarding house a mile due east of Epworth, off of Duke's East Campus. For the last few years I was around Duke, I treated Epworth as my adopted dorm, and that's where I met Sarah.
I know that I met nellorat and supergee before my final semester at Duke. In fact, even though I lived only half a mile from them (they also lived east of East Campus), I deliberately avoided visiting them that semester, because I had a tendency to go to their house and discover that eight or nine hours had gone by, and I couldn't afford the time. I had three literature courses and a creative writing class to complete that semester, and often spent entire days holed up in my bedroom reading. One week, I read Ulysses in its entirety between Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning, and I'm not a particularly fast reader and it's not a particularly quick book. I think I read the entirety of the "Circe" chapter without getting up from my bed. Ness. Yo.
So that makes Sarah officially #6 on my LJ friends seniority list.
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Date: 2004-01-16 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-16 04:56 pm (UTC)(wanders off in a small-world daze)
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Date: 2004-01-25 04:21 pm (UTC)I only met Marty in passing. However, I did once mock him openly in a letter to The Chronicle, the Duke daily newspaper.
The letter was entitled "Who Is Marty November and Why Is He Saying These Things about Me?" This came about when I applied for ASDU (Associated Students of Duke University, the student government) certification for a protest humor group, DUDA (The Duke University Discordian Alliance--"We Discordians Must Stick Together!"). Certification was, at the time, a rubber-stamp process--there's a form to fill out, and the the group is automatically approved if certain qualifications are met. But Marty decided that, I don't know, it was too dang weird or something and forced a full ASDU vote on whether to approve it. It's not clear whether he actually had the power to do that, but I decided to fight the issue on its merits.
So I wrote the letter to The Chronicle in preparation for defending it before the governing body, gave a little speech, and got approved overwhelmingly. I think it was the only setback he had during his term, but I could be wrong.
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Date: 2004-01-25 06:23 pm (UTC)