A Day in the life
5:22 a.m. Alarm goes off, get up, get dressed, stretch in preparation for tennis (twenty years ago, when I started playing tennis twice a week at 6 a.m., I used to be able to get up at 5:50, get dressed and play at 6. As I get older, I require more stretching time). Ride bike to PEC.
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Pilates: “deceptively easy”
So it’s five ‘til one, and I’m lying on a mat with my hamstring feeling like it’s grown a pair of balls only to have Pilates kick me in them.
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Parties in God’s name
Fire Crotch, Sober Spoons and Free the Pete: three student groups at Grinnell with distinctive names. Add to that list National Jesus Incorporated. With a name like that, the club seems shrouded in mystique and controversy. Many students on campus are either completely oblivious to its existence, or know little about it. “Yeah, I’ve heard the name,” said Sarah Lu ’07, “but I don’t really know what it’s about.”
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Cubs win! Cubs win!
Those tricky Cubs, wow, where does one even begin? In the first place, one could be forgiven for thinking that there aren’t any sports fans at Grinnell. And although only three of the ten lounges sampled were watching game two of the NLDS, those defiantly watching were big time supporters. Secondly, many were probably of the opinion that this story would never be written in the first place, right up until the last weekend of the regular season: the Cubs would somehow find a way to blow it. Lucklily for them, Houston beat them to the punch. But maybe to understand the significance of this accomplishment, we should take a look back at the history of this, um, historical franchise.
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