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  • Oy. The first UVA home football game was today, so the ER was hopping. The game hadn't even started when my shift ended, but we'd already had several game-related complaints arrive--MVAs and syncopal episodes. The exce…

  • It's high time I updated the entire world on Mad Scientist. Is there any creature more surly than a 14 year old boy? Here's a transcript of a recent conversation. Set up: He'd just made himself a cup of tea (Mad l…

  • Oh Iris, Iris. I think A Severed Head is the novel in which she really found her groove. Her first, Under the Net, is excellent, and very funny, but there's a first-novel naivete to it. Her second novel, Flight From t…

  • I'd like to ask a personal question: What is your gut reaction to the phrase "Science Fair"? Is it one of pleasant anticipation of a Fun Family Project? Total indifference? Naked horror? When I was in the up…

  • From the I Told You So department: Charlottesville residents recently voted overwhelmingly to have an elected school board, rather than one appointed by City Council. I voted against the measure, for reasons expl…

  • Clarissa is making me cross-eyed. I am just over 200 pages from the conclusion of the longest work of literature in English and I feel like I've been reading this book for my entire life. I don't want to give any spoil…

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