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Back in the land of central time, sweet tea, humidity you can poke with a stick, and little yappy dogs. (Oh, and the coon hound the neighbors got. Bow-wow.) Ahhhh, so nice to be home for three and a half months.

Someone recently sent an all-stu with eerie and funny anagrams. Some of the more interesting ones:

Kenyon College's pasts =
Spooks! Glance tensely
Legless spook tenancy

(Old Kenyon, the oldest building/dorm of the college, burned down in 1949, killing 9 boys. They rebuilt it stone for stone, but raised the floor by about nine inches. So when people see ghosts, they see them walking on the original floor, and thus they only appear from the knees up. People on the floor below see disembodied ankles and feet.)

Kenyon's first building =
Fires unto blinding sky
Blindingly, fires O.K. stun
Nine kids fry, but lo, sing!

(As stated above, nine guys died in the fire. One of the four school songs, and by far the most famous, is "Kokosing Farewell," which begins with "Old Kenyon, we are like Kokosing..." and has a lot of "farewell, Old Kenyon"s in it. (The Kokosing is the "river" *coughbarelyqualifiesasacreekcough* which runs within walking distance of campus.) So, yeah. We sing about Old Kenyon, where nine kids fried.)

Historical building =
A ghost rid ill incubi

Kenyon College President Robert A. Oden = (all in good fun)
Bored, I took yon Carleton's green; peeled
Eroded plebe: I took yon Carleton's green
Bed torn! Spooky Legend! I renege, Carleton!

(He left us for Carleton last year. But the vacancy was filled by the first woman president Kenyon's ever had!)

Caples Dormitory =
Is real crypt doom
R.I.P lest a doom cry
Try car: slip doom
Scary doom. Let R.I.P.
Cry at doom's peril.

(Caples is haunted by a guy who fell down the elevator shaft and now tries to smother girls in their sleep. I'm truly frightened of that building, and I don't take stock in ghosts. It could just be the creeeeaky, slooooow elevator that always acts like it's about to break down.)

Library and Information Services =
A bad man, fit in evil sorcery: Sir Ron!
A fiat, ban sorcery! Mind Sir Ron!

(Ron Griggs being the guy in charge of all that. Never met him, but I haven't heard anything bad about him...but these are funny...)

And, finally, quizzes:





Which X2 Character Are You?

What's up with all these bad guys? I'm not bad guy material, I tell you!


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That is all. I think I might go to bed now. Eight hours in a van with my dad...pleasant enough, and I finsihed my Pratchett book, but tiring.