Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...kind of surprised," she said. "I was going to pick one up for my entire suite...but then I was told that each of [the five of] us could take...
...these feet aren't running to the 18th Core class of the day just to pick up the syllabus--these feet are trying to find each other. That's right, shopping period is the time of the year when everyone is looking for a lover...
...longer you stick around in Sanders Theatre or Lowell Lecture Hall--two prime pick-up locations--the bigger your chances of dating success. Use lines like, "Hey, didn't I see you shopping Fairy Tales last year? I'd love to be your white knight." Or make small talk while waiting outside an overcrowded classroom: "Hey, doesn't it suck waiting out here where we can't even hear the professor read the syllabus to us? Let's go get coffee and read it to each other...
...none of these pick-up lines work, try some old fashioned body language--catch someone's eye, hold it for a moment, smile and see what happens. If all else fails, simply say, "Hey, I didn't get a copy of the syllabus, could you e-mail me the first reading assignment? I really don't want to get behind." At the very least you've established a connection between you and the object of your affection and an e-mail conversation that you can agonize over for hours as you try to craft the perfect thank...
...pretty typical: forced piano lessons--again from my mother--for about eight years, and four years of drums. Since guitar wasn't offered, percussion--meaning drums!--was by far the coolest instrument choice a guy could have in grade school. Tuba ran a distant second. Why anyone would pick some instrument like the clarinet was beyond me. The chance to get a grade for beating things with sticks was irresistable...