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Subject: [Leica] Aaron's PAW 17: Visiting my brother at college
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon May 2 09:46:01 2005

We just locked the door and left the key on it.
As if we needed it, since there is no roommate tradition over here.


> From: Aaron Sandler <aaron.sandler@duke.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon,  2 May 2005 12:25:11 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Aaron's PAW 17: Visiting my brother at college
> 
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> You were on the right track.  It's a tried and true method to let one's
> roommates know that the bedroom is occupied by more than the usual
> occupant...normally prevents embarassing situations.
> 
> In my day it was foolproof unless one's roommate had consumed an unnatural
> amount of alcohol, in which case he failed completely to notice the hanger 
> and
> barged right on in...fortunately he still remembered which bunk was his,
> avoiding an even more potentially embarassing situation!
> 
> Best,
> Aaron
> 
> Quoting Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>:
> 
>> Hi Aaron,
>> 
>> Explain the trick with the clothanger? A US Ivy league tradition?
>> Has it something to do with roommates or so?
>> (I think I can imagine what it does/meas though ;-)
>> 
>> Love the B&W BTW.
>> Thanks for showing,
>> Philippe
>> 
>>> From: Aaron Sandler <aaron.sandler@duke.edu>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Mon,  2 May 2005 11:43:17 -0400
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: [Leica] Aaron's PAW 17: Visiting my brother at college
>>> 
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> 
>>> Last weekend I went up to visit my brother who is a freshman at Yale...no
>> he's
>>> not slow, there's a 15 year age difference.  :)
>>> 
>>> The visit was fun...it was very energizing to be around so many young,
>>> interested, excited folks, not yet cynical...it was not so energizing to
>> sleep
>>> in the dorm rooms...nobody goes to sleep before 3am!
>>> 
>>> I also met my brother's girlfriend for the first time.  They're well
>> matched,
>>> physically...he's 6'5" and skinny, she's about 6'1" and rows crew so 
>>> she's
>>> very 
>>> strong...definitely much stronger than him...he sits on her lap!  They're
>> very
>>> publically lovey-dovey in a sort of naive way...I took a bunch of pix of
>> them
>>> together and ordered a few with the title "Young Love".
>>> 
>>> A few snaps from my visit:
>>> http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/PAW/2005_17/index.html
>>> 
>>> A study of Young Love:
>>> http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/PAW/2005_17/younglove.html
>>> 
>>> Comments welcomed and thanks for looking,
>>> Aaron
> 
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