Walk quietly, don’t make a sound / Believe in what you’re doing / I know we can’t be wrong
“A matter of time” by Los Lobos
Study hall as an undergraduate used to mean going to a crowded and noisy room in the student union. The only reason I went was to pass notes to my friends and flirt with the guy I liked. I’d only get studying done because I had to be there for a few hours and the study hall monitor shushed me for too much whispering. At midnight, hours after the last bus had left the UCLA transit center for Palms, I’d take the study hall van back to my apartment in Palms.
Study hall as a graduate student has taken on a whole different meaning. Yeah, I do get things done, but not without lots of discussion and a fair amount of smoking. Each time I go, I expect to read one fourth of what I’d read if I was at my apartment, yet learn four times more.
Photo: the top of Garu’s hookah, March 1, 2005. I haven’t smoked in months, mainly because I’ve been sick.
OMG! You! You a smoker! I don’t know why but I am amazingly stunned.
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i second that.
and I’m sure you guys only use the hookah for smoking tobacco, and nothing else
Yuck, do you chew tobacco too?
Hookah, huh? What flavor is your favorite? Love the pix btw.
Yep, i’m surprised too….. I would have never pegged you for one, but….. LET’S PARTY!
Elenamary,
I only smoke flavored tobacco and not cigarettes. It’s quite relaxing, but doesn’t necessarily help to study.
Kitti,
I don’t get it why people are so surprised.
Joel,
Yes, it’s only used for the strawberry and other fruit-flavored tobacco. We only do the legal stuff.
HP,
It’s rather un-yucky, and no, I don’t chew tobacco.
CAD,
I like the melon flavored tobacco, but I’m not sure it’s my favorite.
Jeff,
I feel like it’s really common around here, but that might just be my social circle.