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Clare Ondrey


A rare specimen

The Virginia men's club rugby team, the Virginia women's club rugby team and the Charlottesville men's rugby team all won their respective state tournaments last weekend.

Hunger pains

It's 4:45 p.m. right now, and I'm starving. I don't like to use the term "starving" in general because I feel like it demeans Angelina Jolie's work.

I love life (ha.)

Last week I had an interesting experience in a bar. With that opening statement this column could go in any direction.

Fourth year scares me

I always wanted to be head of the pack, cream of crop, bringing home the bacon, all that jazz. Being on top of the academic food chain, however, is not all that it's cracked up to be.

What's that smell?

I like to cook. My friends like to cook. Yes, I have friends. Some have suggested that I have friends only because I cook well, but enough speculation for now. We like to cook in my apartment.

I'm better than you

Disclaimer Number One: "I'm better than you" refers to the "I" in the collective sense, not in the "I, Clare Ondrey, am better than you, general Cavalier Daily reader." Disclaimer Number Two: The title of this piece is actually a phrase meant to question, and not state, the idea of the normalcy of our community and how we fit into the population of the world. Maybe I should have titled this, "Are we Normal?" but I thought it was too obvious.

The Spring Break Effect

Here at my research facility, also known as "Club Clemons" to lay people, I've been doing some background research on the effects of Spring Break on the student psyche. Boy, are the effects awesome. In one week, many of you, my faithful readers, will be lounging, drinking, clubbing and building houses. Wait, what? Ah yes, those of you with a conscience will be doing wonderful things for the good of humanity.

Sweet sixteen

Today is my little brother Joe's birthday. He turns 16. That sweet age where you can take to the road for the first time or have MTV tape a show about your spoiled life. Joe's not doing the latter at any point, but he will get behind a wheel of a car, a very scary thought for me.

What what what would you do?

Cable star Mark Summers captured my eight-year-old heart during my after school snack time. The pie slide, the wall of unknowns, the pie pod -- what else could an elementary school student ask for? "Double Dare" and the family obstacle course took up the next half-hour of joy.

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