Tri-Factor: The Water Tower Extraordinaire

Published April 22, 2008

A day in the life of Leamund Zheng

By Anya Brodrick, Illustration by Alexander Whitehead
This section deconstructs the styles of today. The tripartite nature of the section demonstrates the intersection of image-word-mathematics.

9:00 am: Roll out of bed after spending all night people watching / studying at Muddy’s. Walk up to class on Pearl Street, take mental notes of what people are wearing, talking about, etc.

10:28 am: Cup of coffee at the library. Check out posters and fliers to see if anything was missed/anything new put up. Casually strike up conversation with reference librarian to see what the most asked question was last week. Consider assigning someone to write article on how many people actually don’t know where the bathroom is on the first floor.

11:58 am: Stroll through the Davis Center (in side entrance to casually walk by Cynic office. Bastards, they have an entire office, we just get a cubicle!)

12:16 pm: Leaf through the dozens of articles they have to edit—spelling, tone, tense, point of view…there’s so much more to keep track of than everyone thinks! Do they want to run the article on how the local music scene is getting more and more commercialized (locals/musician/student appeal) or the expose on the crazy Davis Center recycling practices (students/activists/environmental studies majors appeal)?

1:35 pm: Head to creative writing class—wants to hear classmates’ stories in case there’s some hidden talent lurking around.

3:00 pm: Enjoys the sun and a cup of coffee outside the library. It’s in between classes so there’s plenty of people watching.

3:42 pm: Checks out nytimes.com—has to stay connected to the world outside of UVM (yes, it’s out there and it IS real!)

6:00 pm: Heads home to grab a bite, then it’s off to stroll around downtown; see what’s coming up for the weekend and how they have to divide their time…it’s see and occasionally be seen.

9:45 pm: Head home to work on some homework/more editing. Even though they love The Water Tower, they still want to graduate on time so they’re not stuck as a ‘non student correspondent.’

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