Space Geographer Part 7

Morgan Hannah Life & Style Editor

There’s something very human about this thing that stands before me.

This idea is incredibly unsettling, but it lands hard and sticks like rubber cement to my brain. I can feel anxiety seeping into each fold of the greyish pink organ resting inside my skull. I’ve got to shake this off! ma goddamn Space Geographer!

It is my mission to explore new landscapes and report back on what I find. It is my mission to bridge the knowledge gap between man and unexplored territory!

Opening the makeshift sack full of supplies I piled together, I find the translator. It’s a sleek grey remote-like rectangle with a half-moon glass panel and a faded persimmon dial. I’m more relieved than ever before that the device has a microphone and speaker built-in for listening and interpreting languages, as 1 wouldn't even have the faintest idea where to begin when trying to decode something that sounds like what I imagine a cockroach on AMR would sound like.

It is such a completely perplexing noise that it almost seems fitting to belong to an alien. Aiming the microphone at the gaping maw of this life- sized pickle of a creature, I fiddle with the dial, hoping—no, praying—that something will come of this. What I find is even more unsettling than the distinct thought that this brined vegetable-like creature is quite human...

“Mask... quick... mask...”

daily dairy diary

White like the tiles in the bathroom

or on the kitchen floor. Cold, my toes press against the tiles

as I traverse

towards the

fridge.

Exuberant in youth- fullness with strawberry, chocolate. Not soy.

Plain was silk enough so good I'd say;

downing one two three twenty— far too many.

My toes have had enough of this bathroom floor.

The tiles are cold.

Soam I.

Illustration by Morgan Hannah

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Weekly crossword: Sleepy...

Caroline Ho

Web Editor

ACROSS DOWN

1. To’s partner 1. Amphibious creature 4. Cab cost 2. Dino’s cry, cutely

8. Touch lightly

un. Ewe’s mate

12. Nothing, en frangais

13. Not many (2 wds.)

15. Possess

16. What a well-rested person might say (4 wds.)

19. Ursus arctos horribilis

21. Average

22. Edge

24. US/Can. verb ending

25. Knight's title

26. “Money ____ object”

27. Timber wolf

30. Prefix for 10

31. Early Holy Roman Emperor

32. Merit

33. Hawaiian taro dish

34. Area

36. Manga author Junji

37. Vitality

39. “I do,’ eg.

42. Move zippily

44. Prefix for one

45. Ernie’s pal

46. Cry of dismay

48. Goose egg

50. Cogito __ sum

51. Baseball star Ruth

52.__ -de-France

53. Chinese or Cambodian, briefly

55. Anger

56. Room coolers

57. Part of a bird’s stomach

61. Karate, for one (2 wds.)

64. Compete

65. Plant part

66. Margarine

67. Flightless bird

68. Punk subgenre

6g. Stinging insect

7o.__ publica

3. “Potent” or “present” prefix

4. Curls, in hair

5. Store section

6. Depend

7. WSW opposite

8. Tabloid photographers

g. In the distance

10. No. on a business card (abbr.)

14. Record low (2 wds.)

17. Heroic

18. Shade

20. Jewish homeland

23. Cow’s sound

25. Takeover

27. Island garland

28. Granola grain

29. 19-across (2 wds.)

30. Baker’s amt. (abbr.)

33. Plucked string instrument technique

35.1/16 lb.

37-314

38. Year, en espafiol

40. Website ender

41. Int'l commerce regulator (abbr.)

43. Gardening tool

45. Mercedes __

46. Japanese sash

47. Injury

49. Frozen queen

53. Buenos _

54. “La Grange” band (2 wds.)

56. Particle

57. Fancy fet

58. State assertively

59. Frost

60. __ ex machina

62. Fish eggs

63. Close to the ground

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