OF A GOLDEN AGE

most married couples who have gone to college MET in college and that thought terrifies me deep in my soul. saturday my friend carl, carl who plays frisbee and prides himself on mixing gross things together in the cafeteria, who lived next door to my best friend from high school when we first got to beloit — one of the FIRST PEOPLE i ever met at beloit — is getting married. in what universe is my most immature friend the first one to get married? carl’s favorite drink used to be a bottle of 99 bananas mixed into a gallon plastic jug of fruit punch!

in the middle ages in france, the northerners spoke langue d’oïl (later langue d’oui), a name basically meaning that language where they say oïl for “yes.” in the south, they spoke langue d’oc, again for the word for “yes.” modern french is from langue d’oïl, but languedoc is the name of a very-south and central-lying french province that shares a border with spain. it also refers to the wine they produce there.