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is there a noun form of "sophomoric"? - by jessica dai

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Last December, I wrote about waving to the guy who sets up the cafe on my way to the office. In the spring I started taking a different path to work some mornings and started seeing him less often; Poulet closed in the summer and I only ate there once, in its last week of business. I started boxing often enough that both the instructor and front desk person knew me by name, that I thought it would be worth it to commit to a membership, and the month immediately after I had to cancel because I couldn’t keep up. For a couple of months I established a routine of taking the 9am BART to catch the 10am intermediate class at Lines, lunch at the little cafe around the corner, then the Civic Center farmers’ market for a basket (or three) of giant winter strawberries. I did this often enough that the sandwich guy started recognizing me and my order — cappuccino and a sandwich, half for here and half to go — and the strawberry guy would pack my baskets with way more berries than he charged me for

Last December, I wrote about waving to the guy who sets up the cafe on my way to the office. In the spring I started taking a different path to work some mornings and started seeing him less often; Poulet closed in the summer and I only ate there once, in its last week of business. I started boxing often enough that both the instructor and front desk person knew me by name, that I thought it would be worth it to commit to a membership, and the month immediately after I had to cancel because I couldn’t keep up. For a couple of months I established a routine of taking the 9am BART to catch…

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