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Katrina Olsen

Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger

Katrina Olsen. Senior in journalism. There may be writing.

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Teacher Tidbit: June 2014

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
June 9, 2014

What teacher has been a vegetarian since 1966? Blaze Newman Blaze has gone meatless for almost half a century. When questioned about her drive for such a life style, her response was, “Charlotte’s...

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Logophile: What Makes Your Wing Ding?

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
March 21, 2014

We’ve all seen it. Floating in the corners of our vision. Hiding in nonsense. But, how many of us have actually stopped and asked the ultimate question: what in the world are “Wingdings”? Unfortunately,...

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Fresh Faces

Claire Brady Can you describe your rock climbing? How often do you do it for? Where do you do it? I rock climb at minimum twice a week, but usually more. I have had weeks were I climb every single...

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The Canyon Crest Academy Writers Conference: Part 1

“I am dorkily excited that there are kids that already recognize that they want to be writers,” keynote speaker Kristin Elizabeth Clark starts the fourth annual Canyon Crest Academy Writers Conference,...

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Fingers Crossed for “Star-Crossed”

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
February 21, 2014

Romeo and Juliet meets aliens in The CW’s new series, “Star-Crossed” (get it? get it?). The year is 2024 and 10 years ago aliens crashed landed onto Earth. We humans, being reasonable beings,...

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Logophile: The Book Thieves of America

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
February 7, 2014

There are times when I walk out of our Encinitas Library, fumbling with the door handle around my armful of books, DVDs, and a stray CD, wondering, “How on earth can this be legal?” There are places...

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[Photo] Fire Drill

By Sierra Zounes, Online Editor
January 14, 2014

Students evacuate their classrooms, nearly making it to the new track.

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Logophile: Dissociative Book Identity Disorder

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
January 9, 2014

Dissociative Book Identity Disorder /dɪˈsoʊʃitɪv bʊk aɪˈdentəti dɪsˈɔrdər/: A state of mind where a person has multiple, dueling memories of a single book. This newly-discovered psychological...

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Logophile: Species for the Soul

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
December 19, 2013

We’ve seen oodles of werewolves, vampires, shapeshifters, and ghosts. Oodles of boring. But every once and a while, when drowning in the death pool that is free eBooks, you’ll run across the more obscure...

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The Relative Problem

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
December 11, 2013

Dear Knowledgeable Katrina, I’m at a family event and desperately want to finish my amazing book so I can catch up with everyone! But everyone keeps interrupting to ask what I’m reading! This way,...

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Almost Human Not Even Almost Interesting

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
November 22, 2013

The year is 2048 and the world has barely changed. Sure, there are robots and some no-longer-impressive hologram computers but, past that, imagine our world. Place inside that world your average “cop...

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Forum Report- 11/13/13

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
November 14, 2013

At the Nov. 13 Forum about 30 people battled the ever-present question: How can we use spirit to improve SDA? The Spirit Sprint “All of our sports teams should feel appreciated and supported by...

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The Library Book Sins

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
November 13, 2013

We have common courtesies for everything from “Bless you” at a sneeze to how long to open the door for someone behind you. Soon your whole life will be consumed with pushing in chairs and pulling them...

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
October 16, 2013

Once upon a time there was a television show that explored an original plot and pushed its limits. This is not that show. So we have Alice (little known actor, Sophie Lowe) in a mental institution....

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Gravity

By Katie McPherson and Katrina Olsen
October 11, 2013

In space no one can hear you scream. In this thriller, a team of three astronauts suffer and deal with the aftermath of a catastrophic event as they struggle to get back to Earth. Which, as you can...

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File Away These Philes

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
October 8, 2013

So we’ve heard about the “philes” that get you arrested like pedo and necro, the ones that get you shanked in prison. But the phile prefix really just means love. If you love something, why not declare...

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Who Will I Be? Well . . .

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
September 29, 2013

So we've all been asked “The Question:” the “Where are you going/What will you be doing/Who will you be” question. May it be from parents, teachers, friends, foes, uncles, grandmothers or strangers...

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Novel Massacre Coming Soon to Theaters Near You

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
September 23, 2013

Remember the years when all the close movie theaters closed and all the movies sucked? When the plots weren’t interesting, the lines not funny, and the 3D just in-your-face? Well, that was just the calm...

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It’s Time to Turn the Page

By Katrina Olsen, Staff Blogger
September 17, 2013

Such taglines do not a good book make. Finding a best seller goes past asking the local bookstore what books are off the shelves since one can buy physical or electronic books from Amazon, Half, Alibris,...

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