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KairenWong
was bornto two loving parentswho thought children were best raised in white rooms,away from bacteria andharmful influences. Theymanaged to prevent any seri-ous addictions until their filial daughter got hooked on Intermissionlayout in college. She also (gasp!) discovered the joys of skippinglecture (infrequently), but Kairen is still afraid of germs. No, shedoesn’t want a bit of that pizza you just bit or a sip of your sweet pearl milk tea. She loves you very much, but please, don’t touch her keyboard.
Joey Xu
(pronounced: Shoe) is an illusionist and aserious problem child. She may look like a nice, friendly personsometimes, but don’t be fooled. She loves to wear crazy clothes and her favorite place to go buy shoes is a stripstore. Since her parental units realizedthat she was going to be short for the restof her life (a harsh blow and great surpriseconsidering her parents’formidable stature),she has been forbidden from wearing flatshoes—or any heel below three inches for that matter. Her greatest desires are to get ina physical fight, live underwater for a year,get one more tattoo on top of the existingeight, go bald and never have to eat or sleep ever again in her life. She isdetermined to make all of these cometrue. You are most likely to find her living in her own bubble, whereshe is always reading WSJ, updating her fashion blog or wheedling people into writing for Intermission.
Welcome to Intermission!
As our loyal readers might already know after three issues,Kelsey, Mae and Alice all left with the last volume—leaving Intermission to a brand new staff! It’s a whileinto the volume already, but we thought we might introduce ourselves anyway. Beware, though: Weare a
very
quirky bunch. As a result, you are bound to see differences in content and layout thisvolume—such as the sudden increase in fashion-related articles. If there’s anyone to blamefor that, it’s me. If you have any complaints, compliments, suggestions, whatever, I’d loveto hear them. Feel free to email me at intermission.daily@gmail.com. Until then!Let’s be clear:
Jin Yu
is a female.Alot of Chinese guys are named Jin,and a lot of Chinese people have thelast name Yu—but make no mis-take, Jin Yu is a full-blooded Koreanfemale. There are only a few things you needto know about her: A) She was abandoned by her parents at age six and again at age13. B) She likes to say she loves to draw, but when she really has to draw, shedoesn’t want to draw. C) She likes draw-ing naked ladies. She can do it all day.She’s done it all day. If you find anyweird or inappropriate doodlesstuck on Intermission...shhh, but she did it.
Amanda Zhang
is a New York City-native transplanted to the scary world of palm trees, clean air (relatively speaking) and driv-ing everywhere. She misses eating shitty Greek diner food at 4 a.m., but she doesn’t miss the constructionworkers at the site one block away. Amanda isobsessed with knee-high boots, tiny little dresses,wearing all black and fashion in general. That and her position as photo editor means she spends way toomuch time per week looking at pictures online. Sheloves sushi and Indian food, and—most crucial fact —her favorite Disney movie is “Pocahontas.” She is fluent in three lan-guages. You can tell her apart from everyone else on Intermission from her hair—it’s getting way too long. She has a two-year-old half-sister named Lea and a 10-year-old half-brother named Yves (as in YvesSaint Laurent). Amanda has adopted quite a few manner-isms from her little sister, including pronouncingthe word “egg” as “eeg.”
Kyle Evaldez
—our newly appointeddesk-editor—could not be present to write a biography of himself.He’s too busy celebrating his upper-classman status. (Read: He’s partying itup at Senior Night.) However, you probably remember him as the guy whowrote all those Oscar lead-up movie reviews. But now that the Oscars areover, he’s still writing movie reviews...so we took the hint and justdragged him onto staff. Expect even
more
—if that’s even possible—from him soon.
Annika Heinle
was born in the far reaches of Siberia and was raised by a pack of wolves. She learned the Englishlanguage from a prisoner with whomshe roomed in the Gulag (a Russianconcentration camp), where she alsolearned how to distill a fine potatovodka. After escaping the Gulag andsimultaneously killing four members of the KGB, she moved to the great nationof America and began attending regular school with regular children —not wolves. Annika learned that music and movies were her life. She then came to Stanford and was
shocked
to find the publication that is Intermission. Intermission was basicallya conglomeration of everything she knows and loves...so naturally she is now the desk editor of this incredible, life-saving piece of art.
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