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I slowly slide my foot into it, and find myself surprised at how I have to wiggle and twist my toes to make them fit into their individual sections of the shoe. I then push my foot forward so that it perfectly fits within the shoe, and adjust the strap.

If it’s not the aquamarine eyes of the boy behind the counter that captures your attention, it’s probably the plethora of fish in the tank. Moving down the line at Bear Flag Fish Co. in Newport Beach, there are seafood deli items like tuna poke and calamari salad, juicy slabs of halibut and wild salmon, thick cuts of Ahi tuna, and gobs of raw shrimp beside other ocean life not often seen at the local market.

“They’re going to riot if you don’t get out there.”

At first, fourth-year Jon Sahagian didn’t even like Pokémon. Everyone was trying to “catch ’em all,” precisely why he didn’t want to get involved in the fad. It was only afterward when he began to watch the TV show and play the games a bit when he had a change of heart. While others halted their quest, Sahagian took Pokémon fandom to a whole new level.

On any given Thursday night this quarter, if you turned on your television and flipped to MTV, you would have seen an Anteater on the screen.

PHOTOS: The last edition of ZotShots for the year.

REGGAE: Photo coverage of Reggaefest 2011.

Does 15 percent off make you do a double-take? Does a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale make your heart race and your mouth water?

Some more photos from the past week.

The door slammed shut as my fellow traveler got into my car. An ordinary UC Irvine story: a 10-minute drive to Fashion Island was in store and that was going to be the end of that. That 10-minute drive turned into a two-hour odyssey under circumstances that would only make sense in some buddy comedy.

We face limited options as June nears. For some, certainty comes in the form of graduate school; for others, it’s moving back home with mom and dad. Either way, our college days are coming to an end.

They say that relationships are all about compromise. You’re supposed to embrace the things you have in common with one another and accept the differences. But when you’re dating a germaphobe, you have to throw a couple of those things out the window. Welcome to my world. My name is Kristen, and I am dating a germaphobe.