<p>As I reported briefly in the “Best off CC” thread, d is firmly ensconsed at UTas, and willing to try and stick it out a year. She’s still vascillating between quantum mechanics and Old Norse as her true pursuit, yet is intent on taking religious orders after her degree. Right now, she’s purely a performance major as Yale will not accept any academic transfer credits from UTas.</p>
<p>Move in day was a major issue. She had 14 trunks, 2 instruments, and a pouch of sacred cutlery. Airfare was prohibitive, and her full package from UTas allowed one round trip air fare as part of COA, but it was based on ticket costs with oil at $45/brl.</p>
<p>We found the most cost effective means was by unflagged freighter. They did not charge extra for the trunks, but she was required to entertain the sailors, a crew of thirty, on a nightly basis. </p>
<p>She found the trip exhausting.</p>
<p>The dogs did not accompany her, and they are pining for her. Apparently the Australian authorities have problems with animal importation, I have no idea why. She does text them daily. (Anyone know of a really inexpensive family plan that allows unlimited texting over the international date line? We’re being billed for charges the day of, the day before, and the day after. Our carrier says it standard policy.)</p>
<p>violadad (may I still call you vd??)
Not to worry about the time zone/dateline thing. In dog years, you are only paying for a day for a weeks worth of texts</p>
<p>Thumper – I didn’t have to read any of the thread to know whose posts were deleted, and they’re trying hard again! {hint: ^^^^^^}</p>
<p>Violadad – have you considered having your D send the texts the other direction? Then you can get them the day before she sends them, and delete those you don’t want to get. Then you won’t have to pay for them.</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay–see post #998 for an explanation of how it comes to be back. (Not, alas, an explanation of the thread itself.)</p>
<p>Tell me again how this thread is saving us all time? I’m getting sucked into the CC black hole again. Must have something to do with that new collider.</p>
<p>My s is going to NYC tomorrow and may buy some bootlegged videos or other pirated stuff from street vendors. Does that count? Shiver me timbers…</p>
<p>OmG! this thread is back! More opportunities to spew hot tea all over my keyboard![ but it’s nice to have to thread on CC again that makes me laugh!]</p>
<p>Aye mateys. Today be talkin like a true pirate day. Shiver me timbers.</p>
<p>Tis time all ye crusty swobs start a behavin, lest ye be keel-hauled, tied to the mizzen in a ragin nor’easter and put on half rations of rum.</p>
<p>There’ll be no more moanin and bellyachin from this motley crew of guttersnipes, thieves and castaways about what colleges been rejectin your spry. Ain’t nary a life for the offspring o’ true seafarin souls anyway. Don’t be wastin no time and spendin hard fought plunder on teachin the youngins no booklearnin.</p>
<p>Give em a taste of the sea. There be plenty opportunity to be had as cabin boys, powder monkeys and servin wenches. Ain’t no school worth the gold that’ll train em in cannon loadin, sail-fixin and knot tyin. Don’t take no degree to throw a grapplin hook o’er the gunnel.</p>
<p>All hands on deck. Drop the main, haul the anchor and start tackin.</p>
<p>Today is S1’s birthday. Needless to say, S2 finds this situation horribly unfair - and (as he’s done every year since he became a pirate, which would be about three now) took me to task this morning for not arranging to have HIM on Talk Like a Pirate Day.</p>
<p>So I thought I’d see about re-birthing him this afternoon, and he could write about it in a new essay. What do you all think?</p>
<p>Be any of ye knowin a good place where I can snatch me a good eye patch?</p>
<p>The one I’s a wearin got a musket ball hole and a stain from an albatross with gunnery skills that would do Blackbeard proud. T’ain’t no amount of scrubbin with barnacles and beach sand that’ll git the spot out.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that the born-again essays are terribly off-putting to admissions. Perhaps you could just have him arranged to be captured and tortured today by another band of marauders or something more respectable like that.</p>
<p>Harriet, jest be tellin him you got the dates mixed up. When ye be dropping spawn left and right in every port o’ call yer recollection becomes taxed from remembering just when, where, and who the father be.</p>
<p>Tis an honest mistake, and he’ll be believin ya.</p>
<p>Git him a good parrot. He’ll forgit all about it.</p>
<p>Vdad, Ye be as boneheaded as a backwards blowfish! Harriet’s young-un alraedy HAS a parrot (as ye’d know if ye’d read post 46). It’s walkin’ the plank ye’ll be if ye can’t recollect that fer back!</p>