<p>I just got a kick out of this, particularly the Salvadore Dali piece so thought anyone who’s kid might have had a tough year would enjoy this…but don’t show it to the students, it might give them ideas.
[The</a> 8 Most Successful People EXPELLED From College](<a href=“The 9 Most Successful People EXPELLED From College | HuffPost College”>The 9 Most Successful People EXPELLED From College | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>Oh my grammar, sorry, time for either a nap or more coffee, think I’d better go for more coffee and get back to work.</p>
<p>smarty dear have a coffee and cheer up
she was a student at the Portland state OR broke and no idea what she was about to get into…
she sounds humble, very nice. bet stock option took care well.
it might be better that she won’t count how many swoosh!!s she could have gotten paid by if she’d known better and written up contract as such.</p>
<p>[NPR</a> Media Player](<a href=“http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=137376121&m=137376103]NPR”>http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=137376121&m=137376103)</p>
<p>Okay I admit it, I have an odd and macabre sense of humor. You didn’t find this sort of amusing and interesting bears?
Can’t get your link to work, it’s my old and aged computer I guess.</p>
<p>I did
I liked the fact every geezer looked half decent when they were young, even Ted, Kennedy or Turner for that matter.
you still need to be admitted to H (or B or Morehouse)before you’d get expelled, you know. for Dali, don’t know how hard to get in to Spanish art academy.</p>
<p>hummm yours must be as dead as mine at home.
try NPR site, ‘all things considered’ today’s story. I think they got written text if audio won’t work.</p>
<p>here, summary only, sorry</p>
<p>June 23, 2011
It’s the 40th anniversary of the Nike Swoosh. Designer Carolyn Davidson talks about creating the symbol when she was a college student. She’s happy no one recognizes her: Although her symbol is famous, she’s not.</p>
<p>Thanks for the “translation”.
Yeah, my computer doesn’t do a lot of the new video stuff because it can’t handle the update needed. Word from my techie husband is that there’s no way around it but to buy a new updated computer. But it’s still good for what I need for my work so I refuse to scrap it. The up side is that I probably get more done since I can’t view a lot of videos.</p>
<p>Today NYC public HS had graduation.
my kid’s school got more girls than boys but all academic awards are won by girls.
four NMScholars are ALL girls. it is bit of concern.
what concerned me the most was that, the fancy leather binder he received at the ceremony was empty!!!
I saw his GC (who was really helpful in helping way) at the reception and asked if his was left empty on purpose for barely (really) graduating.
she LOLed, said
“I should have warned YOU!! all are like that, diploma comes in mail later”
gawk!!
later I said to my kid who of course never bother to open the binder to see inside before dumping it on me
“You didn’t get diploma!! you know, it’s empty!?”
He freaked out and asked some other kids to see theirs.
then it wasn’t funny any more.
Why would they do ceremony before things are ready, is I guess that’s the only way to get things done.
The dept. of Ed would want as many kids to meet standard so they could boost 4 years graduation rate by the end of summer.
There would be summer school, August retake of regents tests, it ain’t over till it’s over.
for us, I think it is over.<br>
Happy occasion it should be but gawd I am exhausted from five years HS stretch.
so done.</p>
<p>Congratulations, Bears and to Bears Kid too!! It’s great to be D-O-N-E. I have two more years to go. Aspie girl will graduate next year (God willing) and Manga girl the year after. There is so much less stress with the second kid. Maybe it’s just because I have much lowered expectations about what the plan with Aspie girl will be. We haven’t done ANY college visits (unless you count the visit to Renssalaer Polytechnic three years ago – and we had to drag her kicking and screaming to that – and the visit was mostly for D1s benefit). Knowing Manga girl, she will just figure stuff out for herself and announce her choice to me at the last minute.
Today was my last day at the office. The building was sold and we had to vacate the building by 5pm today. I’m supposed to ‘work at home’ until the 30th (well really the 29th, since they want me to bring back their computer on the 30th) and then I will officially join the ranks of the unemployed. Maybe D1 will be up for a trip to the city. Who knows.</p>
<p>D announced a year early that she will not attend the graduation ceremony after she attended her friend’s one. She said it was boring. This is part of the reason we let her graduated half year earlier and send her to China Academy of Art for a semester. We totally skipped all the graduation activities. I feel a little bit lost something but she don’t like this kind stuff.
I got to attend my nephew’s college graduation ceremony, I feel it is fun. The folder is empty, this will help them hand over wrong one? I guess.
D-O-N-E?! Maybe in 5 minutes and then you will face the new start, but still
Congrats, Bears!
Wish you have a nice little break and find a new job soon,Gmom!</p>
<p>hey thanx moms
wow love
you are up early (or late)
wait wait
even nice state like Iowa would give out empty folder?
I can see it save confusion but that is sort of silly!!
it is all staged for staging sake
so I learned something new.</p>
<p>Congratulations BandD and little bears…More and more I appreciate how hs graduation really is a testament to parental and kid endurance … endurance to slog through the sometimes arcane stuff that kids are forced to learn and the weird and tortuous methods they use to teach it (does anyone remember learning the state song …"alabama, alaska, arizona…"and spelling triangles…the glories of virginia history or of whatever state you live in…and for trig…the unit circle…etc.). then there is the endurance of hormonally driven personality conflict (teen and mom both)…</p>
<p>Congratulations on a successful result–diploma (in the mail) and healthy teen that is still on speaking terms with parent!</p>
<p>yay fammom launch saved!!
sooo is VA school got empty holder?</p>
<p>the art forum was dead over the weekend and out of boredom, I spied on buzzing parent turf with heavy duty muzzle.
well, kids are done, means all SATs IIs scores in, which moms checked early in the morning like 3AM when came out because they can’t sleep worrying about, made the cut, sent them to like dozen schools already, now on vacation before kid’s summer enrichment starts, during of which family meeting while abroad to discus which school (I mean Ivy) should be shoot ED comes fall, Penn is the easiest, no It’s Cornell, oh but Y or S or bust!!!
helloo reality
I mean, there teens are speaking terms, totally, no?
wait, are you one of them now hun? hum?</p>
<p>Someone broke in D’s new apartment in Brooklyn. Roommate said her computer got stolen. D said: mom, it is scary. What I should do if I was in the room and someone break in? Of course find a way OUT, keep yourself safe is more important. Hope this won’t happen. D said when the guy got in her roommate wake up and saw the guy … It is scary for that girl.</p>
<p>D get up about 6 in the morning everyday and run 1 hour between breakfast and lunch. The rest of her time is read and write. Write a lot fanfiction and told me she started to get nice reviews. She changed her mind, didn’t send me her stories. I did try to encourage her by telling her her writing is good but she stopped me saying: “mom, I know what I am good at and not good at”. Yesterday, She told me her writing finally come back after writing many days. She did three paintings in total till now. she didn’t touch her web site at all. That is not in her mind yet. I need to learn to have her live her own speed.</p>
<p>I am a little spoiled her now. Didn’t use her to do any chore for me. Feel her time to live under my care is running out, let her be my baby this summer. She agree she is lazy and try to get by without help me much. She did bake a pie for me one day and if I ask she will cook some rice before I got home.</p>
<p>I work from home today and just complained to her that I didn’t seems to want to work … She told me, hurry up, you got to have the discipline like what I have… I feel funny to hear her lesson to me</p>
<p>I’m so sorry to hear this. Tell your daughter and her roommate to have the locks changed immediately. How did he get in? They need to have at least two inside locks on that door and USE THEM. Even if they go to the laundry room, lock the door. Also all windows should have additional safety locks on the inside, not just that little tab that you turn. If there is a fire escape by a window that window should especially be secured. In NY there’s a type of metal grating you can have installed that can be opened from the inside in case of fire.</p>
<p>Lock your doors the moment you enter your apartment. Never have unlocked doors when you are home. This is just plain common sense living in New York stuff. Your daughter’s roommate and you and your daughter need to figure out how he got in and make sure that that apartment is secure. The girls need to realize that this is serious, your daughter’s roommate is lucky.</p>
<p>I’m so glad nothing happened outside the loss of the computer. I worry so much about kids from less urban areas moving to colleges in the cities. I remember a girl who was at MICA who was mad because she was scolded about not locking her door. If you are living in a city even on a college campus your doors SHOULD BE LOCKED EVEN WHEN YOU ARE HOME. Never, ever go to the trash compactor or laundry room and leave your door unlocked. Please girls (and boys) be overly careful.</p>
<p>Bears - congrats to you and your S. I always feel it is a major accomplishment to get them from one milestone to the next. They should have told the kids that the diploma folder wold be empty. They do that everywhere I guess, I know my D’s was empty, and after the ceremony they had to go inside the school and get them.</p>
<p>Love - scary, scary thing. Make sure the locks they put on are deadbolts and if the door has a window in it (which I doubt if its a front door) are located away from a window. Kitchens are usually the only doors with windows. Otherwise someone could break the window and turn the knob from the inside, making the lock useless. D always yelled at us for not locking our doors, it became a habit when we lived in Maine and the door swelled shut in the weather and it wouldn’t close enough for the locks to engage. So for years we left it open with never a problem. Now she keeps reminding us to lock the doors, and she’s totally right, as we have had break ins in our area.</p>
<p>I have always worried about my space cadet D1’s attitude towards safety type issues. She is the type that will not give a door or an open window a second thought (maybe not even a first thought). All the krav maga classes in the world are not going to change her from a space cadet into a dudley doright. She is just that absent minded – and her ADHD is severe enough that it would play into it too. On the other hand, she is having more and more anxiety issues. Maybe this new med isn’t working so well on the anxiety end of things. She is constantly sleeping on the couch in the living room now (she claims so she can ‘wake up early’, but that doesn’t actually happen, I’m up and about and she’s still lying on the couch) which is something she used to do right after 9/11, so I tend to think it is anxiety related. She started an art class at the community college yesterday, but on Sunday she asked me if I would drive her there because she was feeling so anxious about it. She saw her psychiatrist yesterday and I urged her to talk to him about the anxiety, but I don’t think she did that because she was in and out of that office in five minutes flat. Now that she’s 18, I don’t get to go talk to him afterwards like I did before.<br>
I was comfortable with the commons at MICA because they seemed pretty secure even if she did leave the door unlocked (plus there were two room mates – well at the end, just the one, but still…)
I am counting down the hours… two days of work left before unemployment…got my last paycheck and vacation pay. Waiting on the severance package…</p>
<p>Thanks all for the tips!
I feel D’s roommate is lucky also. It is true, we didn’t pay attention to this kind of stuff, and will make sure D be careful.
I will ask my D to remind her roommate to be careful.
Gmom:
I always have your daughters especially your D1 in my mind and in my prayer. I am sorry I mention pray here. But that is my way to release my worry. I pray for my daughter everyday. After that I feel relaxed and in peace.</p>
<p>if this would change the moooooood
loveblue
legendary Iowan Butter Cow sculpture lady passed away but left her legacy in young protege.
[Iowa’s</a> ‘Butter Cow Lady,’ A ‘Born Artist,’ Has Died : The Two-Way : NPR](<a href=“Iowa's 'Butter Cow Lady,' A 'Born Artist,' Has Died : The Two-Way : NPR”>Iowa's 'Butter Cow Lady,' A 'Born Artist,' Has Died : The Two-Way : NPR)
I bet babyblue can make cow or two, no? def. da Vinci diorama out of butter!!</p>
<p>I know this lady, butter cow lady. I mean I know her name,
It is fun to have this kind of fair each year. So many fun products to buy, fresh and home made.
Good idea babyblue can make some conceptual cow, or other animal out of butter!
babyblue said Iowa didn’t have art, that is not fair.</p>