<p>In a sad type of way, I am actually looking forward to my S not being at home so much. We have had a house full of “other peoples kids” (I only have one) for the past 14 years or so. We have come home to some surprise parties (surpise only to me and my wife) with upwards of 100 high school (and a few college) students. Arg</p>
<p>When we went to watch the USC band clinic performance, we were kind of surprised to see how many of our hometown kids who happen to be students at USC actually went to the concert. I am assuming that they stayed at USC on that weekend. But I have also been surprised to occasionally see some USC students in our hometown, or even in our home, on weekends and sometimes even on weekdays when they should be in columbia. I don’t know whats up with dat.</p>
<p>When I was in college, I almost always went home, but I ownly lived 30 minutes away. With gas prices like they are, I really can’t see students going home that much these days.</p>
<p>My son only has one more full weekend at home, he is even gone this weekend. He will be touring with a musical youth group all summer and will actually leave the weekend before graduation, come back for graduation, then leave again the next day. Then two days later he will go to the USC summer orientation, and drive back to his music group in
GA. We will have to go to GA to pick up his car, then we will not see him until August because their only nearby performance will be in Atlanta in August. His tour actually doesn’t end until a few days after move in at USC (so he will miss the USC marching band camp), so we will have to drive to atlanta, pick him up late in the evening and return home, the next day he will have to leave early in the morning to start USC. fortunately there are several other USC students who are doing the exact same thing, so he won’t be the only one missing out on those first few days.</p>