<p>Checking in over lunch - was texting with D both last night and this morning. Her school was cancelled today. They are farther west, but with public transportation shut down, the faculty and staff had no way to get to campus.</p>
<p>Her bf’s lab is near the area of the shooting last night, but he was already home at the time.</p>
<p>Upsetting stuff.</p>
<p>As luck would have it, ShawD got a ride home last night to attend on of our family friend’s sons play at ShawD’s HS. So, she is here. As is ShawSon. All local universities and schools are closed. I’m not worried about anyone bad finding his way here. Most people get lost on the way here anyway.</p>
<p>Glad your family can be together while this is still going on, shawbridge.</p>
<p>So, just went down to the Caltech campus and got D2 a couple of things for her birthday next week. Campus looks beautiful right now (everything is in bloom), and the bookstore had a pretty clever mug and cute t-shirt. Kind of fun to imagine her there some day.</p>
<p>Also, she applied for a teacher’s aide position in the school district for summer school – 5 weeks, half days. She just got a letter saying she’s been hired as a teacher’s aide, although the contracts themselves call her a Teacher and the pay is commensurate with a Teacher not an aide. So I hope that’s right because if so it’s good money.</p>
<p>The classes she is asked to do? Not science; not math – her major/minor: but Knit/Stitch/Crochet. I think this is because she put down one of her skills was “costuming” (she designs / sews costumes). </p>
<p>So need to check it out. It pushes right up to the time she leaves for Germany, but pays more money for 5 weeks than she’s made in any of the 3 10-week research internships she’s done.</p>
<p>She said she’s already planning the projects. Hope they don’t right and say oops! We meant aide …</p>
<p>Moda thanks for the kind words regarding S. and also to others with supportive words. He does seem to be doing well with two A’s and a B+ for last quarter. I was not ready for him to leave as quickly as he did in our everyday lives, that is for sure. D has been in and out for the last 5 years and still feels part of things here. But then she is not married. He was not a ton of fun to live with but I had high hopes!
D called and is unhappy as BF gave a 40 minutes speech and thanked everyone under the sun and esp. his parents for being there but did not mention D. She helped with his speech (she is an amazing writer) and listened over and over…:(.
She let it go for the evening but will talk to him when they are alone. I was very careful with my response and she did say she did not think was due to his relationship with his parents. She thinks he was anxious and just missed a beat.
I really like this guy and no one is perfect so we shall see.
I am so glad to read that everyone is safe. Just heard that they still do not have 2nd suspect. He looks so very young.</p>
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<p>Oregon – I felt the same way when D1 got married the year after she graduated from college: I wasn’t ready for the family “unit” to change so early, especially since we still had D2 coming home regularly for breaks, etc. I can imagine for you the adjustment was far greater. It is good to hear that he and his young family are doing well!</p>
<p>Well, glad they grabbed the younger guy in Watertown without any more people being hurt.</p>
<p>Zetesis – that is really funny. Just when you think that the “other interests” section is pretty useless on a resume…</p>
<p>Speaking of resumes, I just received the resume from the son of a friend, who is looking for work in this area (his folks live here) – but he’d left his far away university address on the resume, which I don’t think will help him with a lot of local employers. Thoughts? </p>
<p>I’m really – really – glad tomorrow is Saturday. It has been a hell of a week.</p>
<p>arabrab - D’s resume had both her college address and home address included - college (current) on the left side of the page and home (permanent) on the right. Career services recommendation. It seemed to do the trick. </p>
<p>Zetesis, your D is living a charmed life! Somehow I doubt D’s other interests (which I don’t even think are on her resume) would lead to gainful employment!</p>
<p>Just checking in to say “hello”. I keep up with the thread daily.</p>
<p>eddieo, I hope you are well.</p>
<p>With a little help from me, ShawD started applying for summer jobs at hospitals. She will be taking some classes in the summer, so can’t work full time, but thinks she could do two or three 12 hour shifts. She is just using the hospital websites responding to posted jobs. I’ve never applied for jobs in an automated way – it was all about knowing people to get an introduction to persuade them that while I didn’t necessarily have the set of credentials that they might have thought they were looking for, what I offered was somehow great, mysterious and valuable. Is applying through the websites a good way to do things?</p>
<p>We do have connections who know ShawD at some of these hospitals, but very high up (Department Head or CEO or head of group to whom hospital CEO reports) and not likely to have anything to do with who they hire for low level summer jobs. I’m not sure whether they could help and if this is the time to ask for help even if they could.</p>
<p>Too tired and drained from the week that was to post anything of substance. Went banquet dress shopping last night with younger D and found 2 of the three she needs (okay - wants) [If everyone didn’t plaster every event all over Facebook they could wear the same dress to multiple events.] She was content to shop at the inexpensive places and even wear shoes she already has.</p>
<p>It’s going to be a beautiful day, but I can’t find the orange hibiscus that I want to plant. </p>
<p>Hope the news settles down for a while.</p>
<p>shaw, from everything I read applying to jobs through the Internet has a very low rate of success (maybe 2%). Landing a position through connections has far more success. The CEO of a hospital might forward your D’s resume to a few department heads, who forward it on down the line until they get to the level where someone is looking. I wouldn’t hesitate to use connections, if you have them. All they can do is say no.</p>
<p>eddieo…Have missed you a bunch! Hope you are feeling well and have some sun shining on you! 
How are things going ??? Graduation plans???</p>
<p>shaw…having a family member in healthcare and hearing about HR decisions I would advise you to use the connections.</p>
<p>Hi Eddieodessa – I hope the flowers are blooming where you are – around here the daffodils are crawling around the ground after a good battering of snow this past week.</p>
<p>On the snow front: it is filthy. Everywhere you look the snow is…brown. Ick. There must have been a heck of a lot of dust in the air during the snowstorm; I can’t remember a time when it ever looked so yucky. Cars are all filthy too. I guess there will be a long line at the carwash tomorrow.</p>
<p>Because I left town last Saturday, I finally got around to reading last Sunday’s newspaper yesterday. The big news last Sunday? Everyone was still talking about Tiger Woods’ ball drop. Seems like 20 years ago, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>Hi everyone. Yes, flowers are blooming. This week I had an Easter Lily and a vase of yellow tulips on our kitchen table. Odessagirl is exhausted and happy with her student teaching. She slept 16 hours Friday night. No big Graduation plans as of yet. Grandparents are not well or mobile enough to attend. Maybe we will have a dinner or cook-out a little later. Our little Maltese dog, Georgie, h
ad surgery this week to remone a mass on his spleen and his spleen. Waiting on biopsy results.</p>
<p>It has been a long and exhausting week.</p>
<p>Eddie I hope your Georgie is ok. The flowers sound lovely, nothing like fresh flowers.</p>
<p>Hope Georgie will be okay,eddie.</p>
<p>I love fresh flowers too. I bought a bunch of cheap pink pixie carnations almost 3 weeks ago at the local wholesale florist. They were not open yet when I bought them so they have lasted a long time. I’ve enjoyed seeing them every day and for 5 bucks, I think I might start buying fresh flowers more often.</p>
<p>We will have dinner at the hotel’s restaurant associated with the college for graduation. It is also my husband’s birthday (and coincidentally older son’s graduation 4 years ago was also on husband’s birthday). My son is coming from DC and my sister is coming as well. Former neighbors who have known my son since he was one are also joining us for dinner(the husband is an alumni of the school). So, will be a small group but should be nice. And we will probably give him his gifts at dinner. There is a departmental ceremony as well the next morning but think we will give him the gifts at dinner after the main ceremony. Anybody else made their plans yet?</p>
<p>GF’ S finally, tonight, decided on a college. The H and W are not of one mind but there is a decision. I put my long narrow foot in my mouth a few weeks ago as I told GF that we had not been impressed with this U and would not have paid for it. Yikes. She seems to have forgotten and I hope so…
D called and her flight on United was cancelled due to mechanical problems and they offered her a flight for Tues. night. (!). Her BF did an amazing job and told her to get a taxi to the other WA. airport and he got her flight to a nearby city. Still, he is still in the doghouse for not thanking her at the speech. Also, his mom is driving her nuts so I look extra special nice now :).
I have about 7 dozen tulips in my flower raised bed and it is so fun to give them away and to have them in the house. My favorite flower.
Hope Georgie is doing OK. We have D’s little dog now and went walking with her in her yellow raincoat. A guy yelled “I had to come to Portland to see a dog in a raincoat!”
Must live a sheltered life.</p>
<p>That was DC airport and she got as far as Boston tonight.
Will stay with friends and make it back to Providence tomorrow but who knows where her suitcase is…</p>
<p>Send GF a good tease about making the Parent’s weekend reservations now for next fall.
It is a fine choice for their S but they have no idea how this goes. She lived at home in Spain and went to school and H went 2 hours from home 20 years ago.
Happy but anxious for them as they really have no idea about the expense and the amount of time it takes to make all of this happen. (school is 6 hours away but not easy to get to).</p>