<p>My 17 year old D is in her hotel lobby in NYC getting ready to come home from a school trip and Jesse Jackson is also chillin’ in the lobby. He’s probably lucky that he’s in the presence of a bunch of cute girls who don’t really know who he is. If I was there I’d be embarrassing all the girls, being a groupie. All politics aside, he’s one of the great orators of our time.</p>
<p>Missy… I have seen him speak twice… once as a minister and once in a general lecture format. Any guy who can get a bunch of middle-aged white republican’s to yell out “Amen” in the middle of a sermon definitely has the power of orating. </p>
<p>MIL and FIL took the boys out to dinner last night and I am so so jealous! It was one thing to meet one of his friends early in the fall semester during parent weekend, but quite another to get a view of them now, nearly a year in. I gave H camera and gave instructions to older D that she is to take a ton of pictures while she is there. Kind of wish now that I had gone, but after today I will use my time alone in a very productive way and it will feel good to have done it on my own schedule with no interruptions.</p>
<p>My son purchased the laundry service and loves it. The clothes come back folded and clean. He was just mentioning that it was really worth the money (700/year!). No problems with lost, damaged, shrinking, or color bleeding. He plans on having it all four years.</p>
<p>^^spam?</p>
<p>Just stopping by to tell you all again how grateful I am for this thread. There is an awful lot of nastiness on CC these days. I wonder what’s up - the stress of waiting for April 1st? cabin fever?</p>
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<p>Boy, you said it! I’ve got my '13 family, and it’s usually safe on the Dressing Young thread, too. Other than that, one posts at one’s own risk!</p>
<p>Yup. This week I’m sticking to this thread and Passover recipes. Just took the first batch of chocolate toffee matzah out of the oven - yum! (I should probably be spending time on the Diet/Wellness thread too :o)</p>
<p>Chocolate toffee matzah? My my, marshmallow Peeps really can’t compete with that!</p>
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<p>shhh… don’t tell anyone, but that’s really why I converted :D</p>
<p>PRJ^^too funny!!</p>
<p>PRJ - that, in itself, would be reason enough for me! </p>
<p>Missy… just wanted to say I am sorry for the experience your family has had this year. I know what a wrench in the original plan it has created, but it’s made even worse with all the run around you’ve gotten. It just sucks, to be clear.</p>
<p>Chocolate toffee matzah. OMG. Must go to that thread!!!</p>
<p>Too much togetherness, three days in to vacation. No longer the cool mom I was when she was two and a half hours away. College was wonderful last semester; now it’s not so good. Roommate tolerable last semester; now intolerable. My jokes were funny last semester; now met with eye-rolling. Vegetarian last three years; now eating meat.
Make me gingerbread? she asks. No, I’m sick of sweets (I didn’t make it – always good to follow the conversation to its conclusion before getting out the flour).
Too bad the grass is still dead. I could make her mow the lawn or something!</p>
<p>oregon thinking of you!</p>
<p>Downtoearth - How is your treatment going? How are you feeling?</p>
<p>Missy, my offer still stands if you’d like to take a wild bourbon-soaked road trip to a certain LAC. You can ride shotgun. Literally ;)</p>
<p>Someone on here is a therapist, right? Is it Oregon? If so, Oregon, it’s healthy to fantasize about such things, right ^^^??? So long as I don’t show up somewhere in Texas going “Yoohoo, Missypie” right?</p>
<p>Who are you really trying to convince, KMC? :)</p>
<p>I feel so badly for the kids and parents who are struggling this freshman year. It’s one thing for the kid to just blow off school, quite another when the school doesn’t deliver. Those LAC’s that show such promise apparently only deliver to students who don’t need the support we all expect the small schools to provide. Agree Moda, it sucks.</p>
<p>Missypie, is MPSon miserable at school? I so get having them follow through on their commitments, but it must feel like throwing him into the lion’s den.</p>
<p>S comes home for Easter break next week and I’m hoping absence has done the proverbial fonding-thing. Got a sweet text from him last week while on spring break saying he wished I was there - haven’t heard anything like that in YEARS.</p>
<p>Thinking of all of you who are struggling in one way or another, and feeling extremely grateful that my world is without pain…today.</p>
<p>Re earlier question about parasite - D is feeling fine, but one girl in her group was hospitalized for parasite treatment. Apparently several in the group went swimming in the Niger river, including D.</p>
<p>PRJ—recipes please?? just bought some Passover goodies (such a ripoff) as I’m hosting a “daughter’s home for Spring Break so it’s Passover early” Seder this week. </p>
<p>My sophomore s called earlier to tell me he was accepted into the London School of Economics study abroad year next year…will have to plan a trip as I could not go even one semester without visiting…</p>
<p>I agree, this thread has consistently been a source of support and acceptance…like a good friend. and it has been since it’s inception, remember when the analyst started it</p>
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<p>Invisible disabilities like Aspergers are so confusing, though. Even though I’m furious that the head of counseling said she could handle Fang Jr’s issues, and then turned out not to be able to, I’m also sympathetic. Aspie students often present as a lot more capable than they actually turn out to be. The mixture of strengths and deficits is unexpected. If you don’t know about Aspergers, you will assume that the articulate student in front of you will be able to manage tasks about as well as any other undergraduate-- but he can’t. He just can’t do things everyone else can do with no difficulty.</p>
<p>Still I sometimes get mad. When I visited Fang Jr at Halloween, this therapist said that he was “subclinical,” which apparently means someone has the diagnosis but not the symptoms. I came to find out later that he had been having exactly the problems that other Aspies have in college, which were also exactly the problems predicted in the long written professional diagnosis that I had given the therapist before school started. Exactly.</p>