<p>D called last night to update us on the progress of her RA application journey. It turns out that 7 dorms have asked her to interview for their openings over the next week. Turns out that she got the most requests for interviews. Her big concern? She doesn’t have 7 different outfits to wear to the interviews. I calmly reminded her that none of the people conducting the interviews would be seeing her more than once, since each dorm hires it’s own RAs. She could actually wear the same outfit. I wish we had been on Skype, her stunned expression would have been priceless.</p>
<p>Blackeyedsusan – I hope your mom is okay. “those also serve who stand and wait” – though waiting is so very hard.</p>
<p>Emgamac – too funny about the outfits. Now if only she had that fine advice from the sorority woman at Cornell (was it the Pi Phi’s?) that delineated the proper clothing and accessories for every day!</p>
<p>Lindz my D16 is the same way “my body” I said to H that I see she is changing and thinking. That is good . I have raised them to have their own opinions. But my kids know how i feel about his and it has an impact because I am also pretty easy going.
I had to get a huge dock spider out of our lake cottage everyone else was freaking. Moda did you think of the “Birds” maybe they were taunting the cat.
Looks like my D1 will be home for the summer, internship but no job.</p>
<p>An '09 grad who is at KU has been trying all year to convince my '11 D to go to KU…loved it, it’s fabulous. Now he’s sent her a facebook message that he’s transferring to another school because KU is “too liberal.” Wonder what happened?</p>
<p>hmm… dunno Missy, but a good friend of my D16’s whose been the captain of two teams is off to KU next year and it was her #1 choice. My cousin is also there and loves it. So… I think “too liberal” probably needs a little more explanation, especially in this day and age of “tea parties.” I don’t even know what I am these days! ;)</p>
<p>emg, congrats on your D being in such high demand. She sounds like she will be a great assets for one lucky dorm. I like the comment on the outfits. I obsess a little over what to wear. </p>
<p>My neice (the senior in high school) is taking me riding today and afterwards we are having dinner with my brother’s family, along with my mother and aunt (89th birthday). I’m tryinig to figure out an outfit casual enough for a long trail ride yet dressy enough for a birthday dinner. I’m thinking a nice top with my jeans, covered by a t-shirt for the ride and throw some heels in the car. My brother’s family will all be in jeans, while my mother, aunt, and H will all be in much dressier attire (H coming straight from work). I prefer to dress up for these types of things (makes it feel more like a party), but my sister in law probably wants me dressed down so she doesn’t feel out of place. My brother specifically told me to wear jeans.</p>
<p>I sent both D and S off to college with a multi-page “letter from Mom.” It started with “Mom’s Cardinal Rules for College,” which included (1) Never, ever get in a car driven by someone who has been drinking, and (2) Never, ever cheat or plagiarize. There were also a couple more “rules,” but it never occurred to me I perhaps should have included a “never, ever” about the cyber world. I’m positive D (graduating in 4 weeks) has her head on straight, but I still worry about S. Guys this age can just be so stupid at times. </p>
<p>Although neither D or S has “friended” me on FB (and I haven’t asked), I can find S through a search. A few weeks ago his profile picture was pretty bad – no nudity, and it wasn’t even a photo of him, but, to quote D, it was a little “sketchy.” I sent him an email telling him to get rid of that photo immediately. He responded that a friend had hacked into his FB account and changed the photo. (I guess that’s the problem with an engineering school – way too may tech-savvy kids.) I’m sure S thought it was all a joke and I was over-reacting, but he did get rid of the photo. I can only hope that S’s intense desire to do well in the AF ROTC program so he can be a pilot will help keep him on the straight and narrow.</p>
<p>Found out yesterday that my niece has decided to attend the same school as S. She’s been a stand-out in HS and got a fair amount of merit money from WPI. She may find the work to be a lot more demanding than at her HS, but my main concern is how much she’ll fall into the party scene. At least with the 7 week terms at WPI, it doesn’t take long for students (& their parents) to find out how they’re doing.</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe some humanities professor at KU made some outrageous statements in class. Or maybe the kid is taking a comparative religion class where Christianity doesn’t come out on top. Or maybe he’s trying out stories for why he’s coming home (just like I am with Son! ;))</p>
<p>Analyst - I assume this is a horse ride you’re talking about? I would pack a completely new outfit! My clothes always were so smelly after a ride. I think dressing up jeans would be fine - in compliance with niece’s wishes and the elderly ladies.</p>
<p>woody, it is indeed a horse. I guess I will put a full change of clothes in the car. The weather today is hot and dry, so no worry about mud but I assume we will have to brush both horses down after the ride, so I’m likely to be covered with horse hair and sweat. I haven’t ridden in a couple of years and am looking forward to it. My neice’s horse is a major handful, but the one she has me on is generally well behaved. However, my brother took a bad spill on him recently when a wild turkey flew up right in the horse’s face as they were crossing a meadow. I’m not as pliable as I used to be so am hoping not to end up on the ground.</p>
<p>Good Luck TheAnalyst! Yikes! Horses make me a little nervous!</p>
<p>missypie…KU is popular around here! I have only heard great reviews. D1 dated a young man who goes there and he loved it so much he never came home in the summers! That was the end of their relationship! One of the girls from D2’s present school is transferring there for next year. One of my old grad school profs teaches there and she is very happy there.</p>
<p>KU is popular around here, too, esp. among those at the HS of D’s friend. I wonder if he’ll end up at Baylor. I don’t know what would have to happen before *we *considered a school “too liberal” - maybe smoking weed in class (although I would brand that as “too stupid”, rather than “too liberal”.) I can, however, respect his decision if the atmosphere truly made him uncomfortable, as I would guess that Oral Roberts or Liberty U would be for my kids.</p>
<p>D1’s laptop has died. I had been waiting in line for 5 minutes, tech guy comes on, we tried some things for 5 minutes and now they are sending a new hard drive and an in home technician. I am so glad I bought the 4 yr warranty!</p>
<p>NM- I can relate. My laptop ( a “cheap” one according to S) is having trouble and H’s desktop is on it’s last legs. At this point any post could be my last for awhile.</p>
<p>D1 wants to know if we will pay to save the pics on the hard drive. I’m thinking we won’t. Trying to get her to learn she has to backup things. I always back mine up online and put them on a CD when I get prints. I print a lot since I scrapbook. I know…mean mom moment!</p>
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McSon learned all about cybermagic haunting several years ago when I showed him the things that came up when I googled his email address - (they forget that each system relies on email for notification, and that everyone knows their email if not their screen name). Literally pages of posts came up – mostly poems, flames, silliness, but also some strongly worded political opinions he might not like the world to see (since they change so frequently ;). So he began his new email identity that day, and ever since we do a few periodic searches to ensure there’s no cybertrail, so to speak. Now he’s marginally more cryptic in his posts (if still prolific).</p>
<p>And though I’m a few pages late/slow to comment, I’ve always been bemused by sexting. Apart from the clear objectification of it all (and the willingness to be objectified) the question of taste seems at times to have been bred out of this next generation. I suppose that sounds old school, but the gypsies at the circus always taught me that what what hidden was often more of a lure than what was exposed ;)</p>
<p>I have one more confession. I still have not seen the Wizard of Oz. I was only allowed 1 hr of television a day as a child, and I just never caught up!
One time, a date pulled off his shoe and held it up to his ear during a romantic dinner. I had no freakin clue what he was doing (and still have not seen Maxwell Smart to this day!)</p>
<p>I am laughing at a romantic dinner where a date pulls off his shoe to be Maxwell Smart! I am just wondering how romantic that could be, KM! Wine, roses, singing waiters-that’s more my idea of a romantic dinner…but Maxwell Smart???</p>
<p>It always amazes me how much information is available online. I periodically google myself --usually pretty innoculous items. The things I don’t like are the “search aggregators” that pull from public records- here’s where I live, I’m married, here’s who lives in my household, here’s what my house is worth- one even had an aerial photo on their site. Don’t care for it. At all.</p>
<p>Okay, I just had to google our various email addresses. Thje only thing marginally interesting I found out is that the Sultan of Brunei owns a car with a VIN that is substantially similar to our email address.</p>
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OMG!!! Good thing it’s way past morning when I’d be sitting at the computer with a cup of coffee, or it would be all over the screen, keyboard, desk, etc. Too funny!</p>
<p>I did the same thing! No vin numbers, and not really identifying either. Only proves we lead boring lives.</p>