<p>D texted at 1:30 (her time) last evening … Guess it’s down to the wire for all. Best wishes to all our kids finishing papers, projects, and studying for exams. I know mine is tired.</p>
<p>S has his final final today but is staying in Montreal for another week before coming home for his grunt work job. D is still in classes until next Friday. Actually, most classes are closed that day for what has been described as a particularly wild day of music, dancing, and inebriation at the end of term. Yikes!</p>
<p>Oh yesss! Best wishes and moral support to all the kids finishing up today. Mine aren’t done until the 19th of May.</p>
<p>Odessagirl coming home for the weekend. I am taking our largest wheeled suitcase for her to fill up with items she won’t need for the last week of school. Trying to make moving her out a tiny bit easier. Her last class is on Monday and then finals.</p>
<p>Son’s last day of class is today, then he has finals on Thursday and Friday, then sings at gradutation, then home.</p>
<p>I haven’t asked, but I don’t think he’s finished the leave of absence/transfer credit paperwork, so that will give him something to do before finals.</p>
<p>And go some more Missyson (just in case he’s STILL wrapping it up.) I send along the McLastMinute mojo, because darned if it doesn’t work sometimes!</p>
<p>Ah, y’all know my son well. Just texted back and forth…still has to write the conslusion, it’s due at 2 pm and he has an 11 am class. I told him to look over the rubric one more time before he turns it in…he’s notorious for writing great papers, then leaving off the title page, or not alphabetizing the bibliography or doing some other ridiculous thing that costs him points.</p>
<p>Good luck to all the kids taking finals and writing papers!</p>
<p>Does anyone watch Community? Last night Abed had this list of everything he still needed to do to make sure he had the quintessential first year college experience (nothwithstanding the fact that he’s in community college)…he was in a toga and smashed a guitar a la Animal House, pantsed someone and got pantesed and the episode ended in a food fight.</p>
<p>I wonder how many of our kids feel like they’ve had the quintessental freshman year.</p>
<p>Well no food fight that I have heard of but D has come pretty close I think. One all nighter, epic snowball fight, football games, toga party, sorority pledging, dorm drama, frat parties, road trip, crazy stuff with her teammates, falling “in love”, yeah pretty eventful.</p>
<p>Son called and says “What temperature should I set the iron on to iron my clothes for my orals tomorrow?” (I am pleasantly surprised by both ironing and recognition that he might “dress up”) Then he adds that sister is there to help him. I hear her in the background saying “It says right here on the iron “Cotton”” Oh, okay, he says, got to go.(nice that she at last can read the appliance…grin). Remaining decision was “use steam?” BUT…What a flood of feelings 1) Orals are tomorrow! (sigh, sign of independence/maturity/etc that this is a big event but unknown to us if no domestic information is required) 2) Sister is competent to iron, asked and willing to iron BUT…have I failed as a feminist re both of them(he should iron independently?) or succeeded in having kids who have an affectionate supportive life together in college. Mostly, I realize, OMG he truly is graduating and we are off into another stage. Now we wait to see if he will call with news after the big event. (Seniors do a thesis and a full oral defense; very valuable learning experience all around) And the sister/first year got the housing draw she wanted to that is a big relief. Where did this year go? Where did his college time ago? Seems only yesterday I discovered this forum and now I am a serious veteran…</p>
<p>Mmaah, you should be pleased with that call…I fear the call I would have received would have been “what is my shirt size because I need to buy a new shirt for orals.”</p>
<p>My H would wear it right out the closet and it is only my insistence to iron something because I have to be seen with him that it gets done. He truly doesn’t care for most things and others, it’s been to the dry cleaners. Same with son. I used to hang his Tshirts (mostly because it’s easier than folding) but at college he has said that the wrinkles seem to fall out by lunch, so no big deal. This is a kid for whom I cut out tags from his shirts and only bought seamless socks for the first five years of his life. To this day, he won’t wear a rugby like shirt that has multiple seams unless it’s with a t-shirt underneath but a wrinkled shirt? The boy doesn’t even have an iron at school.</p>
<p>Basically… the conclusion is your son CAN iron, but why would he when he doesn’t have to? I feel the same way about changing a tire. I CAN change a tire, but why would I when I can call AAA to do it for me?</p>
<p>M: I actually agree: If someone more competent is available and willing to help, why not? He probably would figure it out if he was on his own. And I am impressed he had an iron and am betting it is available because there are 2 girls in the apartment as well…and it may be a “legacy” as the apartment seems to get handed from generation to generation of students with all kinds of random items in place. Wish I could be a fly on the wall for the defense…</p>
<p>When I’m feeling wistful about all I don’t know anymore I recall that I left my parents completely clueless as well so this is just karmic justice…And their time will come as well…</p>
<p>Just had to look - all kinds of Gunne Sax wedding dresses on eBay…poor us - coming of age at the time of the “Prairie Revival.”</p>
<p>All these descriptions – prairie, peasant, and hippie! I never thought of my dress as any one of those! (I could sell it for more than I paid for it, it seems.)</p>
<p>Any male dress shirt in our house that has been worn goes to the cleaners to be ironed and lightly starched, so ironing skills for the boys are limited (although they have been taught). H is an absolute stickler on dress clothes, so both boys have been thoroughly instructed on details like when to wear suit pants with cuffs versus no cuffs; wing tips versus tassels; cordovan versus black belt and shoes; choosing the tie; using a dress watch, etc. They may look like slobs 95% of the time, but they do clean up nicely. I on the other hand have no clothes sense at all. I had to Google Quiana.</p>
<p>S2 is arguing over credit for something where they don’t have his name on the sign-up sheet as having attended and he swears he signed the paper. He tends to get temperamental when he has these types disagreements, which doesn’t help anything. On the other hand, he is feeling generally positive. He needs an 87 on the calculus final to get an A in the class and he believes that is doable.</p>
<p>I was tired of paying for poorly ironed shirts so now H does his own. We had gone to one cleaners for years and then they changed ownership. End of quality service. Glad to know I wasn’t the only one who had to google Qiana - sounded familiar but I needed to check. </p>
<p>D reports positive results from her end of semester, which is good. First semester was a bit rough but looks like we’re on the upward trend, always good. Relationship front has resolved, thankfully and in another two weeks he’ll be gone for good. It just seems to me that relationships have changed so much since I was in college. Or maybe not relationships but the way the kids approach each other.</p>
<p>I wore a Gunne Sax, too! Also had to Google Quiana and ended up spending time looking at these beautiful vintage dresses. We all looked so nice and sassy in those clothes.
My D just told me that my emails are bad because I don’t write in full sentances and don’t always capitalize. Uh, what? She said it is a generational thing and that they always say, Hi So and So, etc. She said that the tone sounds harsh when I write. OK, well now…sputter. I have had to work so hard to learn to be informal that I cannot believe that I am being told this. After all, wearing matching shoes and carrying purses that match and setting your hair in large rollers overnight will leave it’s mark. But emails?
Missypie, any news? I hope it all went well for your S.
My S will be home tomorrow to talk with the now former GF. It is going to be awful for him. She gave him a slim gold wedding band for Christmas and he has been wearing it.
I so hope he does not deviate from his current intentions. One does have to wonder, though, what he was thinking by breaking up with her one week before the Prom.</p>
<p>Son’s 11 o’clock was cancelled, giving him a bit more time. Jeez, why am I so involved, yet with no way to help.</p>
<p>Amazlingly, with kids ages 19, 17 and 14, we have not been through any real breakups. Son dated one girl very briefly before the current GF…if I recall, she broke up with him and BOY was he glad!</p>