<p>I’m thrilled - D was just notified that her essay won first place in the freshman comp writing contest for a course that nearly 5,000 students were enrolled in this semester. A little bit of money, and an invitation to the English department graduation awards ceremony. I’m looking forward to reading it! Monday she learned that she got the summer internship with the local nonprofit international aid group she’d applied to. Nice lead-in to finals week. (Though she only has two true finals – everything else is papers it seems.)</p>
<p>arabrab, congrats to your D! That’s fantastic!</p>
<p>arabrab, that is wonderful news. Congrats to your D on both fronts. I’m always impressed with people who can write. That skills translates into everything.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s terrific!</p>
<p>Great News Ararab! She must be riding high!!</p>
<p>By the way, Happy Anniversary to everybody!! A year ago today TheAnalyst started this thread! And it appears that we all still like each other!!</p>
<p>Am I the only one who notices this kind of stuff?</p>
<p>I noticed last week, Woody, when the '10s were wondering if it was time to start their new thread.</p>
<p>Ooops…guess I missed that one…</p>
<p>Congrats, ararab! You must be thrilled! </p>
<p>woody, no you’re not the only one who notices. I think it’s cool that we’re still together. I occasionally see posters on other threads who mention having a college first-year, but they are not names I recognize from this thread. I wonder if they lurk, or if they just think there’s nothing to talk about after S or D goes off to college, or or if they don’t like us :(</p>
<p>I admit to being very nervous about having a thread title with my name on it. What was I thinking? It increases the chance that one of my kids will browse the site and notice it one day. In which case I would probably get blasted from here to eternity and back. They picked my screen name so do know it but am pretty sure they don’t think I ever post. I wonder if the mods could just change it to having been started by RandomParent.</p>
<p>Analyst, you and I are in the same boat. D frequently comments privately on my posts. I would like to tell her that this thread is facebook for grownups. I think she is suprised that I still post- and in fact probably post more than I did when we were in college search mode.</p>
<p>Congrats, ararab! How nice that your D continues to achieve and add to her list of awards.</p>
<p>I very rarely open other threads here these days. There are several posters who inevitably jump into an otherwise civilized discussion and hijack it for their own agenda. </p>
<p>Happy Anniversary, friends. Doesn’t this call for champagne?</p>
<p>: passes champagne flutes (or Irish Car Bombs, depending on one’s mood and pallet…) to one and all.
Cheers ;)</p>
<p>I think I’ll stick with the champagne but what the heck is an Irish Car Bomb? Or do I not want to know? :)</p>
<p>A shot glass of Baileys, topped with Jameson Irish whiskey, dropped into the center of a pint of Guinness.
Serious shenanigans!</p>
<p>My goodness! I’ll say. I had definitely better stick with the champagne only.</p>
<p>I’ve been on that London/Paris/Barcelona trip thread and thus, I want my own pitcher of cava sangria.</p>
<p>When people were posting recipes the other day, somebody mentioned cooking chicken in white wine. I was planning chicken for dinner that night, so naturally decided to open a bottle of white to try that recipe. One-half cup in frying pan and the rest of the bottle pretty much found its way into a glass. H saw the almost empty wine bottle on the counter when he got home from work and I told him the recipe called for almost an entire bottle. He just couldn’t tell because the alcohol burned out in the cooking. Does anybody have a recipe calling for a touch of rum perhaps?</p>
<p>LOL, Analyst. Speaking of Irish Car Bombs, I was recruiting at a university a couple of years ago with one of our recent grads, and I make it a point to get out for a drink with them. He talked me into an Irish Car Bomb, and believe it or not, it tasted good enough for a second. Needless to say, he continued his shenanigans without the old broad!</p>
<p>Haha, funny you should ask! I have a multitude of recipes with rum. H loved to sail in his youth and sailors like their rum. </p>
<p>Grilled pineapple with rum glaze. “Easy” rum cake. Both are favorites. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t suggest using the entire bottle of rum, however!</p>
<p>Cpeltz – that is a dangerous second, isn’t it? I have a crew of business associates fond of occasional car-bombing and I suspect they amuse themselves reeling in uninitiated guests.</p>