<p>For jaylynn - “Senior Superlatives” that my D might actually be able to win:
longest hair
best single eyebrow raiser w/o changing expression
best slider (the pitch, not the appetizer)
abs of steel
most sardonic
miss technicality
best backbend about 1 min. in [Interlake</a> High School Marching Band Halftime Show Homecoming 10-14-2011 HD - YouTube](<a href=“Interlake High School Marching Band Halftime Show Homecoming 10-14-2011 HD - YouTube”>Interlake High School Marching Band Halftime Show Homecoming 10-14-2011 HD - YouTube)
sharpest elbows
most enigmatic</p>
<p>So according to DS, the award you are all talking about is “biggest flirt” in his yearbook.</p>
<p>Found out why there were helicopters circling. School was on lockdown due to a police car chase happening nearby. Normally kids can’t leave the classroom, but the AP show must go on according to the national schedule so he risked his life to get to the lecture hall to take his AP test. Too bad there is no more reason to update his college apps on how seriously he takes his education.</p>
<p>so sunny Friday afternoon, absweetmarie! It appears that we might now be having our long anticipated virtual cocktail party that never quite got off the ground. At least we are, said just to stir up MizzBee a bit, having a little pre-function. I was telling my friend and dog walking buddy about our party plans and it took her quite awhile to wrap her head around the idea that I was contemplating an online cocktail party with people who I’d never met.</p>
<p>OK MissBee - speaking off things pertaining to threads that cannot be named (the pre-function concept) . . . DS, in the car on the way to crew, was speaking some pretty strong words about the lameness of moms who email coaches and saying that they don’t want their son’s head to be shaved. “Last year coach was talking about maybe we would just do t-shirts or something and not shave novice’s heads. It’s a tradition! That’s the whole point of traditions . . . just because some mom calls up and says “ooh, we have a wedding to go to . . .” (hear mocking tone) you can’t just not do it!”</p>
<p>For those not in the loop, today is the day that the varsity guys shave the novice boys bald a cue balls in anticipation of regionals which will be their last races as novices. There is an opt out clause (usually mom initiated around family photos, weddings etc.) Some look pretty good with next to no hair like DS and some end up looking like prison inmates (our carpool partner for example). </p>
<p>cheers!</p>
<p>I am beginning to wonder what you all are like when you ARE drunk or high!</p>
<p>PAAARTEEEEEEEE</p>
<p>I am drinking water now. I went in to get some chips and salsa and a second glass of wine (the waiter never came) and realized to my dismay when looking at the level that I already had a second glass of wine! I see how this could get out of hand and I have to stay sober to drive carpool later.</p>
<p>Hey, on a more serious note, MIMK- HELP! I just am feeling just so durn wackaloonish… </p>
<p>Just spoke to D (laid-back minimalist who drives me BONKERS) back at BS about the Housing Form which she has already sent in and cannot be revised. She said there was no place available for her to write about her dust and dust-mite allergy. (See how how this is for me- I just canNOT be a helicopter mom) Ummm, I sort of do not believe her- was she expecting the form to ask “Do you have dust or dust mire allergies?” I have a feeling there WAS there a space to fill in “additional information”…</p>
<p>She said she requested a super-neat room-mate and said she was super-neat, so that is good.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am getting her MD to fill out the Health Forms next week. I wonder whom at Yale we should contact about this allergy to improve the odds of her getting a single or a separate sleeping room?
What should I do now, do you think? Your blades whirl about so well, I thought you might have a good suggestion, plus your D went to Yale. Are there many singles for Frosh, anyway??
PM me of your prefer- thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Back to the PARTY…</p>
<p>I love very much that idea of a Most Sardonic award. </p>
<p>I had this thing at a fancy pants tacqueria made of Clamato juice, beer, lime and spices. Like a Bloody Mary but with beer. Really much better than it sounds. Really. And my Wisconsin-loving self is a beer girl. So I’m going to make one so there.</p>
<p>Okay, home from work. Saintfan, which item on p. 67? I think you need a paid subscription to read, though.</p>
<p>mimk6, when older D took her AP Spanish test, it was a comedy of errors, except not too funny. The test involves listening, and they scheduled it in a room next door to a room where there was a loud party going on in there, which made it hard to hear. Next, a fire alarm went off, and everyone had to leave the building - including the AP test takers. After they returned to the building, they had a lockdown, because a mentally disturbed man was running around the school grounds naked screaming and making threats. They kept making announcements inside the school to give updates during the lockdown, which also made the listening part difficult to hear.</p>
<p>Only 4 students were taking the test. One classmate was on the school diving team, and the bus for state meet was leaving in the afternoon. Had the AP test taken the expected amount of time there would have been no problem, but with the various delays, she had to leave before the test was done, so she had to cancel her score and leave. Another test-taker was so unnerved by all the interruptions she also had her score cancelled and left. D and one other student were the only ones who finished the test. She was told that Collegeboard would be notified of the irregularities. We never heard anything, so we called Collegeboard and asked about our options. They said we could cancel her score if we wanted to. Of course there’s no refund, and she can’t re-take the test. We didn’t cancel her score - I think she ended up with a 3.</p>
<p>My award: Most Likely to Miss Her El Stop After Two Margaritas</p>
<p>If D could have, no doubt she would have nominated herself as “Senior with most annoying mother”…
Yours truly in wackalunacy</p>
<p>I feel like I’ve missed all the fun today…was out of town for work and just reading on my phone. I guess I’m in time for the virtual cocktail party, though.</p>
<p>A new vice for the social media age: drunk linking in.</p>
<p>I had to stop breastfeeding my son at 3 months because I got pneumonia and had to take strongs drugs that would pass through. I was not ready nor was he, but in the end I could not keep milk going for 2 weeks, still upsets me to think about gah -</p>
<p>Good one, College-Query, and now I will throw in another testing story brought to you by the School Where There is Never a Dull Moment, otherwise known as DS’s high school. </p>
<p>In CA there is a high school exit exam. You can’t graduate without passing it. Because some kids really do struggle with this (which is a topic for another thread) the test is a big deal for the administration. So when DS took it, it was in the gym. Apparently someone noticed early that morning or the night before that there was a bee problem. Ever on the ball, that person decided to spray in complete violation of about a million environmental regulations which require parental notification in a timely manner before pesticides are used, etc. Long story short, as the kids are testing the bees start dying and falling in droves onto the students and on their papers. Plop, plop, plop. DS, never one to let a little adversity stand in the way of ultimately getting out of this “paradise” and onto higher education, gamely brushes the bees off his test. He manages not to get stung but a girl near him does get stung and, naturally, is allergic to bee stings and must leave the test for medical attention. And so it goes…</p>
<p>Performersmom, I will PM you as well but I want to make sure you see this as it is time-sensitive so I’m putting it here as well. Yes, there were lots of places to say lots of things including one place, I believe to state if there was a disability. I don’t know if your daughter’s issues come under that, but I did find this. I would call on Monday (you should make this call in my opinion) and explain she is at BS and turned in housing without you knowing and this is all recent information anyway and you’ll have to move your doctor’s office to get that information in on Monday which is the deadline. Since your daughter did not check off disability, I would explain to them that while it may not qualify as such, it will be an issue if her roommate isn’t fastidious and it may be easier for all if she has a single. Let me know how they respond. Make sure they know she did not request any special accommodation so they look out for her application. THE DEADLINE IS MONDAY, MAY 14. You’ll have to find the phone number on the website.</p>
<p>"A student who requests special consideration in rooming for a disability or medical condition must state the circumstances in a letter addressed to the Resource Office on Disability and must send appropriate medical documentation, signed by a treating physician and on letterhead stationery. The student’s letter and the medical documentation may be sent separately, but both must be received by Monday, May 14, 2012. Send this information to:
Director, Resource Office on Disability
Yale University
P.O. Box 208305
New Haven, CT 06520-8305
Fax: 203-432-8250</p>
<p>A timely response is especially important because once a rooming assignment has been made it will not be possible to change it."</p>
<p>Going to bed early. Soooooo tired. So catching up on my phone. Will go back and read all of the witty edit comments tomorrow. Night all.</p>
<p>I mentioned a while back that my company had been acquired and that my end of the business is for sale. People are naturally starting to leave for greener pastures and I’m inheriting some of their applications to support. Today I was trying to reverse engineer some code from one former co-worker to try to stay one day ahead of the user who didn’t get adequate turnover from her former co-worker, fixing another former co-worker’s application that was broken by an infrastructure group’s unannounced overnight drive re-mapping, and making a small modification to “my” application in response to an audit finding. When multitasking like this, we often make an analogy to juggling, but after nearly ten pages of little more than boobs, butts, cramps, and sluts, there’s no way I’m going to complain about having had three balls in the air all day long. :)</p>
<p>On the other hand, I was prompted to listen to RHCP’s “Police Helicopter” and Cream’s (featuring Eric ‘God’ Clapton) “White Room,” so the day’s not a total loss. :)</p>
<p>Hang in there, mspearl.</p>
<p>Virtual cocktail Party = Never having to drink alone
Priceless.</p>
<p>oh no. wackaloon nation has gone bonkers.</p>
<p>You are amazing mimk- I just love helicopter moms so much! I obviously need one, too!! Thank you Thank you Thank you…</p>