<p>Gosh, my mistake, you’re unstuck! Sorry…
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<p>Thanks CollegeMom!! We are a little alternative here!!</p>
<p>And now, in a vigorous display of the totally off-topic nature of this thread, I would like to note that as of this moment, Alumother and I <em>BOTH</em> have 1,999 posts. How cool is that! By the time you read this, it’s likely one or both of us will have broken the magic spell, but it’s kind of cozy to feel all sisterly and tied and stuff… shucks. Can you feel the magic, Alu?</p>
<p>I can mostly feel my morning coffee and my sore knee right now… or maybe I’m just dreading the teenager party scheduled to happen in our backyard tonight. It’s hard to tell the difference, but both make the couch feel incredibly comfortable this morning.</p>
<p>(PS: Thanks, CollegeMom! 
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<p>Drinks for CollegeMom! She showed us the love!</p>
<p>I guess we kind of thrive on the underdog feeling. Plus, if we’re “stuck,” someone might come in and want to spruce us up. Buy sybbie a real hat (instead of chicken bucket), real shoes (instead of chip baskets), re-upholster the duct-taped tangerine naugahyde booths…</p>
<p>Hmmm… should we re-think this :p?</p>
<p>Thanks college mom for showing us the love however, the regulars do make a point</p>
<p>I don’t want any one messin with my chicken bucket. It has character and is getting better with age and my chip baskets are molded to the shape of my feet and are really quite comfortable.</p>
<p>If we were to post our CC archetype, then evertyone would want to come hang out her to see what all the buzz is about. With our luck, someone will want to come clean the place and we’ll never be able to find anything. Worse, you never know what we will find once we start turning over tables, we might find some of our sinners from days gone by (crash never did make it back from her trip with that towel boy 
).</p>
<p>…or the Yosemite Marmots who conservationists have lately described as “confused.” Their rhythms are off with the global warming “they say.” They are emerging from hibernation too early and then can’t find food “they say.” Has anyone told those folks about where they have been hanging out during the early spring? No, the place must stay as is…they don’t need anymore confusion in their disrupted lives.</p>
<p>Stuck, unstuck. Doesn’t really matter - we’ll find it and stagger in.</p>
<p>Moot! Mi compadre! Tu es ma copine! Or as they say in Chinese (poor pinyin here) Punyao! Perhaps this is the cycle synching that takes over when our mischievous hormones relent and give us a break!</p>
<p>BTW, vote wholly with unsticking. They wouldn’t stick Burning Man, would they:).</p>
<p>2nd BTW, has anyone here read Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange? Sort of like Dickens meets Harry Potter? If you have, you will know what I mean when I say that the Alley is the Faerieland of cc.</p>
<p>3rd BTW, where DID crash go? To the land of jamimom?</p>
<p>Sticking would be akin to turning the greasy barfly joint into a PD Chang’s. <em>shivers</em> Thanks for unsticking, CM.</p>
<p>As for Mr Smooth, on Friday, while we were at the office, (what were we thinking, leaving him at home alone?), the head of the history department called him and asked him if he could come by and interview him about the animated game Smooth is producing. (I’m his venture capitalist. Guess how that is going. His nightmare, LOL). </p>
<p>We were happy at work, none the wiser, when the head arrived with his VIDEO camera and taped a 30 minute interview in Smooth’s BEDROOM with Smooth wearing the clothes he had on from the night before. :eek: </p>
<p>That’s okay. It’s only going to be shown to a national conference of 2000 educators. Do you think the head took a pan shot to show how Americans raise their young? Pass me a Glenfiddich quad please.</p>
<p>WOW. This is what I’d like to know: </p>
<p>How many feet of dirty clothes were there piled on Smooth’s floor? How many congealed dishes were there stuck to his desk? How many half-naked girls are on the walls? (And how many posters for alcoholic beverages or $200K cars?) What would the loud musical selection be <em>during</em> the interview and would it have lyrics glorifying hos, guns, drugs or all of the above? And finally: how many AIM messages would be sent while said professor filmed away? </p>
<p>Because these would be my nightmares if my son were ever to be taped in his cave-- a place a thousand times less hospitable than Tora Bora.</p>
<p>His desk. Since Smooth is building this project with his cyber community in Croatia, Portugal, Japan, Asia and the US, we lent him an extra super fast computer with a great graphics card and an additional flat screen at which point he decided his desk was his c*ck pit (it does look as though he could take off right through the bay window). No food or drink has congealed on that surface since the flight controls were installed.</p>
<p>The rest of the room? Well, he’s on spring break and he has thirty smooth friends who visit him through the day. The down and dirty music is usually pounding (a sign he is awake). Is that a good visual? But seriously, we think the head asked him to turn the music down and he stood and said “Yes, Sir” as he is required to do at school. Right?</p>
<p>Barkeep!##@! The quad needs refilling!</p>
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There’s a bar near my law school with a poster to the effect of, “Incentives for Higher Education.” The picture is of several expensive cars parked in a carport near a beach house in the tropics.</p>
<p>What establishment is that? I’m going to be visiting your stomping grounds in a couple of weeks…</p>
<p>I haven’t had time to check in for the past few days. Remind me to tell you about dual cases of major separation anxiety for both SluggJr and SluggSr, ending in tears for SluggSr minutes before we walked out the door this morning. Talk about the perfect freakin’ storm. </p>
<p>I’m eating a salad and getting ready to haul the last load of crap. The bike survived the summer without being stolen or wrecked, so it’s especially satisfying to deliver that particular item. We left him in his dorm room this morning to unpack his…ahem…stuff and meet the suitemates while we drove back home to get the second load. He’s called us 3 times to add things to the list, including pics from his room. </p>
<p>SSr and I stopped off at the grocery store and picked up 2 bottles of wine and some hamburgers. </p>
<p>Like Dorothy and her rickety, stomped-on friends , we are limping to Oz, my sluggy friends. Oz is WONDERFUL, and I can see it from here. ;)</p>
<p>He’s at COLLEGE, slugg.<br>
He
is
at
college.</p>
<p>Whooooooooo!</p>
<p>Sluug, my girl,</p>
<p>Ya didn’t expect to see such a wave of emotions, did ya?</p>
<p>gushing all over. what a great week it has been here on the alley.</p>
<p>Hey, jym626’s S, heading like so many other S’s here this week for the Formerly Known as Slacker designation, kind of got lost in the flurry of excitement re her Dumber than Alabama post, the stuck-unstuck debate etcetera, etcetera.</p>
<p>So… he “gets it.” What is it with all of our boys “getting it” at the same time? Just when we had achieved Archetype Status.</p>
<p>So, tell us what it is about Pomona and Claremont-McKenna that roused this kid? We can stir up an appropriate drink and brainstorm his application essays for him. We will <em>make</em> this kid FIT those schools so tightly they’ll forget to look at his stats. And… we’ll send in the marmots. </p>
<p><em>cue music</em></p>
<p>Jmmom-
Thanks for pulling the"slackerboy-gets-it" posts out from the flurry of conversation in SA today. I too am curious as to what gear started turning in our boys’ heads.</p>
<p>To answer your questions, a combo of things make CMC and Pomona rise from the proverbial college search ashes. Most of the factors are pretty ridiculous, but far be it from me to open my trap and complain. He wants a school where he’ll know people and can say “hey” when he walks across campus (so the bigger schools/universities are fading from view in his interest level). He commented, however, that he wants a school that isn’t too small, so he can do something really stupid and not have the whole school know about it the next day (CMC and Pomona are pretty small-- his stupidity would probably spread like wildfire within a day, but I kept my mouth shut). He wants a warm climate, and wants an intellectual but laid back, fairly liberal atmosphere. Many of the southern schools around here were looking too preppy/conservative (“provincial”) for him, and he was just not finding a school that piqued his interest. So,what’s the draw??? The massive quantities of free chocolate at exam time, the “ski and surf on the same day” event in the spring (being about an hour from the beach and the ski slopes) and the intermural paintball teams were definite interest-grabbers for him from the Claremont colleges. He has found his people!!! </p>
<p>While he isn’t terribly religious, he doesn’t want to go to school where the number of other jewish kids can be counted on one hand with a few fingers left over. Also, he read about Pitzer and burst out laughing. It said something like… “we don’t just spend all our time smoking dope and bashing Bush… we also drink”. He also liked the fact that Scripps was right there too. An all-girls school next door was another plus. So, he had to find schools that are impossible to get into and cost upwards of 40K/yr??? Oh well, at least he is now, for the moment, a little more interested in college and a little less interested in video games and facebook (well, it seemed so for a few hours at least…) Any ideas for essay topics besides the “Things I can do that are remarkably stupid and won’t make the cover page of the school newspaper” topic? </p>
<p>Uh Oh… I just had an epiphany of my own… He has decided that we should go visit the Claremont schols over spring break. Spend a day or so on campus, and the rest of the time at the beach and on the slopes. I was so thrilled at his interest in college that I quickly agreed… Maybe the person who has done the really stupid thing is me… Send in the marmots…</p>
<p>Oh-- and alu and mootie-- congrats on the 1,999 tie. True karma. Waht’s the appropriate drink for this? A “karma-cazie” (sorry… <<<tail between=“” legs,=“” slinking=“” away=“” into=“” the=“” land=“” of=“” bad=“” puns=“”>>>>>)</tail></p>