<p>Gosh- Not having one “in the pipeline” this yr, I totally forgot about the Nov. 1 deadline! My heartfelt congrats to those of you who have completed this phase. take a huge collective sigh, and belly up to the bar. And have them put the new Benson-Jarreau CD on stereo system. It is great!</p>
<h1>2 IS GONE - with mere minutes to spare.</h1>
<p>One of my son’s teachers stayed home the last 2 days to write rec letters (and then has the gall to give a test tomorrow). I approve of her staying home on the off-chance she wrote his recommendation. She’s only had the forms for 2 months. I need a big giant drink and some of those stale peanuts.</p>
<p>over 30,
Forget the stale peanuts! We’ve got leftover Halloween candy! And some orange colored drinks…</p>
<p>audio–the lightbulb monologue made my day!</p>
<p>Sometimes my DH will remark on something that never gets dirty, or we never have had to clean or change or something and isn’t it remarkable…I want to smack him.</p>
<p>That’s because I CLEAN IT/CHANGE IT you zipperhead!</p>
<p>audio, I have to tell you, the protagonist in my NaNoWriMo novel this month is menopausal (“write what you know”, they often say), and I assure you SOMEONE is going to tell that joke within her hearing. I’m not sure yet if it will make her laugh or cause her to break something. :)</p>
<p>The second EA application went in with 42 minutes to spare and much grumbling about the stupid programming by the people who created the Common Ap. Can’t fit any descriptions into the boxes, AP course titles are too long to fit in the boxes, one essay vanished in the upload process luckily it wouldn’t upload because the essay had vanished…</p>
<p>Next deadline Dec. 15…</p>
<p>Son sent in his SCEA on Tuesday at about 8:00 pm after rewriting much of it at 7:30 pm. Nothing like waiting till the last minute. My favorite last minute question, “Do I go to a private school or parochial?”</p>
<p>So D is off to college this year and S is only in 9th grade…Since we have no application deadlines to stress about here, we thought we would replace some windows, doors and floors…do a little face lift on the house. I am currently stripping 20 year old wallpaper and wishing I were stressing about application deadlines instead! I see a big glass of wine waiting for me at the end of this afternoon :</p>
<p>What’s being served today?</p>
<p>I don’t know. But I’ve heard that it tastes like chicken</p>
<p>Did someone bring rattlesnacks in here?
(See this thread for explanantion)<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=253791[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=253791</a></p>
<p>The sign on the gate to the path around my office building says, “Beware rattlesnakes and cattle”, so I can understand the confusion. Oh wait you said chicken.</p>
<p>Never mind. :-> (said in my best Emily Litella voice)</p>
<p>
To go with sybbie’s chicken-flavored solid food…
For you, parent2noles, I am pouring. In honor of the lightbulb recently going on in my head re the derivation of your screenname.</p>
<p>Florida Gold
1 oz Gold Tequila
fill orange juice</p>
<p>Pour over rocks.</p>
<p>Excellent. Thank you, Jmmom! It sounds delicious. :)</p>
<p>Try this some time: </p>
<p>Pomegranate juice (the chilled kind in the round-style plastic bottles)
Vodka
squeeze slice of lemon into cup
serve over ice</p>
<p>Yum!</p>
<p>Be careful, though it’s so tasty you’ll be singing old songs in short order. ;)</p>
<p>OK - so what does my screename mean?</p>
<p>btw - alligator tastes like tough chicken…</p>
<p>Ostrich on the other hand… YUM!</p>
<p>Maybe … seminoles?</p>
<p>My we’ve got quite a party going in here today! </p>
<p>Seems like a good time to fire up the hot tub, so all you tense-necked parents of '11ers can grab your drinks and slip into the scalding water. We have IVs too if necessary-- but try to pace yourselves; it’s a long year. </p>
<p>You will need the Alley again about Dec 15 (ED/EA decisions) Dec 31 (more deadlines) Feb (ED2) and OH april.</p>
<p>But don’t worry, soon you’ll be buying us champagne…</p>
<p>Sure, but what does the entire name mean? </p>
<p>I am glad we’re past all that. The grad and professional schools are on them.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Well, I figure you’ve sired two of them thar 'noles. And that you probably wouldn’t have wanted me to pour you a Hurricane? Or any Gator-ade?</p>
<p>You win the prize, jmmom. :)</p>
<p>Yep, two daughters at FSU. My turn to pour for you - and sbmom. My wife and I are alumni as well.</p>
<p>It really has a double meaning - I try and help out on the FSU board as well.</p>
<p>Question is: will I be able to talk my '11 kiddo into actually going to university? He just got a venture capital check from his high school.</p>
<p>Hey…where is Alum? We have to keep tabs on a girl in the middle of so many mid-life musings.</p>