<p>Wonderful, jym626 and momof3sons! Congratulations to the boys and their families!</p>
<p>Wow! More great kids! Congrats to all these DS’s!</p>
<p>I’m making grilled cheese sandwiches now but have been thinking of that Dark Shadows thing all morning. I am going to see if I can get a dvd from the LIbrary. That should just about flip my kids out! First off, it’s old. Second, it’s weird. I love messing with their minds.</p>
<p>OK, I looked it up - Dark Shadows was available on dvd and I borrowed it from the Lib. It’ll be in on Monday. </p>
<p>Now, I have to find some garlic, put all our crucifixes (sp?) around my neck, get a wooden stake… all before I can turn on the tv.</p>
<p>Mirrors! Isn’t there something with mirrors and vampires too?</p>
<p>Wasn’t Christopher Lee in a bunch of vampire movies?</p>
<p>That sonds like great fun! I don’t think you can see vampires’ reflections in mirrors (maybe not in other reflective surfaces too?)</p>
<p>Thanks mafool and fencersmom. And CONGRATS momof3sons! Thats WONDERFUL! My s got to eat Beef Wellington last night. That was a treat for him. There is a second ceremony for thei award where he gets his check. No meal at that ceremony, but he wont care!! </p>
<p>Fencersmother-- report back after you watch the Dark Shadows video!</p>
<p>jym626, that’s great! My kids got a choice of salmon (:eek:) or baked manicotti, and also had asparagus put on their plates, which they dutifully pushed around. 
I guess the dinner they went to was a bit “lower budget.” LOL</p>
<p>It is a new generation of boys in Sinners Alley!</p>
<p>Award winning Community Service boys. Congrats to all.</p>
<p>RIP the slackerboys of previous years. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Congrats to the great boys.</p>
<p>I had a lot of friends who watched Dark Shadows, but I was never into it. Quite a few clips on youtube if you need a fix now!</p>
<p>uh oh – I sense a rise in slacker girls as those boys start their ascent. Would that my slacker D watched something as fine as Dark Shadows. It’s all top models here. Shoot me.</p>
<p>Do you think those top model gals actually wear “normal sized” clothing (above a 00)? Do they menstruate? My D was watching one of those shows the other day and I think those ladies were so thin,it was truly abnormal. </p>
<p>I’ll check back in after I scare myself to death with Barnabas and friends (if there’s a big purple dinosaur, I am so outta there).</p>
<p>“embarrassed confession: Dark Shadows scared me. 
”</p>
<p>Me too! </p>
<p>I was part of the General Hospital generation, although I also remember Ryan’s Hope when I was even younger.</p>
<p>I still have the slacker son. His grounding ends COB Sunday. Interesting what you find on a computer when you look around…</p>
<p>Type A college soph D did just win $1000 in an art competition at her school.</p>
<p>momof3sons-
Dinner last night also included asparagus. Maybe there was a deal on it somewhere! There was both beef wellington and a crabcake with the asparaguse and potato. This was part of a big fundraising event for the local NBC TV affiliate as part of their annual community service awards (TV cameras, red carpet at the entrance of the hotel, lah dee dah…) People who actually “paid” for their seat at the event paid $300 a plate (!), and they closed the open bar after a half hour (I never got a drink, and if I’d paid $300 I’d have been peeved!!! )They had a raffle-- 2 day all expense paid trip to Vegas, a signed Elton John CD and DVD and a private session with him!! It went for $11,000 !! Seeing as how I actually ran into Sir Elton in a shopping center parking lot here several years ago, I decided I <em>really</em> didn’t need to bid on such a thing (though the parents of one of the other kids and I actually thought about splitting the bid and the trip when the bid was at $5000.) $2500 each seemed <em>reasonable</em> for about a millisecond, but we chickened out!</p>
<p>Oh, and as proud as we are of slacker son, he hasn’t totaly given up his slacker title yet. He said that because he won $1100, he now doesn’t have to work at all this summer. And, when we visited the honors program last week at the college he will likely be attending, his frequent question had to do with the risk of losing his scholarship if he is partying at a frat off campus and they have to call the EMS. :eek: Sure makes a mother proud… :o</p>
<p>Wow - congratulations to both jym626 and to momofthreesons. Your boys must all be amazing! I’m hoping that this means there is hope for my 11-year old S. He is a bit of a slacker - a new development this year. </p>
<p>m&sdad - I remember Ryan’s Hope from when I was in elementary school! GH was also popular when I lived in the dorms (as were all the ABC soaps).</p>
<p>jym626 - I’m not familiar with the other show you mentioned. Our dorm favorites were Letterman, re-runs of Soap, and basketball and football games. Freshman year, our RA wrote a letter to Letterman about how worried he was about the kids on our floor because we stayed up late watching his show and then started our work - and Letterman read it on the air over the winter break! It would have been much better if he had read it when we were all together - but it was still pretty cool.</p>
<p>“the Prisoner” was a British secret Service Agent- Kinda reminded me of “the Fugitive”. <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner</a> <a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/plotsummary[/url]”>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/plotsummary</a> Cool show.</p>
<p>LOL!
DS and 2 others are trying to find and finalize housing for their summer internships half a country away. They are not going about it as I would, but one of the students’ mothers is already involving herself, so I am sitting back and watching. I remember my UG housing and know that they will be able to handle a wide range of circumstances. But it is entertaining to observe these smart kids try coordinate their efforts, satisfy parental units, and somehow divine through internet listings just what they are getting themselves into.</p>
<p>A Bloody Mary, barkeep, but let’s call it the “Biting My Tongue” cocktail.</p>
<p>Ah the Prisoner! I saw every episode freshman year along with milk and cookies! Dorm tradition. I’ve thought about getting it on DVD, but I’m sure my kids would diss it. Surprisingly they really enjoy watching old MASH episodes.</p>
<p>Congrats on the great awards! WildChild is also doing a lot of community service- OH WAIT! He HAS to do it for his probation for his fake ID arrest in NJ! Lovely.</p>
<p>I need a drink. I was so excited because as soon as D and her fiance found our for sure that they were coming to Vanderbilt for his medical residency and her seminary, I ordered up a Vanderbilt Divinity t-shirt for her and had it sent directly from the Vandy bookstore. Well, FedEX mis-delivered it and she didn’t get it! Someone else (it was signed for) is now the proud owner of a Vanderbilt Divinity tshirt, I guess. (I’ve filed a claim with FedEx).</p>
<p>Long week here in Nashville. We are building our Arks. Rain, rain, rain.</p>
<p>^^^ LOL MOWC! “Stealing” a Divinity tshirt-- the pique of irony. Sux about the T-shirt though. Hopefully they will get it straightened out.
ANd I’ll bet my s will “sell” your s his documentation of Community service hours. I am sure that is equally wrong on many levels :)</p>
<p>Mafool–
Lucky you that someone else is being the helicopter parent. Enjoy it!!! It’s nice when someone else falls on their sword for a change!</p>
<p>m&s, thanks for the backup.</p>
<p>Im another mom with a son in the height of his slackerness. </p>
<p>He HAS, however, recently developed a unique “EC” (not sure if this one is favored in the halls of Ivy?). He has expressed a great interest, lately, in …</p>
<p>volunteering his time for a bookshop… </p>
<p>a co-op bookshop…</p>
<p>that has a political point of view…</p>
<p>and that is…</p>
<p>wait for it…</p>
<p>anarchy!</p>
<p>TJFS son has niftily figured out a good basic approach to all those rules that constantly trip him up: ignore them! And–bonus-- feel superior about it, because it’s a school of thought!</p>
<p>:eek:</p>