<p>Yep. We did in fact pick up the urchin. But that was a two day turn-around. As for the rest? As I told someone a while back in a p.m. - I think I’m running out of valuable things to say. Of course that is making the wild assumption that anything I’ve said had value but … hey, I can hope. </p>
<p>But my good friend LTS is right. My manners could have been better.</p>
<p>Welcome back. I haven’t been around here all that long, but I missed you, too.
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<p>Well, Curmudgeon, it’s just that - well you didn’t even leave a note on the refrigerator! And besides, it absolutely is not true that you are running out of valuable things to say and in fact your posts will become more valuable as time goes on. A healthy percentage of the CC community reads your posts just because YOU wrote them, even if they have zero interest in or knowledge about the thread topic. And I am sure a lot of people here agree with me 100%, even the democrats. </p>
<p>Right guys?</p>
<p>Even those who lean libertarian. The closer college creeps, the more valuable the advice of curmudgeon becomes.</p>
<p>Nice to hear from you Cur…especially as I’ve been doubly curmudgeonly back at you in the near past…</p>
<p>Looks to me like you were trying to sneak out the back door all quiet-like but stepped on a creaky board…don’t even try–the doors are booby-trapped and we know where you live (and Texas’s not that big, right?)</p>
<p>It’s fine, curm. Really. All the Jewish mothers here require someone who doesn’t call or write. We need this at the tissue level. Really. its. fine. (sniff)</p>
<p>p3t, ahhhhh, good old guilt!</p>
<p>Here’s why you haven’t “been around too long”. Last week one of D’s friends decided to go to Rhodes instead of one of several more well known schools in our area. Friends and parents-of-friends were openly questioning his sanity - who ever heard of that little school? Since I’ve indoctrinated her to the wisdom here, d was able to pipe up with all kinds of good info about Rhodes. WHo knows, some other kid might have been listening? The word gets out slowly, but it gets out.
(Now if only someone in her graduating class has heard of Whitman…)</p>
<p>“A healthy percentage of the CC community reads your posts just because YOU wrote them, even if they have zero interest in or knowledge about the thread topic.”</p>
<p>Count me in on that!</p>
<p>I fully concur with LTS on Post #63…Welcome back Curmudgeon! :)</p>
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<p>How true, how true. Plus DD just reminded me last night, “I graduate in exactly 1 month. I go to college in exactly 3 months and 21 days.”</p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>Right guys. And if unnamed people bash you in well-meaning threads, we will bite them to death like ducks:).</p>
<p>DM: I’ve heard of Whitman- awesome school!</p>
<p>curmudgeon: while you were out, hope you did some fund-raising for Confidentialia College. Otherwise we can’t afford to pay for your statue, let alone your salary.</p>
<p>Do you think if I posted on the “decision” thread that a (nonexistent) D decided to attend Confidentialia, that anyone would notice? I’m half inclined to do it. I loved that thread.</p>