Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.

Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Jan 17, 2006 4:30:32 pm PST #920 of 10002

There's the rub.

Good god. I think all told, my school is $10-15K more than when I was there. I still can't believe the rental rates for the student apartments. 4 people/apt at almost $800 each. For a 4 bedroom + 1 bath, kitchen, lr. In a market where you could get a studio for $400. A racket. And it was a pain to get permission to be off campus. (There was a req to live on-campus the first couple of years, with very few exceptions, unless you were an adult student or had a kid or something like that.)


msbelle - Jan 17, 2006 4:30:35 pm PST #921 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

What Jesse said, sara. I know nothing of this "get my life together" I know of doing things though. You might wanna make a list and send it to me. We can "work on it together". I might even stop pinching your cheeks.


Sparky1 - Jan 17, 2006 4:31:38 pm PST #922 of 10002
Librarian Warlord

I am reminded of the fact that my 12 months of library school tuition (out of state) cost me more than the total of 3 years of law school tuition (in state).


Jesse - Jan 17, 2006 4:32:49 pm PST #923 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Actually, I need to do that to deal with the enormous piles of crap on my desk. I will NEVER "clean my desk." But maybe I'll deal with the stuff to be filed, or the stuff to shred, or the stuff that just needs a home....


sarameg - Jan 17, 2006 4:32:52 pm PST #924 of 10002

I'll let you know when I stop flailing. It's embarassing and pointless to ask others to deal with it, and the only reason it is coming out now is a) I'm having a bad day and b) annual review time, which brings out all the demons.


libkitty - Jan 17, 2006 4:35:00 pm PST #925 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

I am reminded of the fact that my 12 months of library school tuition (out of state) cost me more than the total of 3 years of law school tuition (in state).

This is why I went to a private university for library school. I figured that if I was going to pay that kind of money, I was going to get the name. That, and there's no library school in Alaska, so in-state tuition was not an option.

eta: Hawaii used to offer reciprocal in-state tuition to Alaska, but then realized that students were mostly going one direction and not the other. Unfortunately, they realized this way before I went to library school.


msbelle - Jan 17, 2006 4:36:16 pm PST #926 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I will now say noodle a lot and make cute concerned faces at my computer. carry on.

asking for help and talking about things should notbe embarrassing. I get that it may still be, but from where I am sitting, it doesn't look like the oh so many things that people do daily that they really SHOULD be embarrassed about (lady dancing in your seat on the subway I am looking at you).


sarameg - Jan 17, 2006 4:39:00 pm PST #927 of 10002

Oooh, and they've closed the loophole I raised holy hell over. When I went for a semester abroad, I threw a shit fit over them trying to charge me room and board, since obviously, not! I won. Now, a semester abroad doesn't have r&b listed, but tuition is higher by the difference. Bastards.

My dealings with financial aid are why I don't give money to my college. I've told them so. I give it to my department (financial aid doesn't see a bit of that) but not the school. They were evilquakers.


sarameg - Jan 17, 2006 4:40:42 pm PST #928 of 10002

It's embarassing when you aren't getting off your ass and doing something. So until then, done now. I hope.


msbelle - Jan 17, 2006 4:49:23 pm PST #929 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ok, my previously posted lists are shifting a bit. I sent the 2 emails I needed to. I read some (obviously not enough to pull me away from here) and I called my aunt who is having a rough time right now.

So while I am ahead, I am going to take my book and go to bed. I declare that today I did NOT suck.