Vortex, is this student a college student?
Because, um, yikes!
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 19, 2007 9:08:03 am PDT #6194 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
WindSparrow - Sep 19, 2007 9:12:30 am PDT #6195 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
d, news of the good is just what the parrot ordered. Arrrrr.
{{{{Cash&Owen}}}}}
{{{{Kristin}}}}
DavidS - Sep 19, 2007 9:21:13 am PDT #6196 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
::takes Kristin out of her misery and puts her into her happy::
I'm so sorry, Cash. That's very upsetting and stressful. It just hits on so many different areas aside from your concerns about Owen as well. Finances, your time, how it affects Olivia, stress in the marriage.
Pix - Sep 19, 2007 9:25:06 am PDT #6197 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks, loves.
I've now also found that one of the parents has unmedicated bipolar, and another has been described as "unrelentingly obnoxious."
It's going to be a long year.
Vortex, you have to be kidding me. College parents are writing this to you? Wh-huh?
Vortex - Sep 19, 2007 9:30:02 am PDT #6198 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Vortex, is this student a college student?
YES. Can you believe this shit? I actually haven't gotten back to her.
Fred Pete - Sep 19, 2007 9:40:54 am PDT #6199 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
((((Cashmere and family))))
((((Kristin))))
Vortex, this is where it gets tempting to send someone on a wild goose chase.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 19, 2007 9:46:41 am PDT #6200 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Man, even in the 15 years since I was a student, parental involvement is OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS now. Seriously, I would go for weeks without talking to my folks, and really the only fallout would be that I would just be calling them for money and would kind of get grief for that.
(I did like going home on weekends sometimes though, because I could do laundry, eat free food, and sleep in a room by myself.)
I am SO glad that cell phones were not a thing when I was in college.
Susan W. - Sep 19, 2007 9:52:32 am PDT #6201 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Tell me about it. Even ten years ago when I was in the biology academic office at Penn, we'd get calls from parents upset because their kids had gotten into Dr. D's Biology 101 lecture when the student rating book thingummy said Dr. B was a better professor. (Which is perfectly true. Dr. D was a brilliant researcher and grad student mentor who sucked at teaching undergrads. There are several in every department, but they have to teach a 100 or 200-level course on occasion anyway.) And it boggled my mind, because my parents figured that, having sent me off to college, they were going to let me take care of myself, since I was 900 miles away and all.
hippocampus - Sep 19, 2007 9:54:46 am PDT #6202 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
{{{Cashmere & Owen}}}
{{KristenT}} - ei.
hooray for d-pére! That's wonderful news... I'm sure he's excited too.
Pix - Sep 19, 2007 9:55:37 am PDT #6203 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Today needs to go away and die.
Except for d's great news. YAY!