Vortex, is this student a college student?
YES. Can you believe this shit? I actually haven't gotten back to her.
But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!
Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
Vortex - Sep 19, 2007 9:30:02 am PDT #6198 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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!
megan walker - Sep 19, 2007 9:57:27 am PDT #6204 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Man, even in the 15 years since I was a student, parental involvement is OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS now.
I keep trying to convince people in my office of this, but they don't believe me. We were all watching some slightly risqué Spanish short films for a book we're developing, and when I said there was no way I would show them in class, they thought I was being prudish. I was like "No, I just don't want to deal with the inevitable calls I would get from parents/dean's office." They thought I was kidding.
vw bug - Sep 19, 2007 9:58:55 am PDT #6205 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
So sorry to hear about all the crappy days!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 19, 2007 10:16:03 am PDT #6206 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Man, even in the 15 years since I was a student, parental involvement is OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS now.
I work at a college, and the people in my office call their children's college all the time. My boss is constantly calling/setting up apartments/getting car repairs for her 21 year old daughter and 24 year old son, both still in college. Right now she has no money because she is paying for 2 apartments in addition to her own, one of which her son is not even living in! I keep telling her that she is craxy! She says she does it because her parents were so uninvolved with her life (was on her own the minute she turned 18) and she thinks it ruined her young life. Maybe that is the impetus?
Vortex - Sep 19, 2007 10:21:32 am PDT #6207 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
It's amazing what people do for their kids now. I was talking to my uncle today, my cousin is a freshman here, and I took her to the grocery store the other day. Cause I'm cool, I paid for her stuff. Her dad called to thank me, and he was shocked to find that my college allowance was $100 a month. And most kids I knew didn't get an allowance, they had to work during breaks and save their money!