Aimee - take classes, chip away at what you owe and then you can transfer the credits and finish quick, quick.

I admire you doing this while Em is still wee. I know I struggled with working and going to school and my kids were older. It is a challenge, but it is worth the effort.

Run with that itch to learn.

Go community college, choose community college.

(!!!and, apropos of nothing, I find myself suddenly suspecting that I owe you an email from weeks ago! Do I? I do, don't I? God, I freaking suck!)

You do! But its no rush, really.

I do see your argument for going with Christian because of common usage, but I disagree. I really don't like muddy thinking about what is meant by Christian (or Muslim, or Jewish or whatever)... I think it's healthy to recognise how few of the trappings of the holiday season actually have anything to do with Christianity.

Hmmm... fair point. I'd say you can still call them "Christmas" (what with the five or six hundred years of trees) but ought to know they're not religious per se. I may be going with this theory because I think it would be dull to be a Jehovah's Witness.

Unless you miss the pick-up, in which case you leave the tree in the stand but saw off all the branches and leave it in the living room for several months until your daughter moves it out to the porch and then you still keep it around until next Christmas and move it back into the house and hang some fronds and lights on it and tell yourself it looks just like a real Christmas tree!

Or possibly that's just my dad.

Holy COW! Someone is worse than my Mom!!!!! She is going to looooove that story.

Aims, take the classes.... Joe, go take classes, too. You need to get out of customer service. It's a crappy field, and you don't belong there. You deserve better than answering phone calls from dumb, insulting people.

Ooooh! Seany is so smart! Both of you listen to him.

Thank-you notes, on the other hand, definitely do have to be handwritten and in the mail by New Year's, or I can't face my mother.

ditto. Or I can't face your mother either.

12th night!

I know - I told you it was weird.

OOOf Ginger - I messed up the street - it's 34th! What Lisah said.

BrendaM - bwah!

Hey, what's a good synonym/cover letter phrase for "worked on" or "worked with". I'm editing a cover letter for a specific position.

collaborated?

Vortex, maybe you participated, contributed, shared, took part in?

For "worked with" maybe describing what you did?

Aims, take the classes.

Joe, go take classes, too. You need to get out of customer service. It's a crappy field, and you don't belong there. You deserve better than answering phone calls from dumb, insulting people.

t not here

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The paragraph currently reads something like "I worked with Bob on X, Y, and Z. I also worked on A, B, and C"

I want something different for "worked on" in the second sentence.

t points to Kristin's post

I am on my old work campus this AM as I have a dentist appt at 10. I miss is here. Sniff.

Wish me no cavities!!!!