All this potato talk is making me crave carbs for lunch.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Jan 09, 2008 7:05:59 am PST #1796 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2008 7:06:08 am PST #1797 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My son can't view his porn!
Daisy Jane - Jan 09, 2008 7:07:52 am PST #1798 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
When I was a senior, my mother had me 1) Fill out all the applications for college and financial aid by myself 2) Call to arrange visits etc. by myself 3) Figure out how to get to those schools by myself while also looking for a summer job and studying for finals.
Grow up, people!
Sparky1 - Jan 09, 2008 7:09:23 am PST #1799 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I've had parents of law students call me to ask me what books their children should buy, and to ask why they got a certain grade in my class.
My math prof sister just had a student (not her mom) ask her to change her F to a C because she's transferring. (She had an average of 53% in the class.) The reason she thought she deserved a C? Because she'd taken the class twice before (and gotten a D or F).
Vortex - Jan 09, 2008 7:16:35 am PST #1800 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I have heard some horror stories from my faculty colleagues. The beauty of law school was that I could say "your kid is an adult, I can't talk to you about anything, goodbye" I can still do that to a certain extent, but we are expected to talk to parents. I can't tell them anything, but I'm expected to talk to them.
juliana - Jan 09, 2008 7:21:09 am PST #1801 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Timelies.
C - Hash browns, F - French fries, M - Tater tots
C - Aeryn (John will kill me if I try anything), F - Buffy, M - Zoe
C - Achilles, F - Odysseus, M - Hector
C - Indian food, F-Vietnamese food, M-Chinese food
C - 6 a.m., F - noon, M - midnight
C - Lunch, F - Dinner, M - Breakfast
Oh, well, yeah. It's near Baltimore, but it's Reisterstown.
facepalm
Sophia Brooks - Jan 09, 2008 7:23:01 am PST #1802 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm flabbergasted that a parent would call for her grown son. This is a college program, right?
Don't be. It is crazy, I tell you, crazy!
Trudy Booth - Jan 09, 2008 7:23:22 am PST #1803 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Chris Matthews Butters Up Giuilani: "Are You Being Screwed By The Press?"
Only if they're chicks.
(He's been married at least a year. The affairs will kick in soon.)
sounds like the c-s guy was at least an improvement in the nice and empathetic category.
C-S is deffinately toward the woo-woo end of the spectrum, but I've seen it produce results in people with chronic untreatable shit. And it doesn't hurt. (I don't mean it does no harm, I mean it feels nice. If anything our ita deserves something that feels NICE)
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2008 7:31:04 am PST #1804 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, it hurt. But at that point breathing in my direction hurt, so it's nothing against him. He's left me with exercises, so it doesn't feel very woo-woo, although his delivery was very psychic-like, with the open-ended and the probing. Good luck with that working with me when I'm in a lot of pain.
Scrappy - Jan 09, 2008 7:32:04 am PST #1805 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My niece is here to start college. This is the niece who flunked out of her first school because of substance abuse and has been in rehab three times. We are kind of ticked because she is staying with us for the week and there was no prep, other than her dad emailing me what days she was arriving. We are paying for every meal and doing all the arranging and driving, plus she packed her own stuff, but doesn't have a lamp or supplies or anything, so we are buying her those. I don't know where parental involvement should stop or start, so maybe I am expecting too much. I am glad to know they trust us to figure everything out and get it all done, but you think they'd be a bit more involved..