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.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Vortex - Jan 09, 2008 7:16:35 am PST #1800 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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..
Nutty - Jan 09, 2008 7:32:07 am PST #1806 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Although, let's be fair. I was still a minor when I applied to college, and still a minor when I enrolled. Only for another 10 days, but, I was the reason all the first-years in the dorm couldn't go to the 18-plus show at orientation weekend.
Now, if my mother had called up in the middle of my grad school application, then it would be a competition between the admin and me over who could tell her to butt out first.
Dana - Jan 09, 2008 7:33:55 am PST #1807 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I ended up (probably because of potato talk) making a run to McDonald's to get food for most of the office. One of my coworkers got a kid's meal.
The toy choices were:
Boy: GIANT FLYING ROBOT
Girl: Strawberry Shortcake doll
t sigh
Vortex - Jan 09, 2008 7:35:21 am PST #1808 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Although, let's be fair. I was still a minor when I applied to college, and still a minor when I enrolled. Only for another 10 days, but, I was the reason all the first-years in the dorm couldn't go to the 18-plus show at orientation weekend.
absolutely. If you call me about a legitimate issue, then I am happy to talk to you. Don't call me and demand a room change for your kid to a more expensive room that we aren't going to pay for because she has problems with her roommates.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 09, 2008 7:35:54 am PST #1809 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
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.
Er, dumping the responsibility on you is not OK. Ugh. I'm sorry, that must be stressful and frustrating. And, well, expensive. I think that's a different issue than parents being overly involved in their kid's academic life.