I actually got to sing on stage with her 22 years ago.

I am swooning with envy. I fell in love with her voice decades ago through my mom's ancient but beloved Belafonte at Carnegie Hall LP, and searched local used record stores for years after chasing down her own LPs. I haven't listened to any of them in years now, but just thinking about her voice gives me goosebumps.

so we need a head and shoulders.

Well, my hair is freshly dyed and very, very shiny right now... My head, though, brain a little mushy and am still fighting off a cold a bit.

I love RE in full on rant mode.

Sigh. I must grade 10 more papers today plus a teacher-parent conference at Franny's school. Why this week? Next week I have time, this week NSM. But I am looking forward to the meeting.

Gah. I don't know when I'm flying out back home for Christmas, so I don't know how fast I need to have my father's Xmas gift shipped to me. I guess I splurge on the extra $15, just in case. I guess I must love the guy or something.

I must grade 10 more papers today

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ppllbbbbt!

K-Bug just called me to say she is getting a B in her college Chemistry class. She is also stressing over class registration for next semester. Her time slot is in an hour and apparently there are no more spaces in the Chem class for next semester.

I'm just boggling at them being out of space already. None of the freshmen or sophomores have selected classes yet. Well, the some of the sophomores are registering today...but still...

At least they have registration this early.

When I went to Marquette, you didn't register until the two days before classes started, and times were assigned randomly so that you could be a first-semester freshman with an 8:00 am Monday slot, or a final-semester senior with a 2:00 pm Tuesday slot. Which really blew.

Oh, and being that it was the mid-80s and a cheap-ass Catholic school when it came to updating their systems, all registration was done in person at the old gym--you'd go up to the appropriate department's table and ask for the old-style computer punchcard for the class you wanted. If they were out, you'd have to reconfigure your schedule and then go back and ask for the other class instead. People would be sitting in the center of the gym, frantically reworking their classes to get everything in. Then you had to go through the rest of the building, stopping by the financial room and signing a rather substantial check, get any other forms, etc., in other rooms, before finishing.

My sister went to Bradley two years ahead of me and was flabbergasted by MU's archaic registration. She did everything by phone and dropped off her check at the financial office before the semester started.

Oh, and being that it was the mid-80s and a cheap-ass Catholic school when it came to updating their systems, all registration was done in person at the old gym--you'd go up to the appropriate department's table and ask for the old-style computer punchcard for the class you wanted. If they were out, you'd have to reconfigure your schedule and then go back and ask for the other class instead. People would be sitting in the center of the gym, frantically reworking their classes to get everything in. Then you had to go through the rest of the building, stopping by the financial room and signing a rather substantial check, get any other forms, etc., in other rooms, before finishing.

Heh. That's how UW-Stevens Point was when I was there. Plus there was the occasional student who was crying while angrily flinging her punch cards down onto the ground.

UW-Madison switched to register-by-phone after I graduated. Who knows - I bet soon they'll even let you register in Cyberspace! (You know, the Information Superhighway. Um, are there other terms no one uses anymore?)

This makes me sad: Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character