If babies were always like the lemon video, I'd have three. If cats are ever like the knocking things over video...oh, okay, whew. I'm good.
CHRIS EVANS, I HATE YOU. YOU RUIN MY LIFE. (What's My Number is on again..)
Just found an email from sis titled
Call home immediately - for fun times!
You know what? Even the half second is too long. Just don't. The fucking fractional anecdote does have my father chasing someone yelling thief, and, well, my mother already chased her mugger, and my father walked into an armed robbery, so ha ha, can't wait to find out the entire story.
DAMNIT LOKI STOP CLEARING THE SHELVES! [link]
Oh good lord.
At least, when Cagney knocks something over, it is unintentional. Not this wholesale mayhem!
I should add that he is a total scaredy-dog, so knocking things over is even less appealing to him than, say a happy dog tail coffee table clearing, or a counter surfing thief.
Spare Cat starts knocking stuff off the desk when she wants attention. Not much subtlety for a cat.
Leifur only knocks my emery board off the cedar chest. I think he wants me to reach my fully taloned potential.
JFC -- Harvard just announced its capital campaign goal, and it's $6.5 billion. With a B.
I got my email from Drew last night (I am a Harvard affiliate at the moment, which amuses me.) Harvard already has more money by FAR than any other university - more money than they can responsibly spend, even! Maybe they'll give it all to the SNAP program and feed the poor? (Or, you know, not.)
Ah ha ha. At least they have good financial aid. (I wish all high-achieving low-income kids knew to apply to the fanciest schools possible, because there is so much aid possible.)
Timelies all!
Nova frequently knocks things off of desks or nighttables. We refer to it as testing gravity. (Or "making sure we paid the gravity bill" which I got elsenet.)
The thing is, those high-achieveing low-income kids who do get into Harvard have a hard row to hoe even if they get a full ride. They are often underprepared academically, through no fault of their own but through the fault of public schools unable to challenge them sufficiently. (I attended Choate, and my freshman year of college at Bryn Mawr was easier than my senior year of high school.) And the social disconnect is HUGE. There were Prep-for-Prep kids at Choate and they had a lot of support and a cohort and it was still really hard for them. Heck sometimes it was hard for me, and my father is a doctor and my mother taught at Choate. When it seems like everyone is talking about which Caribbean island is the best, and you spent spring break at home...
Oh, absolutely. Maybe a bigger school is easier? My freshman year college roommate was Prep-for-Prep at Andover, and she did OK. Of course, she found a cohort to the extent that she couldn't talk to me for a big chunk of the year, due to her sorority's pledging rules.
But I don't know how much more manageable a mid-range school would be, anyway, and a full ride is better than not.
Always keeping in mind, I know basically nothing about education!
