Yes! Everyday should be Be Nice to Beverly Day!

If I weren't in Florida I might have a different feeling about ballots, but I will never forget that my county ballot gave the presidency to George Bush. What a different world we would live in if we hadn't taken that turn toward insanity.

If the Reagan attempt had succeeded.

Course, that wasn't due to ballots.

Apparently my phone number is tied into the county emergency alert system. I was sitting there reading fic when this ominous alarm started blowing up about evacuations down by the fire. Good to know I'll know about things, but for a second I wondered if the fic police were after me.

Buffy was a faceless tiny blonde girl who was riding on a futuristic Hogwarts train

For some reason, I parsed this at first as her riding ON TOP OF the train. Hey, if it's a dream.....

Timelies all!

Well, we made it to the resort. Mr. S didn't nap at all today, as usual, and has been a total cranky pants. I'm a bit cranky myself, Let's see how well we get through this. (The resort is lovely, but not the right place for us,)

I am all up in my feelings. I am seeing posts of parents I know doing college visits with their kids these last 2 weeks before schools here start.

msbelle, are you worried about mac not being interested in looking at colleges, or feeling bad that you're not taking him on those visits, or something else?

If it makes you feel any better, I was just having a discussion with a bunch of HS teachers today about how the relentless push for college for every kid isn't actually a good thing for every kid. Plenty of them would do better to take a year or two "off" before college, or more, and take the time to figure out what they want out of life *before* spending a bucketload of money on more school. I don't know if this is true of mac, of course -- just throwing it out there.

I wish he was interested in a path after high school: college, technical school, apprenticeship at a career.

So what do these kids do in those one to two years "off"? Because living at home is a no go and he won't make enough money working fast food to afford an apartment.

He will end up registered at the nearby Community College by default because that is what the no-plan having friends are doing. It's not because they have any interest in that school, or because it has a program that their parents know is good. It is closest, it is cheapest, and the path of least resistance.

Msbelle, you know what fits your son. But have the fleeting feels.

So I've apparently become the mentor/confessor to... our newest scientist. This.is.not.how.this.was.supposed.to.work. I'm doing a kinda crappy job training my own minion, but bangup job with this one. Uncertain in claiming their authority/not feeling like they know enough/ worried about the politics? look, I have social & political capital to burn, I know these people & culture, I'll forge the path if you make the case to me & I agree. You feel at sea? That's OK! No one expected you to know 25 yrs in a damned 8 weeks. Plus, they got a responsibility for a project no one else wanted to touch because such a nebulous nightmare, I only can describe the intent, not machinations. And they are doing great! More progress in 2 months than we've made in a year.

But I'm totally their venting-buddy-emotional-support-reference-desk. It's weird (and the wrong person! Where is my minion? Where is their scientist mentor?)

I've got to train & bond more with my minion.

We kinda suck at training/mentoring, except it is good to know I don't totally suck, just misdirected. Oy.

nothing fits him. he has unrealistic expectations and illusions of grandeur. He has never studied or worked hard. He blows through money. He has a car not starting right now and refuses to even help me try to figure out what it might be. He does nothing to help around the house, only sees his grandparents when I force him to and bucks any and all attempts to prep him for what is awaiting him in 12 months.

My brother suggested I start talking to him about EBT processes rather than college.