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Archive through January 20, 2004

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Mocha

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well I can squeeze between them and lay belly-up too, lol.

Jeep

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Mocha.

<jeep runs over, smacks Zules for having warm weather, runs back out>

Mocha

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Zules, I can be packed in an hour. You picking us up?

Wargod

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Congratulations Aunt Kimmo! Aren't new babies so exciting?

Kimmo

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They are, Wargod :) It's about the time when I want to start trying for #2, and seeing this new baby only reinforces that idea!

Wargod

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had that same idea since my newest neice was born, lol. We decided a couple years ago we were done with 2 and most of the time when I'm sane, I'm happy with that. New babies though turn me to mush.

Kimmo

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I wasn't mushy about babies at all until I had mine. Strange to think!

Kaili, interesting tips on ID security. I hadn't thought about not putting your full name on the check. Funny-- My full name is on my checks, but that isn't how I sign it anyway-- So I guess I'm OK in that respect!

Zules

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sure, Mocha, I'll pick you up just let me know Fort Lauderdale or Miami and you'll be basking in the sun in no time!

Abbynormal

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Even if you don't watch the soap opera "Passions", you should make a point to go over to that thread and read Sweetbabygirl's thoughts on this show. She truly makes me LOL, the girl has skilz, plus she's a nut! :)

Mocha

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Abbynormal, I actually watched the last 15 mins of Passions today so I'll pop over there.

Zules, Miami sounds good to me.

Calamity

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw this odd bright silver thing in the sky this afternoon while driving back to work from the Post Office. I thought it might be a helicopter but it just faded away. Ice crystals, maybe? Anyway, I hope it was a sign of good luck!

Tabbyking

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i am going to have to try and quit worrying over my ds away at school! he is finding some of his classes very difficult again this quarter. i am barely sleeping. i will go to bed at 11:00 and wake up before 2:00 a.m. totally wide awake and worrying about things i cannot possibly help him with! my stomach hurts, my legs ache, my head aches... and i just totally stress over his difficulties.
if you are like me, you just don't want your kids to fail/hurt at anything (and sometimes wonder why they choose the most difficult major at a very good school known nationally for this major, sigh) and you are helpless to do anything but encourage them!
this morning, i found myself wide awake at 2:18...remembering that today was the last day of the quarter to drop or add a class. although he dropped chemistry the first day and added a math class, and i have seen it on the official schedule page, i was totally worried that just dropping the class on-line did not really take him out of the class, and he will get an "F" for not showing up and will be sent home, etc. of course, when i got up (i would have come down at 2:18, except that i had people sleeping in the living room and people sleeping in the family room, and a husband that already was going to disturb them at 3:15 when he left for work and a dd who was already going to disturb them when she left for school at 7:15...:) ) of course, part of it is still seeing the chem class and syllabus and prof's notes on my son's blackboard page...i guess those things don't get deleted, but it looked as if he maybe hadn't done something right in dropping the class! you see, all stupid things or things out of my control...and i still lose sleep over them!
i want to have my son succeed in college, and would hurt for him if he had to come back home and go the community college route (closest community colleges are merced or modesto, at least 40 miles away), and then i worry that he would never finish because it would take years to complete his AA....
ah, you can see, that tabby needs a de-stresser bad!
i do, therefore, believe that the 'odd bright silver thing' calamity saw in the sky may well have been my brain disintegrating.....LOL

Sunrvrose

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 4:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kaili, thank you for the cc tips. Many things I also hadn't thought of.

And thanks for the cleaning tips, they will be on my refrigerator in the morning. LOL :)

Texannie

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
((((((tabby))))))

Teachmichigan

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tabby...

Breathe darlin'! Now...worse case scenario...what would happen if DS DID get an "F"? Would your world end? Would his? or would he just have to take the class (or another one) again?

Second...is he struggling because of the switch between HS and college? because of his abilities? because of his study habits? If he's working hard and still struggling, ask him about tutors or study partners. Colleges always offer these things, if students take advantage of them. If it's a matter of "motivation" on his part...you can't do a darn thing about it. Believe me...if I knew of a way to motivate all my students all the time, I'd be rich!! :)

As a teacher of 12 years, I think that sometimes the best thing for a student is one really big screw up. It shows them consequences, and they (hopefully) learn a lesson for life. In that transition between HS and college, it often takes a semester or two for the student to get into the swing of things. Depending on his HS classes, teachers, etc. it may just be a REALLY big step. Give him time...those who really want the education figure out a way to make it happen.

((((TABBY))))) Get some sleep gal....you're a wonderful mom...and he'll show you how well you've done given the time!

Tabbyking

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
he already had his one big screw up and got an F in calculus for fall, which he is retaking (with a different professor). part of it definitely is our rinky dink high school and a college where electrical engineering is one tough major. (for example, our h.s. only teaches calc with a calculator and there were always 3 problems on an exam. cal poly has NO calculators, period, and 6 problems on exams--in the same 50 mins he had in h.s. to take a test.. half the time, son could not even finish an exam.) he went to the professor and 21 kids from his class of 35 were there for the same hour to get help. we paid 50 dollars an hour to a private tutor for 4 hours--on 4 separate days. the tutor called me and told me he had never seen such tough exams and that nothing my son had done during the weeks was what was on the exams. (son would get all 80 to 100 percents on homework and classwork and then have exams that had no relation to what they had been doing.) this was a brand new professor and his wife is brand new to teaching chemistry. there was no 'polyratings' to check and see what they were like, since they were new to cal poly. ds is doing okay in calculus this time, but his computer science prof has a reputation for expecting the kids to know a lot before taking his 'intro class'. ds did fine the first few classes, even on the labs, but they had a major lab that he spent 3 hours in the class lab on , and 8 hours from his own room to complete. it was an 'all or nothing' assignment and my son got 99% done, so i guess he gets nothing. he could not get his name into specific parts of the document, and it said 'null' in all those spaces. i don't understand it, so couldn't help him anyway! (java)... but he had 2 friends who are computer engineering majors try to figure it out and they couldn't help him, either!
he is on academic probation for his F in calc fall quarter. if he gets academic probation again, they can send him home. and we are going broke paying for it!
so that is what worries me. he is working hard, the transition has been difficult (our high school is ranked a 2 out of 10 for high schools in california, and cal poly is ranked in the top 5 nationwide for engineering, even placing above the air force academy this year), we have paid for tutors, he is working with other students....

and yes, if he got an "F" it could be devastating, since he already had one fall quarter! having to retake a class, as he is now with calc, is not the end of the world, but being sent home would be pretty awful! he was so proud when he got accepted. there were only 2 kids from our h.s. accepted to this college and the girl is taking nutrition classes; ds was accepted to their college of engineering.

he also hates college now. i'm sure his attitude would change if he just could break through some of these obstacles. i remember detesting math class in junior high, til one day i just got it! and then i got all A's and my class started calling me 'smarty pants'...gosh, did i love math then :)

but hey! i didn't wake up til 3:00 this morning. of course, i went to bed at 12:00 instead of 11:00, so i seem to be getting my usual 3 hours before i wake :)

thanks for your commiseration!!

Teachmichigan

Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 8:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Poor kid...sounds like a rough road he's got. He's doing what he can, that's for sure! Lot of hugs his way (sorry...no "math vibes" from this English teach! LOL)....and some SLEEP vibes for you!

Zules

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tishala

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tabby, let me offer a few suggestions for your son about college since I'm a professional student and I teach undergrads myself.

First, there should be university-provided tutoring for students that doesn't cost $40 an hour; in fact, it will be free. Although there will be significant cuts to tutoring budgets in the CA tate system because of our governer's cuts, this is still available. And he probably has TAs who are far more dedicated than tenured professors and who can be helpful in terms of studying, etc. Make him explore those options. If he already has, make him continue.

Second, EE is a notorious major for creating classes that are "wash out" classes--they want to fail a large portion of the students as a way of keeping the departmental egos intact and making the program seem exclusive to outside rankings. It might be a good idea for your son to take some more GE courses so he can get his feet wet with the college atmosphere and the independence of college life before he goes full bore into the EE courses....take it slowly. And he might have to rethink EE as a major. There are other fields available, certainly, and I run into students all the time who change majors because of shifting interests or because of the academics of departments. He should keep his options open so he can succeed at Cal Poly AND enjoy his time there.

Ladytex

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*yawn*

Mornin' y'all! My bed was feeling awfully comfy this morning and I swear I still hear my pillow calling my name.

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is it just me, or is anyone else having a problem getting the Topics page to load? I'm just getting a blank page.

Kaili

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Doesn't work for me either, but I never use it so it's not a problem. I wouldn't have even known :)

Llkoolaid

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Me either, I want to add the American idol thread and don't know how. I know there is one but the only way I can get to it is to go to the thread I started and there is a link. Shouldn't there be some other way.

Hippyt

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Topics page is blank. Very strange,wonder if Neil is working on the new site.

Egbok

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I got that too Hipster....he must be up to something.