Red Mosquito

wease wrote:Our oldest has had her car hit twice in parking lots the last week and a half.

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

tragabigzanda wrote:saw this thread bumped and was excited for kid tomfoolery; instead I learned about Spike's friend's nightmare strain of strep

How are they doing, by the way?

spike wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:saw this thread bumped and was excited for kid tomfoolery; instead I learned about Spike's friend's nightmare strain of strep

How are they doing, by the way?

Last I heard, she was trending the right way. Brain swelling was finally going down, out of coma, and she was becoming more lucid.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line. his best friend is running for duke next year though.

wease wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line. his best friend is running for duke next year though.

Duke? Fuck that kid

Chris_H_2 wrote:

wease wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line. his best friend is running for duke next year though.

Duke? Fuck that kid

agreed

Chris_H_2 wrote: nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line. his best friend is running for duke next year though.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line. his best friend is running for duke next year though.

But Bill Belichick is here now

Higgs wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

wease wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ugg. My kid's a junior in high school, and this is the first year where we have to schedule our (at least partial) spring break trip around college campus tours. i used to think that people that did this were crazy, until i realized how few opportunities we have to travel during the school year with our kids' classes and sports, and how this stuff basically needs to be done by the beginning of summer so they can narrow down to where they want to apply in time for their apps to be nearly finished by the end of summer (because they have so much on their plates once again starting in mid August when school starts back up).

Coming down to Chapel Hill for a visit?

nah. he doesn't want anything south of the mason dixon line. his best friend is running for duke next year though.

Duke? Fuck that kid

agreed

I still hate Christian Laettner.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:

Yeah, we may have a Jane on our hands. Believe me, we asked her over several days if she was really seeing sparkles or just pretending. After all affirmatives, gotta take it seriously to be safe.

we're in a similar both with a persistent stomach ache. Doc says everything looks fine, but after a couple months of consistent gripes we're taking her to a pediatric GI.