<p>So what is everone up to this week-end? Kids coming home, or working overtime for upcoming exams, or else staying in bed for 3 days to make up for lost sleep?
D is off to Boston: friends, family and as many useums as she can pack in.</p>
<p>I'm going home (to PA) for the weekend. Hopefully doing a lot of nothing, but I am bringing some homework and Smith-related non-homework with me.</p>
<p>D is off to NYC to see friends. One friend she was expecting to meet braincramped and is flying home for the weekend but it seems she has a fairly full agenda nonetheless.</p>
<p>Lit: I went to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on consecutive days, it's that good, and the Gardner Museum, while a bit erratic as a result of its display philosophy, is definitely worth a gander.</p>
<p>My D is also off to NYC with friends -- but not for the whole break. They wanted the mix of going away AND having the campus nearly to themselves.</p>
<p>TD, the Gardner sounds a lot like the Barnes outside (for now) of Philadelphia.</p>
<p>MWFN: ah, I've heard about the dispute about the Barnes and moving its collection (or not). Yes, it seems equally as idiosyncratic.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I have one comment re the cost of airfare home for Thanksgiving: UGH!!! D couldn't have done it much earlier before nailing down for certain when she could leave. It's the flying back on Sunday that's the killer.</p>
<p>My daughter's off to Montreal with some friends. One of them has friends at McGill. It should be a beautiful drive. And, maybe she'll be able to practice her French; athough when we were there last year, whenever they heard us say bon jour they immediately started speaking to us in English.</p>
<p>Mine's off to NYC to visit friends, and for a graduate school interview at Columbia.</p>
<p>"Meanwhile, I have one comment re the cost of airfare home for Thanksgiving: UGH!!!"</p>
<p>Even winter break was more difficult this year - too close to Christmas.</p>
<p>SmithMom, don't feel bad: I once attempted to order my dinner in French and the waiter bowed almost imperceptibly and said, "Very good, monsieur, and how would you like your tractor broiled?"</p>
<p>"Even winter break was more difficult this year - too close to Christmas"</p>
<p>Last year, winter break started one day later than it does this year. It's a killer even for those of us who don't have to fly our kids home. DH and I drove up on the morning of December 22 and came home with her on the same day. Because of traffic, we spent 11 hours in the car.</p>
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I once attempted to order my dinner in French and the waiter bowed almost imperceptibly and said, "Very good, monsieur, and how would you like your tractor broiled?"
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<p>I just have to add this:
HAHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>This is why I just let my mom translate.</p>
<p>Funniest line from D yesterday's phone call: "Grading <class title="" deleted="">, I'm beginning to feel like Professor Snape."</class></p>
<p>Sorry, I don't get it, TD. May I have subtitles with my tractor, please?</p>
<p>Urrr...get which: the Snape comment or the bit about the broiled tractor?</p>
<p>Snape is the unbearably obnoxious hard-grading professor of Potions in the Harry Potter series, of which D is a big fan.</p>