<p>That's it!-- 600 thread count tencel sheets, with velcro-closure neck opening in center; wear in shower like giant poncho 1x per week to clean. Available at Patagonia for $199.99 per set.</p>
<p>If anyone in this bar can do an infomercial, we can all retire.</p>
<p>More thread titles:</p>
<p>Suggest Reaches, Matches & Safeties for someone too lame to read the Fiske Guide
Wanted: urban, cool, prestige top LAC in NE; not selective
Dumb, lazy & untalented: is there hope for me at HYPS?
Is rooming with my SO freshman year a good idea?
Which schools have the best drugs?
What schools have so much merit aid I can graduate wealthy?</p>
<p>All right guys, open the champagne. Daughter just got the ELC letter from UC (!!!!!)</p>
<p>For those of you non-Californians who are wondering, "ELC" means "Eligibility in the Local Context" and is given to the kids in the top 4% of every California high school, using a ranking formula calculated by the UC, and essentially gives the students priority admission to the UC's. It is a very big admissions boost at all campuses, and a virtual guarantee of admission at the less competitive campuses.</p>
<p>Yeah, but if you wear your bedsheets into the shower, you have to remake your bed. Your DDs and DSs would much prefer bedsheets that self-clean while they're in class. Calling MIT folks:</p>
<p>Some Veuve for Calmom! Also, some chocolates and a wedge of boursin! Great news! :)</p>
<p>(The chocolates are from my family, who finally developed separation anxiety and realize that CARE packages are good things for stressed, cranky law students. ;) )</p>
<p>calmom - Super news. Now your D can spend all her time in Sinners Alley :eek: Oh? you want her to finish college first? :cool: Okay, she can have Snapple in her glass.</p>
<p>SBmom: I think that you may have started a new trend in college fashion! But the downside is that we parents will have to buy several sets of these expensive 600-thread items because students can't just have one set of clothing.</p>
<p>Marite: when you speak of remaking a bed, I'm afraid that you're assuming it was made when the sheets were taken off to be worn. After all, if you can wear your sheets, what need to make the bed? Just get in, pull up the covers and there you are.</p>
<p>Don't sass me now, Aries, or I will recite, "Last Year's Shopping, Checklists, and Bedding Threads," from beginning to end, without any commercial interruptions. That is, until I fall off of my barstool. ;)</p>
<p>Or, you'll have to go sit in the booth with the controlling moms. Now, they're talking about how to construct the most kickass California mission out of sugar cubes, Popsicle sticks, and tiny, automatronic farm animals. :)</p>
<p>Moot, thank goodness the box finally got there (my D actually picked up her DHL delivery that was sitting in the school's P.O. for 2 weeks. She called and I told her about your son).</p>
<p>Congrats on son becoming homecoming prince- we've never had one of those before so we will need details.</p>
<p>Why cant there be an all purpose self cleaning sheet that when you throw it on the mad it form its to the mattress and when you throw it on your body it makes a nice looking toga . Slugg and I would be happy & willing to try it out because we've never had a toga party on SA.</p>
<p>This morning's conversation went something like this:</p>
<p>H: [Looking at the calendar] What's "Senior Specific?"</p>
<p>Me: [Sitting at the computer reading a thread about missing your college kids (not the milk carton version, but the heartstrings kind of missing), once again reminded that I don't miss mine.] I don't know, something they want us to go to. I suppose we should. Do YOU want to go<a href="hoping%20that%20he'll%20fold%20like%20a%20cheap%20suit">/i</a>?* </p>
<p>H: [Suddenly, onto me] *I suppose we should make ONE showing at the high school this year before he graduates.<a href="Lots%20of%20%22shoulds%22%20in%20this%20conversation,%20so%20far.">/i</a></p>
<p>Me: What time is it?
H: 7:40
Me: [Accustomed to repeating myself] What time is the meeting, tonight?
H: Like...Seven
Me: Like Seven, or Seven-Thirty?
H: [Checking the calendar] It's at Seven.
Me: Okay, let's sit in the back row by the door and leave early.
H: [Lost interest 5 minutes ago] Yeah, I guess, we should go to this thing.</p>
<p>Is that great parenting, or what? :) We've got a bad case of Senior Parentitis.</p>
<p>::::confetti:::Overdue congrats to Calmom's D!:::: :)</p>
<p>Mootie: Send the next care pkg with a USPS Signature Delivery Confirmation (fill out a bright pink mailing label at the post office). It's about a dollar and a half more for postage, but you can confirm the delivery online and get the name of the person who signed for it when it was delivered. Chances are, somebody in the mailroom will be able to recognize the signature, and then, follow up with that person. ;)</p>
<p>Mootmom--we used UPS to send some packages (one of them a bulky musical instrument) to D at Cambridge. She had no trouble getting them. Maybe a switch from DHL to UPS would cure the package limbo blues.</p>
<p>CalMom- D selected Cal over all our encouragement to try smaller places- she simply did not want to go back east, she did visit the schools where she gained admittance and she wanted to be at Cal, that was her first choice from day 1 and stayed it the entire time. She has run into most "big school" bureaocratic issues we predicted and doesn't care, those problems can be solved, she is where she wnats to be. If you have any questions about the experience over the year, Momof1inca and I both have frosh there ;)</p>
<p>Alumother, my d's test scores aren't good enough for top scholarships like Regents. She might qualify for a Dean's scholarship at UCSC - obviously her grades are good. </p>
<p>Somemom, up until now she hasn't wanted a UC, but she knows that she has to apply for financial reasons. My deal with her is that I will finance any college that meets or comes very close to the cost of attendance at a UC WITH financial aid -- in other words, I'll pay our FAFSA EFC. Single parent, dad in picture but he doesn't contributed, self-employed - making financial aid a crap shoot. </p>
<p>I say up until now because she is on the east coast visiting colleges right now and she is coming up disappointed. American U. seems best in terms of academics & programs, but student body seems too homogenous t (white+ preppy). Goucher is friendlier, but way too small -- bored already after being there "forever" (can't be more than 6 hours at this point). GWU is off her list, ugly buildings. She doesn't want to get too emotionally invested in any reach colleges -- she wants to be able to choose her college, not have the college choose her. (Yes, she'll apply, but her focus is on match/safety schools)</p>
<p>But I definitely will welcome comments about Cal. Because of d's choice of major together with her ELC status, odds are good that she can get into Cal - though UCSC is the first choice, safety for her. She thinks all the UC's are too big- she wants a university with around 4000-6000 students. I'm trying to convince her that it doesn't seem so enormous when you are on campus. We'll see.</p>
<p>Pass me a beer, I'm talking college stuff- I'll end up spoiling the mood.</p>