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mister d wrote:No downside there.


Right, I get to be a young Grandpa!
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Daughter made 8th grade volleyball team. She's been on team past two years but there were new coaches this year and they invited (read:told) the basketball players to all try out.

But it turns out they named almost the exact team as last year. Anyway, dodged a big emotional crisis. Because talent, duh.
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The GF's daughter is doing an internship at Patagonia this summer.

70% off makes their stuff pretty damn affordable. Keeping fingers crossed she gets hired there in the spring when she's done with Grad School.
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Is the campus as bad ass as it sounds?
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govmentchedda wrote:Is the campus as bad ass as it sounds?



EH. It's a standard middle school.
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My son threw up all over himself 20 minutes out of the door for a weekend trip to Connecticut. Returned home to find out he has a fever. Wife decides to go with our daughter, leaving my home with the kid. 45 minutes after they leave, he seems pretty normal (although still warm forehead).

So, my son got me out of my wife's 25-year high school reunion.
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DSafetyGuy wrote:My son threw up all over himself 20 minutes out of the door for a weekend trip to Connecticut. Returned home to find out he has a fever. Wife decides to go with our daughter, leaving my home with the kid. 45 minutes after they leave, he seems pretty normal (although still warm forehead).

So, my son got me out of my wife's 25-year high school reunion.

That's a win. I was just at my reunion, and it's easy to tell that being the spouse at one of those is no fun at all (my wife didn't join me). But, I'd figure it would be even worse being the person's kid at a reunion. There were 200 people at my reunion and nary a kid in sight. Your wife took your daughter?
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govmentchedda wrote:Is the campus as bad ass as it sounds?


Which campus? Patagonia? No, its really cool.

UCSB? Seems a bit outdated (the architecture was definitely from the mid-50's Soviet Apartment Bloc style). But boy howdy....was Isla Vista, especially Del Playa, a dump. They out to tear it down and build a slum.
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DaveInSeattle wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:Is the campus as bad ass as it sounds?


Which campus? Patagonia? No, its really cool.

UCSB? Seems a bit outdated (the architecture was definitely from the mid-50's Soviet Apartment Bloc style). But boy howdy....was Isla Vista, especially Del Playa, a dump. They out to tear it down and build a slum.

Ha ha. We are touring UCSB on Tuesday. I'll ask about that!
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I don't get bringing a kid to a reunion. Isn't drinking like the only point?
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Presumably grandparents will be in the vicinity.
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A_B wrote:Presumably grandparents will be in the vicinity.


Aunt and uncle.
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sancarlos wrote:
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govmentchedda wrote:Is the campus as bad ass as it sounds?


Which campus? Patagonia? No, its really cool.

UCSB? Seems a bit outdated (the architecture was definitely from the mid-50's Soviet Apartment Bloc style). But boy howdy....was Isla Vista, especially Del Playa, a dump. They out to tear it down and build a slum.

Ha ha. We are touring UCSB on Tuesday. I'll ask about that!


Ask about the party scene and kids dying at Isla Vista.
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At back to school night last night, one of the middle school gym teachers told me my 11 year old daughter is "a stud". She apparently performed pretty well on the "beep test" last week ("dude, she killed it!").
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Daughter (senior in h.s.) just got accepted into the National Honor Society.

Very proud of her. She had to handle an issue with her application that normally Momma Bear would've handled, but we want her to start taking ownership, and she really stepped up to get things cleared up and get the submission in on time.

Nice little addition to the early decision/early action schools she has applications into at this point.
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Nonlinear FC wrote:Daughter (senior in h.s.) just got accepted into the National Honor Society.

Very proud of her. She had to handle an issue with her application that normally Momma Bear would've handled, but we want her to start taking ownership, and she really stepped up to get things cleared up and get the submission in on time.

Nice little addition to the early decision/early action schools she has applications into at this point.


Nice!
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That's great!

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Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".
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Super cool my dudes.

(I enjoyed grunt)
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Avram wrote:Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".


Wow, super impressive. I may need to go back and reread Grunt. But can she score goals in U-9 girls soccer games? Puts my pride in perspective.
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The Sybian wrote:
Avram wrote:Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".


Wow, super impressive. I may need to go back and reread Grunt. But can she score goals in U-9 girls soccer games? Puts my pride in perspective.



In your defense, Avram's daughter likely isn't 9 years old still. So your daughter has some time.
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Avram wrote:Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".


Wow, super impressive. I may need to go back and reread Grunt. But can she score goals in U-9 girls soccer games? Puts my pride in perspective.



In your defense, Avram's daughter likely isn't 9 years old still. So your daughter has some time.


This poses an interesting philosophical dilemma; if you had to choose whether your daughter does or has something happen to her that gets mentioned in a future Mary Roach book, what do you choose? Topic of the book and reason for the mention are not known in advance. I'm saying no, the risk of tragedy isn't worth the chance of greatness.
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Avram wrote:Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".


Wow, super impressive. I may need to go back and reread Grunt. But can she score goals in U-9 girls soccer games? Puts my pride in perspective.



In your defense, Avram's daughter likely isn't 9 years old still. So your daughter has some time.


This poses an interesting philosophical dilemma; if you had to choose whether your daughter does or has something happen to her that gets mentioned in a future Mary Roach book, what do you choose? Topic of the book and reason for the mention are not known in advance. I'm saying no, the risk of tragedy isn't worth the chance of greatness.


better to be someone mentioned in the book, rather than the title (Stiff,Grunt,etc)
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Avram wrote: better to be someone mentioned in the book, rather than the title (Stiff,Grunt,etc)
she played junior soccer. Was average at best (cursed with my non athlete genes) but she did play hard


I was thinking about all the cadavers in Stiff.
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The Sybian wrote:
Avram wrote:Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".


Wow, super impressive. I may need to go back and reread Grunt. But can she score goals in U-9 girls soccer games? Puts my pride in perspective.


I’m guessing Avram’s daughter would score A LOT of goals in a.U-9 soccer game.
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bfj wrote:
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Avram wrote:Oldest daughter has a PhD in Chem Eng. She is at the Army Labs in Natick Ma in charge of a program to develop the next biochem protective uniform for the Army. She got to brief the Pentagon last week. (She also got a mention in Mary Roach's book "Grunt".


Wow, super impressive. I may need to go back and reread Grunt. But can she score goals in U-9 girls soccer games? Puts my pride in perspective.


I’m guessing Avram’s daughter would score A LOT of goals in a.U-9 soccer game.



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Seems like as good a place as any for this...

So, our daughter, who is generally non-assertive and keeps to herself and her friends (her current teacher wants her to raise her hand more frequently because she knows our daughter knows the answers, a previous teacher wanted to have her do speech therapy because she would tend to withdraw when other kids could not understand what she was saying), stood up for herself this week. Apparently, a couple kids in her second grade class said she looked "like a hobo" because she was wearing a headband that covers her ears. She told my wife, who emailed the teacher, who said she would look into it. Eventually, our daughter told the teacher what happened and the kids were punished (the teacher confided in an email that this behavior is not unusual for these kids) with our daughter continuing to wear the headband. I am pleased that she stood up for herself and didn't let the other kids' opinion change what she wanted to do.

I wrote all of that to ask this:

How do parents feel about your kid tattling on other kids, whether or not they were the victim? The word "tattling" has a negative connotation ("people don't like tattletales") to it, but how do you view tattling in the right/wrong thing to do spectrum (Swamp callback: even if it is stealing post-its from your employer)?
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The fact that it’s multiple against one makes it no-doubt ok to go to the teacher. And it’s awesome she’s sticking with the headband.
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Yeah, she did the right thing. I wouldn't consider this "tattling," this is fighting back against a pair of bullies.

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My son was just accepted at Colorado School of Mines.

(Now I need to post the same thing in the Random Shit That Makes You Feel Old thread.)
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Steve of phpBB wrote:My son was just accepted at Colorado School of Mines.

(Now I need to post the same thing in the Random Shit That Makes You Feel Old thread.)


Congrats Steve!
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I'd make so many "oh so now you WANT to be quiet?!?" jokes and then he'd go "Dad, it's mines" and then we'd laugh and laugh.
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Awesome dude. Let me know if he wants to come east for an internship!
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A_B wrote:Awesome dude. Let me know if he wants to come east for an internship!


AB's company would love some free laborers to shove down a mine.
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A_B wrote:Awesome dude. Let me know if he wants to come east for an internship!


AB's company would love some free laborers to shove down a mine.


Heck no we pay our interns pretty well!
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Funny, today I flipped off a car with a Colorado School of Mines Mom license plate cover.
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It's a great school and certainly not exclusively fossil fuels at all.
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Precious metals too!
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