A little Friday vent
by chuckofish
Is it Friday already?
Tonight the OM and I are loading up a rented truck with more stuff for daughter #1 and then driving it to Columbia tomorrow. Luckily the Mizzou freshmen moved in earlier in the week, so we are hoping we won’t run into too much traffic. When I checked to find out if this was the case (student arrival date) I found this:
Check out that Electronics section. I must say times have changed since I moved into my college dorm back during the Punic Wars.
I flew to Smith College from flyover country, so all I had were two duffel bags filled with clothes. I think I brought a clock
and maybe one of these–
(I never used it.) I didn’t even have a typewriter* when I was in college. My roommate and I shared a landline phone with other girls on our floor. There was a broken television set in the living room of our house. I didn’t watch tv for four years!
When my mother was a student at Middlebury College in Vermont back in the 1940s, she took the train. She sent her laundry home in a laundry bag on the train (in the mail?) for her mother to do back home in Worcester, Mass. And her mother sent her laundry back. She probably didn’t have a clock.
Ten years ago when my children were in college, times had changed, and I have no doubt my kids got tired of hearing about it. They had personal computers. However, daughter #1 is quick to remind me that she didn’t have a cell phone until she was a sophomore in college. Deprived, she was, deprived.
But really. Why do people go to college? To watch DVDs? Play computer games? In my day, we read books and studied! We spent a lot of time in the library.
On the weekend we might go to a party, but during the week we studied. That was just the way it was.
Well, I didn’t mean to rant, and I know I sound like an old lady, but a little deprivation might do some college students a lot of good. You know what I mean?
Anyway, I hope I will get to see the wee babes this weekend. I can tell from pictures that they are getting bigger and growing hair since I last saw them a week ago!
I wonder what college will be like in 2035? Maybe the twins won’t go to college. They’ll just be cowboys and ride the range…
Have a good weekend!
*A typewriter=one of these:
Good times.
What a difference from her tiny studio on the Upper West Side! Most of her stuff won’t arrive from NYC for a couple of weeks, but she’ll have plenty to do settling in and luxuriating in all the space, not to mention the lovely pool.
which was not that inspiring and/or funny despite the voices of a lot of well-known actors. 👎
Check it out if you feel so inclined.
Happy belated birthday to Snoopy whose birthday was yesterday. Perhaps you will recall that this was revealed in a comic strip on 8/10/1968. I did not remember that, even though I was a huge fan of Peanuts back in the day.
Perfect. You gotta love those Madeline murals, right?
By the way, on this day in 1821 President James Monroe issued a proclamation which concluded with the words: “The admission of the said State of Missouri into this Union is declared to be complete.” Behind that declaration lay years of struggle and a series of complicated maneuvers designed to maintain the delicate balance of power between the free states and those which permitted slavery.
Last week when daughter #1 was home for a few days and we were sitting out in the Florida room on an unseasonably cool evening, we saw a huge owl swoop down and fly through our yard. He perched on the neighbor’s basketball hoop and we sat and watched him.
This is how my mind works.
It stars Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney and Humphrey Bogart, who are all first-rate, especially Bogart who is remarkably vulnerable as the vicious gangster whose heart is broken twice in one day.
