Fly the friendly skies

[clevermanka]

Troops pay baggage fees on way to war zones.

How low can the airlines stoop? Let's find out!

Another thing I love about my job: When parents.

Of potential graduate students.

Call me to set up campus visits for their precious little one. Hm. Don't you think it's time to shove that particular little birdie out of the nest, folks? I mean come on.

I'm down almost three pounds from the five gained last week on the Restaurant Binge. Hoo-fucking-ray for easy water weight loss. It's nice when a few days of sensible eating eliminates (ha ha! PUN!) that feeling of nasty-heavy-bloat grossness.

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[lightonthesill.livejournal.com]

*airline rage*

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Now that it's on CNN, I give it about ten minutes until this policy is revoked. But the fact that they instigated it at all is abhorrent.

[lightonthesill.livejournal.com]

I hope so. And with the news I've had today of R deploying next year... I'd happily crawl down someones throat to add fuel to the fire for them to make the change.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mac_/]

"Boo" on the airlines, but also "Boo" on the government for not arranging fully paid flights to begin with.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I know.

For some reason, I always assumed that this sort of thing was, you know, pre-arranged. I guess not.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. Or something.

*sigh*

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Consider it the duties those parents assume by continuing to deduct their darling "children" as dependents.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Nope. Anyone who has even the inclination to go to graduate school needs to step up to the plate and muster the responsibility to make her own damn appointments.

[mechascorpio.livejournal.com]

Barbe and I were talking the other night about how prevalent it seems that this current generation of grads don't seem quite so anxious to leave the nest, and the parents for some reason encourage it. Moving home after college, paying their bills... basically picking up where they left off in High School. Certainly not all, but seems to be a greater percentage than what I saw in the mid/late 80s.

Heck, I moved into and paid for my own place in Senior Year... of High School! Maybe it's my generation that's the aberration.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I've mentioned in other posts about how this trend of infantalizing our young people is worrisome. We're raising a population of helpless, whiny, and self-centered babies. It's scary.

I never thought I'd be one of those people who say "kids these days," but...here I am.

[mechascorpio.livejournal.com]

I just wish they'd stay off my lawn. And I don't even have a lawn.

[platofish.livejournal.com]

Last night, someone was telling me that her husband only got his undergrad degree because his mom kept calling the school and telling everyone he deserved to graduate.

WTF!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Now that's something to be proud of. *headdesk*

[platofish.livejournal.com]

The guy hadn't completed the majority of the assignments, or gone to class, or even submitted his final portfolio of work.....but...

It was an very expensive private school, so his mom presumably felt she had 'paid' for his degree, and the amount of work he'd done (or not done) was irrelevant.