Patrick insists on learning about life the hard way.  He's a lot like
his old man that way.  I'm just glad he only sat out one semester
before deciding to go to school.  The next painful lesson will be that
you can get the same class at a suburban community college as you can
at the urban community college, without dealing with rush hour traffic.
  That one's going to hurt.  Because everyone knows that the suburbs are
populated by homophobic, racist, neo-nazis and hyper-prosteltizing
christian pink-o's; and the urban areas are populated by intellectuals,
social progressives, artists, philosophers, chess players and
punkpeople.  Damn its a pain when the world turns out to be more
complex than you thought.

-jc

On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Pamela S. Follett wrote:

> Ah - Sean had this same problem last semester (also his 1st).  We went
> on
> the last day to register because he had to do it in person being a
> frosh and
> we ended up with classes at 3 different campuses on every day of the
> week -
> that is, some days he would go to the main campus, other days he went
> to 2
> other campuses, all about 20 miles apart from one another.  I say "we"
> because son doesn't yet drive alone and the bus service here is quite
> limited.  Thankfully, this semester, he registered on the 1st or 2nd
> day
> available, got one online class and all other classes on the main
> campus
> just on T's and R's, so "we" are much happier.  We may even try the bus
> service this week or next for practice so mom can get a break and
> maybe find
> a paying job.
>
> Yours in co-misery.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Callan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 16:27
> Subject: Re: [BP] Dying keyboard
>
>
>> I advised him that registering for classes was not something a first
>> semester freshmen should put off to the last moment.  I described some
>> of the probable consequences, without admitting that at one time or
>> another I had suffered them all.  His mother agreed with me!  And he
>> of
>> course ignored us both.
>>
>>    But, he did report that indeed, the classes he had wanted were with
>> one exception filled, and the classes he was able to get were all at
>> inconvenient times.  And it was possible that I and been right, that
>> some of these problems could have been avoided if he had registered
>> earlier.
>>
>>    But, that was last week.  It was temporary.  I have returned to my
>> natural state as a candidate for a full body condom.
>>
>> -jc
>>
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Pamela S. Follett wrote:
>>
>>> Was it something suitable for framing (or framing him with)?
>>>
>>> - Pam
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Callan" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 09:12
>>> Subject: Re: [BP] Dying keyboard
>>>
>>>
>>>   Yesterday, he reluctantly informed me that I had
>>>> been correct about something.  I'm was just so darned happy to hear
>>>> that!
>>>>
>>>> -jc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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