Want to see a grown woman bang her head into the table?

[camwyn]

Come home from karate class on a night when she got up at 6 AM to work on her paper to qualify for the PhD. program - and didn't leave the house until 1 PM because her literature review took so much time and extra effort. Wait for your father to say you have good news about school. Cheerfully announce that your advisor, the head of your department, told you that you don't have to do a thesis. Then, when she says that she's still got to do X, Y, and Z on her own papers, tell her you're doing a term paper on reengineering Dr. Evil's hiring process so fewer employees get dropped into the fiery lava - and when she asks if you're seriously doing that and the professor let you get away with it, tell her you're getting an A so far.

My poor mom. I ought to bake her something.

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[cadhla.livejournal.com]

Honey? That was really, really unkind of you. Remember, the goal this year is not to convince your parents that space aliens came down and sucked their real baby into a giant vacuum hose when you were eight years old. Not.

Besides, if you break your mom, I'm never gonna be able to lure you out here.

[camwyn]

Well, they already know about the Business Communications course where I fired the Pointy-Haired Boss and did the Dr. Doom proposal, so this isn't that much of a surprise... but the fact that I have only one semester left is a lovely thought for them as well as myself. 'cos once I'm done with the degree, it means I'm moving out.

I will entertain any location within the United States save for Texas as a possible living area - and even Texas might get a second look so long as it's a really big city - as long as I can get a Red Cross job that's less than two hours' drive from where I will be living, with a salary big enough to pay for room and board. If your local Red Cross chapter has IT needs, lemme know. Barring God alone knows what, my semester ends in May. I WILL have to be in NJ come early July, 'cos that's when my sister's getting married, but...

[mephron]

I think your mother was baked enough from that bit....