Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by tmdiva
The key is the family history bit. If you don't have a family history of food allergies, you can be a little more relaxed about some of this stuff.

Sheesh....I've been eating a lot of these prohibited foods, and the Brazenette seems to thrive so I refuse to worry about it. Of course, I let here eat cake at a birthday party this weekend, so I don't count on winning any Healthy-Eating-Mommy-of-the-Year Awards...

Originally posted by tmdiva As for breastfeeding, I nursed Magnus until 15 1/2 months and never had any feel-me-up embarrassing moments. At 12 months, he was only nursing morning, nap and evening and once or twice at night. We eliminated one at a time, and voila! he was weaned, relatively painlessly.
..............

Sheesh again. At 6 months, the Brazenette nurses less than that. Morning, when I get home, bedtime, and rarely but ocaissionally once at night. I guess I am truly blessed...


Bn'(now she'll be up 8 times tonight just to prove me wrong)B

[Seven of Nine]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
.... the Bitch immediately said "OK, DebtSlave and Mr. Slave, you have to come too!" Well, the friend gave us that "god dammit! Don't you dare!" look, but the Mr. and I looked at each other and simultaneously thought "dude, you are so going to need us to get your back with this Bitch...
BR(the story seemed entertaining and vaguely applicable)C

Er, Bad_Rich_Chic, when did you cease to be DebtSlave?
That seems like quite an amazing transformation. What did you do, hit the lottery?

The one and only, and still sockless,

Seven

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Fugee
Now for the question, how can she explain to an admissions committee that she is a lot smarter than her GPA would indicate? High ACT or SAT scores would help but, speaking of procrastination, she hasn't taken them yet and hasn't cracked the prep books I gave her. Does it make sense for her to go to a junior college (one more academically challenging than their community college) for a year or two so she'll presumably have a better track record than she has right now?

The first thing you might want to do is have her tested for some form of a learning disability. 1. If she has one it would go a long way to explaining her history. 2. I didn't have this pattern in high school, but I did have it in college, and it turned out a severe learning disability was the reason. I only wish I had known so before law school because it would have helped me with point 3. which is, you can use the good grades to show her potential, explain away the bad grades with the learning disability and convince a good college to accept her while 4. she works on overcoming whatever it is that causes her to have study problems, thus not doing the same thing in college she did in highschool.

Of course, she could also just be lazy, which suggests she needs some time to mature. In that case I'd send her off to the community college to grow up a bit, or have her take a year off and just work.

Normally there is a reason when a smart kid has a lot of trouble. It is possible to explain away grade problems, but you need to figure out what the reason is first, or you won't be able to explain it.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Fugee
Apologies for bringing in boring family stuff. Feel free to skip to the next sex question.

<snipped to not annoy people with reposting issues>

First, see if that grade in the Jr. year can be cleared up so there's no explaining to do there. My understanding is that the junior year is where it matters the most.

Is there an explanation for the sophmore year? Something going on at home or at school that could demonstrate that she otherwise would have made the grades but she was distracted, etc.

Also, some extracurriculars definitely help.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Fugee
Apologies for bringing in boring family stuff. Feel free to skip to the next sex question.

She could take some time off between HS and college, travel, join AmeriCorps, join the Army, write a novel, anything...and then in 2 years, apply to colleges and write essays about how young and unfocused she was in HS, but how she's grown and matured so much from doing whatever she's been doing for the past two years, and now knows she'll be successful as a student because she is so much more fundamentally mature...

It's bullshit, I know, but it got me into law school...

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Fugee


Apparently during her sophomore year she failed 3 classes but got all As in the rest and thus had a GPA high enough to make National Honor Society.

At least she didn't get denied National Honor Society b/c too many teachers opposed it (even though grades were well above the cut-off).

I probably should not have thrown that book.

Or mooned the gym class.


Edited to add that I laughed and laughed and laughed at all of the poor souls who got in and subsequently complained nonstop about the excessive amount of community service required!

[ltl/fb]

But because of your status as a moderator/admin, I cannot put you on ignore. So any promises I might have made about leaving you alone are out the window until (a) you stop being a moderator/admin and I can put you on ignore or (b) someone changes that dumbass rule and I can put you on ignore.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Fugee
I need your thoughts on how to advise the oldest Fugee niece on college strategies.

IMHO, based on not entirely dissimilar personal experience:

You are correct that the primary goal should be to ensure that she ultimately takes her BA from the best school possible. Clearly, this girl must get herself motivated to do this, because her parents aren't doing the neurotic pushing that the kids she is competing against are getting. You should not call her parents idiots (let me do that: "idiots!"), but letting her know that some people have different priorities and think it is important to have broader options in their lives, might be advisable.

She needs to do the SAT (and ACT, depending on where she is applying), and she needs to do well, really well. I had middling grades for the schools I was applying to, and I had interviewers look at my grades and look at my test scores and say "you had a lot of fun in high school." Being labled a slacker sucked, but without that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, in the universe that will make an admissions reviewer believe she is any brighter than her grades would imply [edited to add: other than a late-diagnosed learning disability - nice catch Leag]. Fortunately, the SAT is biased towards really smart slackers.

Re: the missing grade, she needs to get that fixed pronto. With that expunged, she has a shot at convincing someone that the sophomore F thing was an isolated incident and she is a "reformed sinner" who has learned the error of her slacker ways. (An essay that doesn't state but illustrates that would be helpful.) If impossible, she needs to address that Jr. year F up front and convincingly - i.e.: she had better have a goddamn good reason why the project wasn't in on time and a letter from the teacher assuring that the grade is, really, not reflective of her performance in the class.

Re: starting out at a weaker school and transferring up, this can work. The time between HS and the transfer, combined with absolutely superb grades at the college, will take the curse off of the iffy HS performance. It will not work from a community college, though. Ideally, she should try to get into the best 4-year state school she can get her butt into, and transfer from there. (i) Good grades at community college count for nothing, and (ii) if it is a state school she can plead $$/not ready to venture far and wide yet, instead of "no one wanted to accept me first time around so I am hoping to fool you guys now." If she goes this route, she should NOT, under any circumstances, apply out of HS to any school to which she may want to apply to as a transfer. They keep the applications, and they will almost surely not take her if they rejected her once. However, after a year or so of college, she will have the experience to be relaxed and confident in the transfer application process - and that can make all the difference.

BR(blew off HS, got rejected by my top 4 schools out of HS, got in everywhere I applied as a transfer)C

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Of course, she could also just be lazy, which suggests she needs some time to mature. In that case I'd send her off to the community college to grow up a bit, or have her take a year off and just work.

I second the year-off idea. If she screws around at a community-college, that's not necessarily going to help things.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
But because of your status as a moderator/admin, I cannot put you on ignore. So any promises I might have made about leaving you alone are out the window until (a) you stop being a moderator/admin and I can put you on ignore or (b) someone changes that dumbass rule and I can put you on ignore.

Just click really fast past his posts and it will be as if he is on ignore.

Even(cannot be ignored)Odds

[idle acts]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Is there something you want to tell us about your place of employ?

Other than that people are paranoid, no. Besides, such things are not really FB fodder.

[Anttwat]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Um, I may be wrong but I think the moniker is my fault and not anything to do with the coochies of ants. You see, one day leagl was talking about some protests and alternative lifestyles and someone said "blah blah blah NTTAWWT." Well, I wondered how one said "NTTAWWT" if one were yelling it at a protest and one of the sounds I thought of was "anttwat."

Fuck you very much for spoiling the silly little secret pleasure I was feeling over the fact that there was apparently one thing Ihave said on the FB that meant something to someone -- or was at least annoying enough to stick in em's head.

I knew someone would come through for me.
How can a sock bitch about something that even if you only read the board once a week, you would see anttwat somewhere. Or at least do a damn search.
Thanks Thrasher - I enjoy being your sock.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Anttwat
I knew someone would come through for me.
How can a sock bitch about something that even if you only read the board once a week, you would see anttwat somewhere. Or at least do a damn search.
Thanks Thrasher - I enjoy being your sock.

What was wrong with being wwld?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
A propos of nothing, have any of the women on the FB tried the new birth-control pill that gives you your period four times a month?

This is a good question. Actually I had some questions about this myself - and I know this wasn't the point - it's that PMS thing you were trying to raise.

I thought that it was important, in order to prevent either cervical or ovarian cancer, to have regular periods. As a youth I had very irregular "cycles" which really sucks when you think, you know, you might be, you know, but whew when you actually find out that you're not, you know.
But I'm sure that the gyno said something to the effect that I would be a candidate for cervical or ovarian cancer if I didn't do the bcp thing to regulate the cycles.
So if you only have 4 cycles/year, doesn't that increase the risk of some sort of cancer and why would anyone want to do that?
Sorry Burg, I guess it's the amish in me that wants to know.

[leagleaze]

It says some women stop having their periods altogether.

I can't imagine that is a good thing in the long run. But that isn't based on any scientific viewpoint, it just seems to me screwing with the human body that much can't be good. Everyone thought hormone therapy was a great thing and look where we are now.

http://www.contraceptiveinjection.co...th-control.htm

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/979259/posts

http://www.msnbc.com/news/949294.asp


I did learn today though that it is possible for menstrual cramps to be worse than the contractions during labor. That's wild.

http://www.wdxcyber.com/ncontr14.htm


Edited to add another article that looks pretty good

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/livin...ods011030.html