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21899. thoughtful - 6/4/2007 5:13:04 PM Congrats to the graduates!
Good job on the dress, even better job on the diploma!
21900. wabbit - 6/4/2007 6:54:35 PM Congratulations to Arky and Betty!
Arky, in reading your Message # 21890 I was struck by how long some of us have been conversing. The initial fascination with web communities has faded and we have become casual as old friends do. We may not post here every day, but I know I check in almost every day just to see how folks are doing. I remember how miserable you were when you took the job at Bob's school. I remember when Betty was in Philadelphia, pre-weed, talking about First Friday gallery crawls (back in the Fray). The Mote will be eight years old this September. It doesn't seem possible. 21901. betty - 6/4/2007 7:30:17 PM I forgot there was life before Weed. 21902. arkymalarky - 6/5/2007 1:21:20 AM Wow, Wabbit. I can't believe it either. It's funny, I don't remember posting much about Bob's school, but I must have. It's just that the Mote's been such an integral part of my daily life for so many years I don't separate it out from rl. I loved the people and the kids there. It was just the job that sucked. ;-) Bob loves it there, but his setup is completely different. They still ask me every year or two if I'd like to come back, which makes me feel good. They assure me I will have it much easier this time if I do. The principal they had left a year after I did.
And another thing about the Mote that still very much applies, is that when I have a question no one around here can answer or an issue I need perspective or even help on, the first place I think to go is here, or to email Mote people and ask.
21903. arkymalarky - 6/5/2007 1:33:33 AM And it can be a great place to rant still, so I'd rant about the dolts who dumped me out of my last class, which is this summer term, because I hadn't paid tuition by their deadline which I had never received information on and figured was not a big deal since today was the first day of the class anyway. But I'm too exhausted to rant and I already dumped all my good stuff on the poor lady behind the computer terminal who was trying to explain why I had to find my advisor and re-register for a full class after I'd pre-registered without him online. I finally had to go across campus and his secretary did it for me, even though it's already full. I went back and paid, and the same lady was there and I got my revenge by dripping sweat all over my check.
Or I could rant about the meeting that was canceled that I drove 30 miles to go to because I didn't get the message on my home phone that it was canceled because I was huffing and puffing all over campus trying to get into that blasted class and Bob was outside all day doing yard work. 21904. judithathome - 6/5/2007 11:57:08 PM Arks, do you remember that that weekend is Father's Day? No biggie here but just thought I'd mention it.... 21905. arkymalarky - 6/6/2007 4:07:00 AM I thought about that. It's not a problem for me, if it's okay for y'all. If not, the next weekend is good too. I'll have to take the Sunday train back, which doesn't leave until around 2:30 (evidently add two or three hours to that, from my past experience ;->). 21906. Ulgine Barrows - 6/6/2007 7:45:16 AM 21884. judithathome - 6/1/2007 4:10:04 PM
Beautiful link. Thanks! 21907. Ulgine Barrows - 6/6/2007 8:43:17 AM larky.
'This summer I'm going to reclaim my health and my house'
I know you'll do well, larky.
My asperations are much the same, even though my now-husband snorted at them. 21908. robertjayb - 6/6/2007 3:45:19 PM D-Day... 21909. arkymalarky - 6/6/2007 3:49:09 PM now-husband? Is that the same one you've always had?
Mine just nags me about it, but I don't listen. He's all about the health since he's doing so well after being an overweight smoker for so many years. And I am proud of him. It's been around 3 years now and he's not only kept the weight off and kept away from the tobacco, but he exercises still and his numbers are all great. If I lost the amount of weight he did to get where he is I'd weigh 85 pounds. And he's not bad, just borders on preachy sometimes--he claims I call mentioning the subject "preachy."
I have lost five pounds from my highest weight, but it's a slow process, especially wrt the house. 21910. arkymalarky - 6/6/2007 4:00:54 PM (warning: scroll by if bored--I'm in an introspective mood)
When I first went to work where I am, it was only for a year about 25 years ago. I came back to stay a few years later. The first day we had meetings, etc, like schools do, and we were "on our own" for lunch. I asked where people went to eat, and some of the teachers said "we have a Dairy Queen up the road on the highway, and most of us are going there." I thought, wow, that's so cool, such a tiny town having a DQ. Glad I'm working here.
I should have ridden with someone, but it was right on the highway, they said, and I hadn't met anyone yet, and irl I'm not the type to instantly be sociable with people, so I drove myself. I went probably ten miles without a blasted Dairy Queen anywhere to be seen. I am a Texan, and I love Dairy Queen. I wouldn't have missed it.
After giving up and turning around I stopped at the first "food" place in the town that I saw and got a (really great) burger to go. I got back to the school with it and when I complained that I couldn't find their DQ, after some confusion and explaining on both sides, I found I'd gotten my hamburger there. They just called their walk-up burger place Dairy Queen.
It has another name now, but it has fantastic soft-serve ice cream and great dinners, burgers--everything. Judith and Keoni can vouch for it, and Judith can vouch for our other main restaurant too, because she's been to both. Last night I had to go to a major meeting, and I decided I wanted one of the RURAL DQ's ice cream cones, so I'd eaten a light snack and headed for the meeting, planning to get one when I got out. Well...about two hours later I was starving, so I left the meeting, got my cone, ate it--which took a while, because the "small" one was so tall--and got back only to be informed that the most important stuff happened while I was out. Oh well. They filled me in and I don't know what I'd have done anyway.
That was a great ice cream, though. 21911. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/6/2007 4:31:42 PM 
21912. judithathome - 6/6/2007 8:37:42 PM I am so craving the new waffle cone (pieces) and chocolate chip blizzard! 21913. judithathome - 6/6/2007 8:38:51 PM Arky, the weekend we talked about...next weekend...is fine for us.
We're orphans. 21914. arkymalarky - 6/6/2007 10:40:47 PM We pretty much are too. We're not nearly as "fun" as the other set of parents. 21915. Seamus - 6/7/2007 5:15:15 PM I apologise for the intrusion, but I've been feeling so very low. I was casting about for a touchstone--I thought of this place and yes, just reading and recalling you gentle folk here has lifted my spirits immeasurably. In case you ever wonder if your pixels mean anything, I can tell you that to this lost soul, they always will.
Again, I truly apologise for this. I simply needed to tell you that. 21916. judithathome - 6/7/2007 5:18:48 PM How nice to see you again, Seamus....stick around and we'll try and cheer you up. 21917. judithathome - 6/7/2007 5:21:40 PM Here's something fun to start with...you can try being your own Jackson Pollock
Squiggle around and click your mouse to change paint colors. 21918. Seamus - 6/7/2007 5:25:45 PM Hello judith. You are so very kind.
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