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By: Roxanne
Date: 12/15/99 3:54:11 PM
# Replies: 47
It only took 16 years and 5 different schools, but I have finally completed my BBA in management!
Just in time for Y2K, I will be pounding the streets after New Year's in search of greener ($$) pastures. Does anyone have a magic marker and a piece of cardboard I can use?
Response #1
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/15/99 5:01:17 PM
roxanne! congratulations! color me confused though--i thought you were getting a librarian degree. well, no matter. *smooch*
Response #2
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/15/99 6:49:55 PM
Congrats!
Response #3
By: sooz
Date: 12/15/99 10:49:29 PM
WHOO HOO! Congrats on all the hard work, and the wonderfulness of finishing it. Many, many pats on da back.
Response #4
By: Ralf
Date: 12/16/99 7:48:25 AM
Scan your diploma and upload it!
Response #5
By: sooz
Date: 12/16/99 9:47:22 AM
And we can all edit the name in MS Paint and then we'll each have one.
Response #6
By: Roxanne
Date: 12/16/99 5:13:21 PM
SoS: Library school is on my "to do" list as well; but it's a master's program, so I had to get the under-grad degree first. Ah, I miss the good old days of apprentice-ship!
All: Thanks for the congrats! I'll be sure to remember you all when I get my first paycheck from the big high paying job that will come with the diploma! I have been sitting by the phone for two days now, waiting for those job offer calls. Maybe I should call the phone company and make sure the line is working properly...
Response #7
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/16/99 6:27:00 PM
Congradulations and much luck in the job hunt!
Response #8
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 12/17/99 5:11:20 AM
I knew I missed something the last time I scrolled by...
Congrats! Roxy Lady! Much success to ya, much success!
Response #9
By: sooz
Date: 12/17/99 2:39:26 PM
Just to set the record straight, in my own anal retentive way:
There's no "d" in congratulations.
There's no "a" in definitely.
Thank you. Now I feel superyor and errogant.
Response #10
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/17/99 4:00:19 PM
There is no "y" in superear and no "e" in arrowgint.
Response #11
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 12/17/99 8:57:35 PM
Wow! Cool! Congrats RoxyBabeTypePerson! :)
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #12
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/18/99 2:51:50 AM
'Congradulations' is a neologism which combines both 'congratulations' with 'graduation.' It is, specifically, a congratulations for graduation.
(When in doubt, invoke the gods of neologism.)
Response #13
By: sooz
Date: 12/18/99 11:20:22 PM
You guys rule. Damn, I wish I coulda gone snerding.
Response #14
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/18/00 9:39:04 PM
Oh yeah, kiss me, I'm 35. (As of 1/17/2000)
So am I now officially "middle aged" or just "thirty-something"?
Response #15
By: Ralf
Date: 1/19/00 8:12:02 AM
Thirty something.
"Middle-aged" happens when you start panicking that you only have 1/2 your life left.
Me, that'll happen Saturday, May 14, 3566.
Response #16
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/19/00 4:32:23 PM
Oh, hell. Do I *have* to be "thirty-something"? Can't I be something more fun sounding?
Response #17
By: Ralf
Date: 1/20/00 8:14:06 AM
You're right. We need a better label to attach to people such as ourselves: those who are in their thirties but are not the stereotyped whiney introspective luzirs they dramatized on that show-which-shall-remain-nameless from the early 90's.
Response #18
By: sooz
Date: 1/20/00 11:52:43 AM
We're so in-between. We're too young to be boomers, and too old to be X-ers. And too tired of labels, anyway. (I'm 36.)
Response #19
By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/20/00 9:29:33 PM
We are the "Nun" generation. We're nun of the above.
Okay, nowait, that's too corny. How about "Generation H"?
Response #20
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/21/00 1:09:18 PM
I like "Generation Icks" or "Hey! Where are you going with my pension plan!??"
Response #21
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/21/00 1:32:23 PM
Oh I like the "Nun" generation! "Nun" is the loneliest number!
What's Generation "H" stand for?
Sooz: Technically speaking, we *are* Generation X. Douglas Coupland, who wrote the book of that title and coined the phrase, was born in 1960. He was 25 years old when he wrote the book. But of course, the media grabbed hold of it a little late and plastered it on to a group that it didn't originally belong to.
Though I don't believe the old "20 years makes a generation" rule applies as well any more since technology is speeding up and the culture changes so swiftly now. I never did understand how the "Baby Boomers" could be from 1944 to *1964*. Statistically speaking, that was the time-span of the high birth-rate, but culturally speaking, there is a vast amount of difference!
Response #22
By: sooz
Date: 1/21/00 3:13:00 PM
Everyone and their dog (esp. in media) thinks they're the final authority on who gets what label for what generation. There's web sites that have contests (like that's gonna make a difference), etc.
I think I'll just be Susan.
Response #23
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/22/00 2:27:29 PM
No, you can't be Susan, *I'm* Susan.
Response #24
By: Ralf
Date: 1/24/00 11:38:34 AM
I was Susan before either of ya.
Response #25
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/24/00 8:47:08 PM
Yeh, but you were of the "pantless" tribe of Susan.
Response #26
By: sooz
Date: 1/24/00 10:03:05 PM
You people scare me.
Response #27
By: Ralf
Date: 1/25/00 7:34:58 AM
Yeah, but it's a FUN kinda scared, right?
Response #28
By: sooz
Date: 1/25/00 8:11:28 AM
(nervous glance)
Over the weekend, I was with a group of people that started talking about themselves and the group as being part of the Susan. The group was the "Susan" consciousness, and every time they said "Susan", they did their fingers in the air, making little quotation mark signs.
(/nervous glance)
Response #29
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/25/00 9:05:45 AM
We shall soon all worship The Susan.
Response #30
By: sooz
Date: 1/26/00 8:52:52 AM
Like on The Simpsons... The Leader.
Response #31
By: Ralf
Date: 1/26/00 10:48:00 AM
The paperwork's in... I have officially renamed Audrey as Jimmy.
Response #32
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/26/00 11:55:42 PM
Does this mean we all have to move to Sioux City?
Response #33
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/10/00 10:23:34 AM
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL OF THE 70'S IF:
You made baby chocolate cakes in your EZ Bake oven.
You washed them down with The Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.
You had that Fisher Price Doctor's kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
You owned a schwin bicycle with a floral banana seat and a basket.
Your roller skates had metal wheels.
You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island or (Jaws).
You had rubber boots for rainy days. Your shoes actually fit inside of the boots (with a little help from your mom and some plastic bags).
You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple shredded outfits.
You spent hours out back on your metal swing set with the trapeze.
You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.
You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad.
You tried to make sure that no boys would grab the comb out of your back pocket.
Your hairstyle was ever described as having "wings".
You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazard was your boyfriend. (Which Hardy Boy - Shawn or Parker?)
It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV.
Light as a feather, stiff as a board.
You completely wore-out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, and Flashdance soundtrack albums.
Shrinky-dinks!
You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape recorder up to the speaker.
You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy
Blume books. (Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.)
You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.
You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.
Garanimals
An episode of the Brady Bunch was new to you.
You wore anything with flags to celebrate the bicentennial.
Response #34
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/10/00 10:25:55 AM
My mother wouldn't let me have an E-Z Bake Oven (nor a Lite Brite) because they were electrical. I was so upset at the time.
But now I see there was probably a deeper reason. Baking a cupcake with a light bulb is a little twisted.
Response #35
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 2/10/00 11:36:34 AM
The only one I don't get is "Light as a feather, stiff as a board."
Of course, I was a little BOY in the 70s, but still...
Response #36
By: Da Sissop
Date: 2/10/00 12:01:02 PM
My hairstyle had "wings"... oh my GOD! *I* was a little girl of the 70's!!!11!!
Response #37
By: sooz
Date: 2/10/00 2:37:03 PM
Ahhhhhhhh. That was a fun walk down memory lane. I had an entire red white and blue, stars and stripe outfit for the bicentenniel, by golly.
I'll add that I was deeply in love with Johnny Gage (Randolph Mantooth), the handsome American Indian of "Emergency", and later, my high school boyfriend was an outspoke, tall, then, dark-haired piano player.
Then I grew up to marry a tall, then, dark-haired, Hispanic/American Indian piano player, and I worked in the ER, and now own a medical transcription service.
Weird, weird.
Response #38
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/10/00 4:57:42 PM
sooz: You own a medical transcription service? Can I ask how that works? I have always seen ads for medical transcriptionist schools and wondered just what the deal was...
Back on topic, I am a daughter of the 70's myself. I liked Hutch better than Starsky; John Schneider a helluvalot better than Tom Wopat; and Parker was my favorite Hardy boy.
I had metal roller skates (none of this in-line crap, thank you) and then when Roller Disco was all the rage, I got a pair of tennis shoe style roller skates!
The thing that has truly had a psychological effect on me throughout my adult life were the muscle cars of the late 60's through mid-70's. From the time I was five years old, I always wanted a 1968 Pontiac GTO...oh my...muscle cars and men with sideburns...for some reason, those two things imprinted on me and they have been a perpetual turn-on ever since...
(Sorry, probably a little more info than everyone needed, huh?)
Response #39
By: sooz
Date: 2/10/00 10:28:52 PM
No problem - I get that question a lot. E-mail me your snail mail address (sooz@texas.net) and I'll send you this nifty packet I put together... there's a booklet I wrote about how it works, how I started it, etc.; advertising samples; other boring stuff. I'd be happy to send ya one.
Response #40
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 2/11/00 1:21:35 AM
We are the Styx generation!
Generation Styx!
Response #41
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/11/00 11:21:46 AM
As long as we aren't "Generation Chex"..gag!
Response #42
By: rorschach
Date: 2/23/00 11:34:50 AM
sooz, why does that sound like one of those get rich quick schemes? you know.. send me 100 bucks and i'll send you this pamphlet on how to sucker people.....
sorry i know it wasn't meant that way it just triggered the memory...
Response #43
By: Ralf
Date: 2/24/00 8:14:02 AM
It *IS* like that, only legit. She's got the real deal here, if you're patient and serious about doing the transcription thing.
Response #44
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/24/00 9:33:02 AM
But I want to get rich N-O-O-O-W! Even if I have to marry a multi-millionaire on a FOX show to do it!
Response #45
By: Da Sissop
Date: 2/24/00 9:53:11 AM
Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Level Marketer?
Response #46
By: Ralf
Date: 2/24/00 6:33:29 PM
Crack cocaine has a good markup. Almost as good as Amway products.
Response #47
By: sooz
Date: 2/26/00 5:14:57 PM
No, Ror*, it's not like that at all.