Sunday May 3, 2015

It has been awhile.

Hard to put down to words all the mixed emotions.  The college decision came out the way I had anticipated but hot hoped.  The KID is going to Cal.  Now what is wrong with that?  We think he would have loved a way smaller school.  Comeon, 35,000 plus?  27,000 in undergraduate?

Program	Undergraduate enrollment	Graduate enrollment
Bioengineering	360	204
CEE	299	384
EECS	1,274	555
Engineering Science	150	N/A
IEOR	130	123
Materials Science	99	96
Mechanical Engineering	613	349
Nuclear Engineering	59	74
Joint majors	118	N/A
Undeclared	111	N/A
Applied Science & Technology	N/A	39
Total enrollment	3,178	1,820

   

Well, I guess the total for 2014 is not too large, but the school is so HUGE.  We keep thinking that he would get his apps together in August, then September and then October, but no.  Many are written on the day it is due, and the rejections followed accordingly.  We love him to pieces, yet the procrastination is going to doom him.

He is in Irvine today to get the recertification for lifeguard.  That should have been done last month but he is unwilling to plan, so he planned two weeks ago, but had too many things to do so had to wait til today.  Friday night he attended the Marlborough School Prom with Janet Ho, and must have stayed up all night.  He 'Pleas the fifth" about drinking, and did not come home all night.  He slept all day yesterday and went to church.  DID NOT go to the last dance at school, as he had to finish the movies for Safe Swim.

The practice sale is going and going and going.  We have been working on this what feels like months.   We had the best month EVER in the history of practice just short of 100,000 on UCR.  So we want to renegotiate the price and collect a bit more of this money.  

Mom and dad are alive and well.  Lovely and Abby are coming in June.  Will got into USMAPS, when I thought it was West Point.  BUT he will be at West Point next year.  While some of his classmates will be 22, he will be one of the oldest at 26.  But the LONG gray line is the best that could happen to him.  

Natasha is in the hospital, again.  They will have to put in a G tube.  She cannot swallow anymore, and the cancer is all over.  I am so sad thinking that she might not last that long, hopefully til Ian graduates.  My oldest friend.  Better get on the way to visit her.  

My knee, oh what can I say.  KR is having ear surgery in a couple of weeks.  Mother's day is coming up, will my children remember and appreciate?  Tyler, what can I say.