UofSC has beaten out PennState. Now Zoë has to decide if she wants to accept her Capstone invitation. She was dead set on not doing any honors programs in college, but UofSC's Capstone actually looks more social/less academic, and it has some opportunities I think she'd really enjoy (specifically travel). I'm working really hard at keeping my ( Read more... )

And Zoë's college results are in, mostly. She got in everywhere but was deferred to the regular round of admission for UMich. It means she doesn't know where she's going yet, since she likes Michigan. Her next choice is now flip flopping between Univ South Carolina and Penn State. I prefer South Carolina, because they gave her scads of merit money ( Read more... )

With everyone home all the time, it's so hard to get quiet. We normally have a quiet home, but I really, really need a lot of space and silence and it's hard to get these days. I do a lot of getting up early and taking advantage of what peace there is with everyone else sleeping. That makes it sound like we have hordes here, "everyone," instead of ( Read more... )

I'm going to be talking about college applications, so if you're parenting through them and don't want to read, abort abort! I'm specifically not talking about details on Facebook because life is stressful enough for everyone and I'm not going to add to anyone's stress. Once things are decided, I'm sure I'll happily announce where Zoë's going. ( Read more... )

It's almost time for Zoë to start school, her senior year. She's not as excited about it as she would be in a normal world, because her school has adjusted a lot of the pomp and circumstance to make it safer ( Read more... )

When I was young, you had to sort of kind of guess which colleges might accept you, because there wasn't the same volume of information available. And you decided which colleges you wanted to apply to based on the brochures they sent, if, like me, you were going to an out of state college (we moved my senior year in HS, in-state wasn't going to be ( Read more... )

For the first time since starting HS, Zoë was able to get all the classes she wanted ( Read more... )

In Maryland, the earliest you can get your learners permit for driving is 15 years 9 mos. For Zoë, that was yesterday. She has been determined to get hers exactly on that date for a while now. We pointed out that her spring break trip through Europe didn't get her home until the 24th, and a jet-lagged, no sleep kid is not necessarily going to do ( Read more... )

Zoë's submitted her schedule. Barring conflicts, next year she's taking ( Read more... )

For the first time in a few years, I updated my resume and realized I'd found myself in more of an architecting/strategy position than a developer one. I confirmed that's what my direct manager is looking for, and immediately started looking for other positions. I'm not terribly interested in architecting and strategy work, so if that's my future ( Read more... )