work?!?! Pshwa

[zelashoe]

What to update you on? Hmmm

Comments

[sillyliddy]

"he will be starting his job of being a professor in some Nebraska college"

Do you know which one? I don't see my home state mentioned often, and I'm rather curious as to where he'll be going. We don't have that many colleges to chose from, though we do have several good ones.

[zelashoe]

Hey,
Sorry it took me so long to answer. I only just found out. It's called Nebraska Wesleyan University. It's in Lincoln. Do you think it's a good one?

[sillyliddy]

I don't know all that much about Wesleyan, but I do know it's a small school and better than some of the local public ones. It's not the best in the state, but it's pretty good. I know people who went there, and they're smart people so there must be something there to attract them. And they have a fairly nice campus. I went to a couple of competitions there in high school.

[ephemeralmoth]

what does "once removed" mean? I've always wondered that, but never asked...

Cousins

[narhasan]

Cousin: the most classificatory term; the children of aunts or uncles. Cousins may be further distinguished by degree of collaterality and generation. Two persons of the same generation who share a grandparent are "first cousins" (one degree of collaterality); if they share a great-grandparent they are "second cousins" (two degrees of collaterality) and so on. If the shared ancestor is the grandparent of one individual and the great-grandparent of the other, the individuals are said to be "first cousins once removed" (removed by one generation); if the shared ancestor is the grandparent of one individual and the great-great-grandparent of the other, the individuals are said to be "first cousins twice removed" (removed by two generations), and so on. Similarly, if the shared ancestor is the great-grandparent of one person and the great-great-grandparent of the other, the individuals are said to be "second cousins once removed."