I had a hilarious conversation with a prospective student and their parent, in from out of country to tour the school. At one point the parent starting talking about how they were going to have to move back to our city if the student got into our program. I laughed and said "You know you can't go to class with them…

Ha! I refer to myself as the "crusher of dreams"! /high-five

Yup. You try telling that to helicopter parents though. I've been yelled at "I'M PAYING THEIR TUITION!!" - the look on the kids faces when we inform them "You do not have to allow them into this meeting, they can wait out here for you." (90% of them make the parents wait outside after that)

Yeah, its weird... and I've been in post-secondary education for going on 12 years now, and it gets worse and worse. 10 years ago I could count on one hand the number of times a parent showed up or called. These days its about 3-4 per week, more during the summer, and breaks. And I'm not even part of admissions or…

University administrator here, I got a call this morning from a Dad, whom I've already met with in person, because he wants to talk with me some more, about his son, because sure, thats my job I guess.

Ginger? You get out of here with your fancy spices! You'll use mace and you'll like it! ;)

Ok.

The English (fine, "europeans") brought their chestnut trees with them to north america (and the chestnut blight). They eat the hot mushy spheres too!

Its usually "take this thing, boil it, serve with ale and cream". :)

I made a pease pudding just this Sunday to go with my boiled supper! (not even joking!)

I couldn't tell you how many candy canes I've eaten today...

They are terrible. English traditional food is all about making food out of non-food items.

Red currants! Not nightshade!

We need a follow up documentary!

Oh man, can we please please talk about the mummy in the closet dating back to the late 60's that was found after Dorian's death in 1993? PLEASE!

Yup. When my Mom caught a "cold" in the middle of chemo we had to go to the ER in the middle of the night and they put her in isolation immediately, and then even the nurses would only go in with gloves and masks. Compromised immune systems are terrifying and I hope no one has go to through it.

Are you a canuck? Cuz I am and I have had the weirdest phone calls with 911 while on my cell phone! They not only don't know where you are but they will argue with you about where they think you are completely ignoring the address you are giving them!

Ok, good! You are nominated our landline representative for all future polls!

You now have the responsibility of representing all us cellphone only havers in all polls ever, are you ready for this responsibility?

This.