I loved the Magic Pan in Atlanta! Their chicken divan crepes were awesome! I've been looking at crepe makers of late. Which ones do you love?

Flonase and my asthma inhalers. Any other tablet type knocks me completely out in 20 minutes.

Montana State has Sustainable Ag degrees with a few different options. It looks interesting and sustainiability is a big thing out here. Good luck to him!

Get Danica McKellar's books. She has a pre-algebra book called Kiss My Math and an algebra book called Hot X: Algebra Exposed. They are great and she explains things in ways I wish my school teachers has as it now makes sense and it never did before. They are geared more towards girls but they are funny and entertaining, which is a big help.

Mine seems okay on BBC's site. I did find this though: https://hola.org/premium.html?ref=tpopup_get_hola_premium According to that chart, the free version only unblocks for 4 hours a day. Anyone else run into this?

I love sesame oil (toasted). It even makes ramen taste good :)

I have a mini-crockpot that came with my large one and it melts chocolate like a dream.

I talked to my bank this morning. My husband used his card and it was on their compromised list and they have already sent a new card. I had them terminate his old one now instead of waiting till the new one arrived because we have college financial aid money arriving in the bank account in another week and so I didn't want to take any chances.

I hope he's feeling much better soon, Myra. My finals turned out fine and I was pleased. This coming semester I have three history courses, so I'll be buried in reading and papers!

They bring in dogs here too, to the courtyard area of the library. It's a blast!

So all of you taking classes, how did finals go? I am SO ready to flop down but it's been strange not having to study and having actual FREE time ;)

I just finished art history (college level) with Gardner Volume 1. It starts with prehistoric and goes through gothic. It's a big, impressive book but it includes a lot of history to go along with the gorgeous pictures. I found it pretty interesting reading.

If he is interested in WWII but uncertain about Hitler, why not a prominent figure from the German resistance instead? That would tie in to his interests but be a way around a person he's not completely comfortable with... more uplifting and off the beaten path. Someone above suggested Bonhoeffer, perhaps Schindler...there are many.

I am coming from the other view. If the department professors all do advising, I'd definitely talk to the one that appeals to you. They are there for more than the once a semester visit and could be invaluable in directing your research, even at the undergrad level or pointing you to something you might not have considered that turns out to be of interest. This is what I did and it's a great fit. We talked about the upcoming semester for a couple of minutes, since I already had it planned out, but the rest of the visit was about our mutual interests and I came away already with some ideas for possible directions for the research and capstone classes that will come down the road.

Thanks so much for all the info :)

I have this issue too, but I'm in Montana and it's bone dry here.

I grew up in rural deep south...and we never gave directions of the 'go north on X road, then turn east' variety. It was 'go down past Jim's house, take a left and go to that tree that got hit by lightning back when Fred and Martha still lived in that house and go right...."

Then what is where we are. NO medicaid expansion, no subsidy and no way to afford the premium, even on the lowest rate. BCBS does college student policies here at my college that for traditional age students aren't bad but at my age (50), it woudl cost me 3700 per semester, no summer coverage. That is nuts. I still don't know what the Supreme Court was thinking...the only thing that case did was toss the low income folks into the cracks that ACA was supposed to fix.

Here's what the Montana coop calculator gave me: Family of 5. If we made around 35000, we qualify for subsidies. Insurance for hubby and I (kids are covered now) would be 58/month. Since we make much less, it shows no subsidies at all, monthly cost $718. Since the Supreme Court made expanding Medicaid optional, Montana hasn't done it yet (there was a stupid voting snafu and now they are discussing special sessions and ballot initiatives), we don't qualify for Medicaid normally. We certainly can't afford this...it's more than our rent for on campus grad housing.

That is so true! The whole thing was kinda mind-blowing. I grew up in the 60's and 70's when heart surgery was a big complicated, dangerous thing. Just amazing...

My youngest daughter had a very large ASD - the upper chamber wall was basically not there. They did the repair in Salt Lake when she was 2 and it was pretty amazing. They fed a tube in through her leg vein, inserted an Amplatzer device (a small wire mesh thingy) that expands and locks in place to give the heart tissue a support for growing over. She came home with nothing but a little round bandaid on her thigh. Within a year, the tissue had completely covered the device and no issues.

It drives me nuts too. And one I never heard till I got to Montana is 'these ones'. Here, that is apparently the plural of 'this one'....instead of just saying these. Makes me want to stab things :)

For Japanese, there's a great channel on Youtube that covers a lot of Japanese language learning and she speaks a lot of Japanese in them, so good listening practice. Her channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbHWBh2s3nRzquz8rAoJk8Q

*wipes eyes* I laughed so much my sides hurt. :hurray:

All mine were what out pediatrician called 'spitters'. She said hers was too. Any physical ailment, even non-tummy related, they'd throw up. The older ones outgrew it, the youngest is still there but it's getting less prevalent.