Out of the Closet
In the words of the late Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles -
Is it twue how zey say zat you people are … gifted?
(Lights go out, sound of zipper opening)
Oh. It’s twue. It’s twue. It’s twue. It’s twue!
And so yes, it’s twue, as Chuck Newton wrote, that I am ” … a mom, a lawyer, with teenagers, stuck at home.”
And it’s twue that I am betwixt and between, as my late father would say, on the issue of going back to practicing law. With a senior and junior in high school, I better figure out some way to fill the space between college parent weekends.
I do have the first few months of my son’s freshman year covered. It’ll take that long for the big suck machine, aka my wet/dry vac, to inhale the dearth of hair in his bathroom and for me to power wash his shower walls and under the toilet rim.
Still, there will come a time when even the melodic roar of my wet/dry vac will no longer cut it for me.
The question is, now that I’m out of the closet, do I have what it takes to dust off the license and launch?
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:03 am
The way i look at it, if you survive teenagers with at least some of your bank account and most of your sanity still in tact, it’s all down hill from there.
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:29 am
If $1 and change plus some of my sanity count, then I’m getting out my roller blades.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:17 am
The problem is not so much the extra time, although I have got to admit that my big house is now empty most of the time now (and we are thinking about downsizing), it is the mal-tuition you suffer from. The extra income is to give to them. Now with three kids in college (and not wanting to go into debt), the University of Houston says it is going to increase tuition and fees 12.5% this fall. This is on top of 14% or so last fall. We have a balanced budget state that relies on projection. When George Bush was governor the mispredicted by a tad shy of $9 billion for his last two years in office. (I have to figure at this point that he gets nothing right). After he left they had to cover this tap and the future deficit. So they took the $9 billion away from the public colleges and university and “deregulated” tuition. The legislature then acted shocked that tuition and fees would rise so dramatically so the university system could fill the $9 billion hole. And, you thought diapers were expensive.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
You are so right, Chuck. It is the mal-tuition. Here in Illinois, the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana wanted $19,000 for tuition, room and board for 2006 - 2007. Then they cavalierly tell you to “add approximately” another $3,700 for virtually all science, engineering and business majors.
And you mean Georgie has been getting it wrong since Texas? Didn’t his daddy learn him nothin’?
April 10th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Shit. Now I’m really scared. I’m in the toddler years and thought if I could get them both out of diapers, my life would get easier. Don’t tell me anything more :)
April 10th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Don’t look, Therese!