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Monday June 21, 2004

Tempus Fugit

We took my daughter Lizzie up to UNH today, for Freshman Orientation. On the ride up, I couldn't help but think back to our first ride with her, home from the hospital a couple of days after she was born. I had to give blood at the hospital blood bank to ransom my car from the parking lot. (You gave blood, you got a free pass.) All you dad-drivers will remember this one: going about 15 MPH even on the freeway, and feeling every bump in the road as if your spine was made of glass. And then all those rides with her plugged into the car seat in back. Time flies, doesn't it?

One of the speakers today, in the parents' session, had a funny story about his time in college. He's sitting in the back of some huge freshman survey class, and the professor, who fancies himself the next Professor Kingsfield (from The Paper Chase), decides to set the tone for the semester by announcing to his students, "If there are any dumbbells in this class, please stand up." He's taken aback when one young woman in the front row gets to her feet. "Are you a dumbell, Miss?", he asks. "No sir," she replies, "I am not. But I felt bad for you standing up there all by yourself."

Well, maybe you had to be there. :)

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