Where I Live Day? Also D-d gets good news.

[curiouswombat]

frimfram posted some lovely pictures of Cambridge a couple of days ago as an adjunct to her Hallowe'en story 'Reality Ends at the Checkpoint' (which if you've not read - go read!). She and I came up with the idea that a Live Journal 'Where I Live Day' would be cool - participants to put some pictures up of where they live (obviously!) on a certain day, so we all get a better idea of some of the rest of the world - not just the 'tourist brochure' stuff, but the real stuff. I know quite a few people already have put some pictures up that are what we were talking about - but - hey! you can recycle them if you don't want to do any new ones!

What do you all think? Good idea? Would you be willing to join in? Frimfram is cleverer than me and has made a poll - here is a link to the Where I live Day poll - http://www.livejournal.com/users/frimfram/40476.html#cutid1

We wondered whether soon was good, or would northern spring be better?

(There are two other questions as well - one is for AtS fans, and the other is related to a discussion about her default icon - is it a chicken or a tooth? Which is more interesting than 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?'!)

And in family news - Daughter-dear has just checked the UCAS website, and has discovered that she has her first offer of a university place - already!! It is from Glasgow, on 3Bs - which is cool, she only applied to places she would really like to go to, so even if no-one else offers a place she would still be happy with this one. So she has had the weight of waiting to see if anyone wants her lifted!

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The British system means that they apply through a central organization to 6 universities, and so we have 5 more to hear from yet and then she has to decide, if she has more than one of them offering her a place, which she wants to go to. She can keep one more as back-up, so she might not actually go to Glasgow, but at least she knows that someone wants her!

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds a bit more organized than the American system, no huge surprise there. But anyway, I'm sure they'll all want her!
Sadly, my oldest daughter elected not to go on to college "for now" -- which for all too many people, translates into "never". You'd think she'd have learned from my no-chance-of-advancement job.

ahem ... looks like I got signed out, huh? Oops...

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It sounds a bit more organized than the American system, no huge surprise there. But anyway, I'm sure they'll all want her!
Sadly, my oldest daughter elected not to go on to college "for now" -- which for all too many people, translates into "never". You'd think she'd have learned from my no-chance-of-advancement job.

Re: ahem ... looks like I got signed out, huh? Oops...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

'S all right - I guessed it was you! I know what you mean about the 'for now' thing. Whilst a lot of British students take a year out, Kat's school encourages them not to unless they have very clear plans for it, and get their uni applications in now anyway, requesting a year's defferment. This is because so many who could do well will otherwise 'get a job for a year', and still be in the same job ten years hence.

Here it is easy to get a reasonably paid job working in the financial sector, so it doesn't seem a good option to go from £12,000 a year back to a grant/loans/savings for three years - but ten years down the line the job will not be paying much more than '£12,000 plus inflation', and those who went to university are on £25,000. I think it is also very much a thing they should do for experience - for the joy of being there, they will have to work for a living and do some things that they find boring for long enough afterwards.

Learn now, more pay later

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. Take the time, learn everything you can even if it doesn't help you in a job later. If there are two things that have saved my sanity, it's fiction writing and learning to love learning just for the sake of learning ... which sounds like a roundabout sentance, but it ends up ... here.