Breathless

[bill_schubert]

OMG, Harry was here!!!

So glad I live to the northwest of Austin. On the southeast is the airport, on the southwest is where all the pricey venues for music and such are located, on the east is Tesla and Circuit of the Americas. The latter is what created this breathless headline along with traffic that locked up that entire side of Austin for the weekend.

I'd really hate to move but successive summers of 110+ days and glitterati magnets like COTA were it to be in our area would do it. Make me miss the back woods of Maine in my college years.

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[beautiful_dreamer_02]

Maine. Bowdoin?
Or...is my geography, off?

[bill_schubert]

You're right, but I went to Nasson College, since closed. Southern Maine. Also University of New Hampshire in sumner.

[beautiful_dreamer_02]

Oh; I was sure Bowdoin is in Maine. At this late stage of my life a long-standing friendly acquaintance of mine had suggested I should have gone to Bowdoin which I find very complimentary, but I doubt I'd have been able to cut it; in the first place, I doubt I'd have been accepted.
You strike me as having the the smarts to make it into Bowdoin. Whether you'd have loved it, I don't try to say---of course.

I find it distressing when colleges and universities have to close.

University of New Hampshire in the summer. Is it OK to ask if UNH was part of an accelerated program to get to graduation earlier than on the standard schedule? (One high school classmate of mine attended her uni straight through so she could finish up in two and a half calendar years, which saved a bundle on dorm and dining hall fees, alone.)

[bill_schubert]

I was in the summer theater there for a couple of years. I graduated in the standard four years. With a humanities degree. Useless but for the fact that the prime requirement for becoming a Naval Officer was a four year degree and I had that.

[beautiful_dreamer_02]

Beautiful country, from what I understand.


I continue to be impressed by the ever-growing number of people who get their degrees in X, Y, or Z and wind up making their careers in A, B, or C. A lot of biology majors seem to gravitate toward IT. Interesting.

Did you enjoy Nasson?

[bill_schubert]

Yeah. I was a horrible student only managing to graduate by focusing on theater and performance.
But the campus was really nice, the people were just good people and I could walk out the back of the dorm and into wild forest. Blizzards created a huge playground and we were all invincible. Too many drugs but it was the 70's and they were safer. And the music from the first half of that decade vibrated through every building and was central to our lives.
Mostly a place of magic.

I think there were classes too.

[beautiful_dreamer_02]

Mmphphph! "I think there were classes too."

Man. I attended an urban university and we were sure there were classes. Much different collective "personality" of that school compared to many.
Music was (for me) largely my roommate's musical sound tracks which played while she was in the room; at one point I knew every word to every part of every song in Funny Girl, Man of La Mancha, Hair, and close to a score of others I believe I've blocked from my memory by now.
I was glad to be there, had very much wanted to be, but I do rather envy you your experience and especially that setting!

Some students set the "acceptable" bar very high, such as anything less than straight A's being as dismal as straight F's and consider a 2.9 GPA to be the mark of a "horrible student."

"Digressing" to the topic of your entry, I have no patience any more with the media fascination with Prince Harry and his wife and kids. Very glad Windsor-generated traffic snarls aren't an issue (yet) here in Ohio. Trusting they won't become, either.