'Til Death Do Part Our Hand Holding
I recently attended a university orientation day where many actual statistics were presented to parents while their kids participated in other exercises in preparation for the start of the year. When the expression, "risk-taking in a safe environment" was used, I excused myself. It wasn't just because the expression has no real meaning, it was because the university had accepted 300 more first year students than it had residence rooms for and was pretty much ignoring the fact that, while they were preaching platitudes to a seminar room full of parents, many of whom had secured residence spots for their candy-assed brats, other parents, like me, were scrambling to find our homeless streetkids a place to live. The administration was remarkable cool about the situation, mostly because it was completely clued out about it. So I took the opportunity while there to kick a few academic administrator asses (it's fun - university administrators are really out of shape from all that easy money earned while living above it all). Anyway, I highly recommend it - kicking university administrator ass. It relieves the stress of having paid a non-refundable tuition fee only to find out your child has no place to live while attending university in a new city - quite nicely. I think I'll go back and do it again this weekend and every weekend until my kid has a place to live in the fall. Maybe it'll actually work and somebody will learn a lesson.
