snoburbia, the blog

senior scatter, v. 2011

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So the "Senior Scatter" came out this week. Everyone waits with bated breath for this list of the colleges to which kids from our local snoburbia high school are going this fall. It is our annual parental pat on the back for all those years of toil and tears and tutoring. Even if we don't have a senior. Or have one of the kids who toil.

Yes, it's a public school. And yes, I'm going to post this every year when it comes out, because, well, you private school parents can just suck it. Here are some of the schools the class of 2011 got into:

Harvard (3), Princeton, Columbia, Penn, University of Chicago (2), Haverford, Carnegie Mellon (3), UC Berkeley, Vassar, Hamilton, West Point, Tufts (2), Tulane (3), Emory (2), Pitzer, UVA (3), Cornell (2), Brown, Wake Forest (2), Barnard, UNC Chapel Hill (2), Edinburgh (3), Pratt Institute (2), William and Mary, University of Michigan (4), Carleton, NYU (3), Wellesley, Northwestern (2), Wesleyan, University of Maryland College Park (44), Oberlin, Georgia Tech, Eastman School of Music, Bard, Mount Holyoke, Kenyon, Denison, RISD, UMBC (8), Penn State (8), Dickinson, Macalester, St. Mary's of Maryland, and many others.

Plus: Marines (3),  Empire Beauty School (1), and CIA (um, seriously?).

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activist hair

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You may notice (please?) that I haven't been posting much lately. That is because I am a civic activist, and we have had two major public hearings in the last few weeks on two issues.

So I've noticed that now I am getting activist hair. (Have I been "activisting?" "activizing?" "civic-ing?" Don't know, but whatever it is has been sucking up all my time that could have been spent in the hairstylist's chair.) This unkempt mop may give me street cred, though. I mentioned this to a fellow civic activist before we testified at a public hearing, and she said, "Yeah, I went to my hairstylist today, and I asked her not to blow my hair out because I didn't want to look too 'Chevy Chase.'"*

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* She is from Chevy Chase.

upscale yard sale

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Thanks to reader Danny R., who sent this from his Blackberry. (Really, Danny - no iPhone?)