Talk this Mom down

[copzgirl1171]

Babycopz has been electronically MIA pretty much since we took her on Thursday.

They told us all this in orientation..."they will be busy, have low expectations of them contacting you" blah blah blah.

She is out buying hookers and blow isn't she ya'll?

[Deleted]

bahahaha.

shes out meeting people! its good, i swear.

[copzgirl1171]

JJJJJJJEEEPERS LHC, read the damn title.

[mominatrix]

She's doing what she's supposed to be doing right now - - meeting people IRL and getting acclimated to a new life.

She's FINE.

She's doing what she's supposed to be doing. She's acting in an age-appropriate way.

She'll be in touch when she has the time to fill you in on what's up. And it will be a lot of fun stuff. And she won't tell you everything.

She's fine.

[pixy0stix]

Viva la sexual revolution!

[Deleted]

:-) This is a good sign! She is having a blast, busy meeting friends, exploring her new digs and getting settled.

If she was having a hard time, she would have called you, you know that. She loves her mama.

Shoot her a fun email filling her in on what's going on at home, and sit tight knowing that she is A-OK.

[teflep]

She is spreading her wings, meeting people, getting ready for classes, etc.

[copzgirl1171]

She had to buy a clicker, that was my last correspondence with her

*rocks in rocker*

back in my day we used our hands to answer a question in classes.

[pugz]

a...clicker? like, for a dog??

[mominatrix]

Aug 21, 2012 11:41:03 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

She had to buy a clicker, that was my last correspondence with her

*rocks in rocker*

back in my day we used our hands to answer a question in classes.

A clicker.
What's that?

*pulls up rocker next to copz, yells 'get off my lawn!' at other Nesties*

[Deleted]

what is a clicker?

[eclaires]

A clicker? WTH?

Anyway, I am sure she is fine. I think at this point limited contact is good news, because it means she's adjusting and having fun vs. being on the phone homesick, kwim?

I know I avoided calling my parents at times when I was first at school because it was hard to not be sad and feel like I was missing them/missing out (my whole family lives in the same area and they spend a lot of time together).

[copzgirl1171]

OMG!! You all just made my day!!! Copzson only knew because they were coming in as he was leaving grad school

www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/09/clickers_encourage_class_parti.html

[OscarQ]

Ditto PP with the parent who sent the cops to find her. My parents did this with my younger sister. Luckily it was just my uncle who was a campus cop but still...

She's fine and she'll be in touch soon to tell you some of the awesome things she's been doing.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Copz, when I went off to school, I couldn't talk to my mom. Like COULDN'T. Getting emails from her or hearing her voice made me so homesick I couldn't even deal with it. So, just saying! It doesn't necessarily mean hookers and blow.

[rugbywife]

It wasn't during frosh week but the year of the ice storm was my first year of university. At some point during the 1st week of January my parents called my dorm room (where I rarely was) and asked how I was. I was confused, said I was fine, classes had just started back up, yada yada yada...finally they say: "Well, we're fine too"...I was like, okay? They reply..."We haven't had power in about 6 days but they say it should be back on tomorrow (They lived in Montreal, I lived in Toronto). I had no idea about the ice storm, no idea that huge sections of Quebec had had no power for almost a week. I lived in this bubble that was university.

She is fine. She is happily in her bubble, she will emerge eventually.

[laurenpetro]

never heard of a clicker. then again, my graduating theatre class had 4 people in it.

i don't think i called my parents the first week and i wasn't drinking. much.

[charminglife]

She's totally fine - enjoying her freedom, meeting people, and doing what she should be doing.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

The clickers are kinda cool. You can aggregate everyone's answers and display the distribution for class. They were only used in huge science lectures when I was in college.

[wawa]

Aug 21, 2012 11:38:17 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

She's doing what she's supposed to be doing right now - - meeting people IRL and getting acclimated to a new life.

She's FINE.

She's doing what she's supposed to be doing. She's acting in an age-appropriate way.

She'll be in touch when she has the time to fill you in on what's up. And it will be a lot of fun stuff. And she won't tell you everything.

She's fine.

this exactly.

My mom still likes to tell the story of how she dropped me off at college and didn't hear from me for almost a week. And then one day I called her and said, "hey mom. totally random question, but my friends and I were stumped and I figured you'd know the answer. What is the rest of the limerick that starts "there once was man from nantucket?"

Because during the first week of college things it honestly did not occur to me to check in amid the whirlwind of orientation activities until I needed to know the rest of a dirty limerick.

(She also thought it was hilarious that we'd all made it to the age of 18-19 knowing the first line to a very dirty limerick, but never hearing the rest of it.)

[copzgirl1171]

Lyss, that makes sense and I hope that isn't the case with her, because I am gonna look mighty stupid running around the campus of OSU trying to find my baby in need

It honestly helps to have copzson home for a couple of weeks because he keeps saying "remember Mom, I didn't do this or that and you kept it together"

[MrsDL]

Aug 21, 2012 11:36:09 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

She is in all likelihood drunk.

LOL - I think I made some friends and we found a keg party within two hours of my parents leaving, and I wasn't a partier in HS.

[pixy0stix]

Now I want to go to school just so I can take a class with a clicker.

[Deleted]

She is perfectly fine! It's only been a few days, and she is enjoying her freedom - she's sleeping in (omg I loved sleeping at college haha), she's eating lunch with new friends, she's getting lost on her way to English 101, and so on and so forth.

I didn't call my mom a lot those first few weeks mainly bc there was SO much to talk about and I didn't necessarily feel like having to explain in detail who I was hanging out, my classes, etc. There was so much to say that I just didnt say anything for a while haha.

[osulori]

Sweetie, she's fine. Welcome Week is nuts...I remember barely being home that first week, and I didn't even live on campus. There is SO much going on all over campus, you barely know what time it is let alone remember to call/text your parents. She's fine, I promise.

I'd say drive out this way tonight for some dog snuggles and a glass of wine to relax, but I woke up this morning with something that looks suspiciously like pink eye so you don't want to get near me right now

[Deleted]

Registration, ice cream socials, late night pizza--she's fine. How exciting!

Breathe, mama.

[osulori]

Aug 21, 2012 11:57:06 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

man, i would trade anything to go back to one day in high school or college with absolutely no responsibility and keggers.

OMG yes. I miss college. And keggers.

[copzgirl1171]

Lori, I may be your way later in the week

I think it will help when I finally don't think of all the every day things I do as things "we" did. She was my shopping, running/walking, nutritional, reading buddy. I mean she was basically an only child for 10 years...KWIM?

I started out on a run last night and put my earphones in (which I didn't do with she was with me) and started crying at the very first song played, so I ended up walking 2.5 and then walking the dog 1.75

[hopecounts]

I didn't call my parents for the first week and I wasn't drinking, I was just busy with orientation and sorority rush and didn't have time. I finally called them Bid Day to let them know which Sorority I was joining and that was a week after they dropped me off.
I was busy and having fun getting acclimated to college and wrapped up in my new world.

She's fine and having fun!

[auntnettie]

In a couple of years this will be me! I still have 3 years of high school to go but I worry about this already.

I'm sure she is fine but I do understand how you feel.