I considered devoting a Trampoline musing posting to CC this afternoon, but I spent a few more minutes and decided that it was time to create a special thread in her honor.

This is the can-do girl that sold eggs on the farm. Self reliant and self sufficient.

She seems to remember and keep track of the obscure Liz songs and keeps us on our toes.

CC, sit back and accept the praise from your fellow LP Forum members.

You're special and we're glad you're here.

Aww...thanks

lurve you.

and condolences. losing someone you love is tough. lurve.

I am saddened by the passing of Coolchick274. She leaves behind a legacy of coolness, as evidenced by Coolchick275, who carries on in her living memory.

I originally joined this forum solely to get songs that I didn't have, and coolchick gave me them all. BUT her kindness was also part of the reason I decided to stay.

Bonjourno, coolchick.

How's life?

Tomorrow, Friday 2/9/2007 is coolchick275's birthday. I only happened to notice it because the default "time" on this forum must be GST and it is already Friday across the pond.

I would normally say something like happy birthday, but I know that she's probably wrapped up in her aunt's funeral and it's not likely to be a happy time.

Here's a thought. Even the passing of her aunt doesn't undo what they've shared together. That joy will last as long as it is remembered.

coolchick275, you're in my prayers. There will be other birthdays.

Thank you so much for everything you said. It really means a lot to me. I'm going to try to have a good birthday, because I know that the last thing that Dottie would want is for me to be sad. I know that she wants (I say 'wants' because I know that she is watching over me) me to be happy. The funeral was today. It wasn't as hard as I thought that it would be, but it was still very hard. My whole family was there for me and that helped a lot; they all know how much I love her. One of my aunts gave me a great big hug and was being so caring and my grandpa kept looking over at me to make sure I was all right. I could just tell by the way that my family was looking at me that they were concerned.

Can I tell you a little bit about her (of course I can, I mean, who's gonna stop me)? Dottie was born in 1910, which means she was 96 when she died. In November of 1986, her husband died and I was born in February of '87, thus began our relationship. She watched me everyday, from the time my mom went back to work until I was about 7 or 8. There was nothing she wouldn't do for me. One time I had to go to speech therapy at a different time than usual. I had to go during the time that Lassie was on (we watched Lassie everyday), so I told her to watch it for me and tell me what happened, and she did. She made me whatever I wanted for breakfast and lunch everyday (usually for lunch it was cold hot dogs and canned spaghetti, gross, I know). We liked to play grocery store in her pantry and make snowflakes out of her coffee filters. She would save her pennies for me until she had a great big jar and then she would give them to me. We would sit on her bed and she would brush my hair. All the memories that I have of the time that we spent together are happy ones. I have lots more memories, but I think that I'll stop there.

Coolchick, I am very sorry for you. Reading the above post actually made me sad, that kind of stuff doesn't usually get to me.

CC's last post was sad on some levels, because she no longer has her aunt actively in her life.

But she is putting it in the right perspective. We all go through continuing circle. The cool people that influence us when we're younger become a part of us and live on through us.

As we get older, we are influenced by the actions and things that happened to us when we are younger.

We have a chance to give back, to become the cool people that we have had the good fortune to have known when we are younger.

It's strange for me, because I'm still learning things about my mother's parents, who died when I was in high school 30 some-odd years ago and I'm still trying to incorporate the good lessons from them into my life.

CC, thanks for sharing.

CC - nice post - made me cry a bit. It is nice that you have those memories. I pictured them all as I read them.

Take care.

I'm sorry if I was insensitive with my 'How's life?' comment. I had no idea you'd lost a loved one.

That's okay; I didn't take it personally. I just assumed that you didn't know. No hard feelings.

I sure hope it was a good birthday. My friend Pat evidently has the same birthday as yours. We went to her party last night.

i hope it's been a better week for you...

Never heard whether or not you liked the songs I left for you. Was thinking about some more.

Yeah, this week's been better, I'm almost caught up on my school work (and my sleep). Next week should be really good, because my mom is coming to visit me for the weekend, so I've had extra incentive this week to get my work done.

I liked the songs you sent me, especially Dark Eyed Sailor, the woman singing occasionally sounds like Natalie Merchant on that song. I'd love to hear some more.

That is Gay Woods. It's from the first album, Hark the Village Wait. I've got a song done a cappella with Maddy Prior and Gay Woods called My Johnny Was a Shoemaker, where they both sing the same song, but they alternate right and left speakers. I hope you'll like it too.

I'll continue....

Hey CC, this is your thread. Anything else you want to talk about?

I guess that it (this thread) got hidden. At least it's just other decent threads and not all the SPAM like it used to be that moved it off of page 1.

lol gay woods

I took my soc of the Holocaust test last night. It was super easy. I really like that class, it's interesting. There's a lot more to the Holocaust than most people realize. I actually took it because I find WWII really fascinating, in fact, my junior year of High School I wrote a paper on the effects of the WWII on society.

My grandpa wasn't in the war. He was born in 1929, so he was a little too young. Sometimes I think that it would be cool to have a grandpa who was in the war because he might tell me all his cool war stories. Then I think about it some more and realize that I'm glad that my grandpa wasn't in the war. If he'd been in the war, he would be a completely different person and I don't want that. I like him the way he is and he's still got plenty of interesting stories to tell.

My dad was born in 1930 so he was too young to serve in WWII and didn't fall into the group that served in Korea.

My father-in-law was in the seabees or something like that. I remember that he had this one story about coming in to port and they provided the men on the boat some blankets to keep them warm. It wasn't much and they had to give the blankets back before they left. He was always upset about that and said that they should have allowed them to keep it so that they could stay warm.

I don't think that he saw any action, they were a support group in the war.

I think my brother in law served in Nam. I feel for any of them that served over there.

CC,
Hope you have a nice spring break week!

Thanks, hopefully I will. I have a lot of homework to do though.

I can't wait until summer break. Only 1 month and 13 days to go. I have so much to do. I have a Western Civ test (essay--of course) on Friday. On monday, my Women's studies journal is due, as well as my paper about--I kid you not--"if my vagina could talk, what would it say." Then, next friday I have a Western Civ paper due about a 245 page book that I'm only 32 pages into. The book is so soul-crushingly boring, I don't know how I'm going to get through it. I also have to start researching my soc of the holocaust paper and start reading the book for my soc of the holocaust book report.

UGHH...I can't wait 'til summer!!

In case anyone cares:

The Neko Case concert is in a week! I'm really excited. And There's only 1 week and 1 month until summer break. I can't wait!

I only have 16 pages left in The City of Dreadful Delight, if I start my paper tonight after class, that will give me 3 days to work on it. That seems doable.

I register for my fall classes on Thursday. I'm not so sure about some of my classes, especially Sensory and Perception and Physics (for some reason science scares the hell out of me. I guess if I really don't get it, I can always call my uncle, a science teacher, and he could explain it to me). My schedule works out so that I don't have any classes on Friday, which I'm pretty pumped about.

I really wish that I didn't have to go to soc of the holocaust tonight. If wasn't skipping it next week (to go to the concert) then I would seriously consider skipping it tonight.

Okay, well I gotta get back to reading.

Edit: I finally finished that boring book! Thank God.

CC, Have a good time at the Neko Case concert. I'm sure that you're going to love it.

Good luck on your papers.

I got my "If my vagina could talk" paper back. I got a 100%, plus she wrote quite a few comments. I only have 1 month and 1 day left of school and I only have 3 more papers to write (that's only 33 pages combined). The Neko Case concert is tomorrow. I think I'm going to leave early and go shopping even though I probably won't buy anything because I'm getting close to broke (hopefully I'll get my end-of-semester scholarship money soon). I'm planning on meeting my cousin and eating dinner with her before the concert, but she hasn't emailed me back (she's probably just busy, she's an even bigger overachiever than I am). It's really nice here today. I hope that it's nice tomorrow too. I'm gonna have to leave for women's studies pretty soon. I'm pretty sure it's at my professor's house again but I'm not sure. I guess I'll know when I get there.

Thus ends my various ramblings for the day.

I'm excited to hear about the concert.

Yes CC, tell us all about it after it's over.

Maybe you'll get the package tomorrow. Jamie's already gotten hers.

The concert was awesome! Her voice is just so strong and clear, I was thinking that throughout the entire show. Let's see...her band consisted of the Jon Rauhouse quintet and Kelly Hogan singing background. I've never really payed attention to Kelly Hogan before, but my god, she's good.

She sang all the songs that I was hoping she would sing. Here's the setlist (I can't exactly remember the order--sorry. Can it still be called a setlist if it's not in order? Oh well). The only ones that are in order are the first 2 songs and the last 2 songs and the encores.

Widow’s Toast
Porch Light
Deep Red Bells
Tigers have Spoken
I wish I was the moon
Hold on Hold On
That Teenage Feeling
Dirty Knife
Maybe Sparrow
Favorite
If You Knew
Train from Kansas City
Behind the House (I know she sang one more song, but I can’t remember which one it was. But I think it was this one)
Margaret Vs. Pauline
Star Witness

ENCORE 1
Buckets of Rain
John Saw that Number

ENCORE 2
Bowling Green
Knock Loud

Neko's bus


Opening Act: Jon Rauhouse Quintet with Kelly Hogan as 'guest singer'






This is the shirt that I bought

Now, aren't you glad you asked for our permission?

Jaja, love the shirt!

she didnt play with bees, yay.... i'm not jealous.

but she played deep red bells.... yep I'm still jealous.

Me too. I haven't gotten a chance to wear it yet because it's been so cold.



Deep Red Bells was one of the songs that I was hoping she would sing and I'm glad she did. I love that song.

I only have 2 more papers to write. I'm actually feeling pretty good about both of them. I've got a couple of the sections of my psych paper written. It was actually pretty easy to write, which is making me kind of nervous. I must be doing it wrong or something. It's far too easy. I think I'm going to go to the library and check out some books so I can start researching my soc paper which is due in like 12 days. I should probably be more worried about it than I actually am, but I'm sure it will all come together in the end.

I've actually had a pretty good week this week. On Monday I found out that I don't have psych lab anymore the rest of the semester, which is cool. Then on Monday night, my women's studies professor said that she's gonna be out of town for the next week, so I don't have women's studies next monday night. Then today, my psych professor said that he won't be hear on Friday, so I don't have experimental psych this Friday. Yay!

CC, Do you like Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind?

When do you get done with school Cici?

Yeah, it's one of my favorite movies. Why do you ask?


Finals are April 30-May 3, but my last final is on May 2. Only 22 days left! When do you get out?

I saw it and thought you'd like it. It's one of my favourites too. I love it, especially Clemantine.

May 9th in the last day of finals, I get done the 8th; but I may be sticking around for Graduation on the 12th.

I'm not (sticking around). I got done on the 2nd and I'm gonna leave on the 2nd, with my brother's help (he's coming to help me move).

You want to leave that badly? What, no love for women's studies? You should take a summer semester!

Yes, I really do want to leave that badly. I hate school. I always have and I always will. I may do really well in it, but I still hate it more than just about anything else.

Here's the problem with taking summer classes (besides the aforemetioned fact that I hate school): my scholarships don't apply to summer classes, so I would, you know, have to actually pay to go to school, instead of getting paid to go to school. And quite frankly, that's just not cool with me.

I'm sorry that you hate it, but we'll all try to help you get through it.

You're smart and you will do well in this world.

I'm making serious headway on my psych paper. All I have left to do is the abstract, the discussion, the appendix and the footnotes (and maybe one more table). The discussion will take me the longest. The abstract will probably take me the next longest. It's just so hard to condense an entire paper into 120 words. I have no idea what I'm supposed to put in the appendix and the footnotes, I think I'll email my prof and find out. Once I know what to put in there, it won't take me very long to do it. Then I can hand in my first draft and have him tell me how God-awful it is. I can hardly wait.

All your raw data and calculations go in the appendix.

I devided my appendix into 2 when I did my last piece of psych coursework.

That had to have hurt.

I'm not so sure. Do you use APA? b/c that's what I'm doing. In class my professor said that the appendix includes "anything beyond the scope of the paper," (which I don't have) then in my book it says that it can include a mathematical proof (which I don't have), a large table (which I have in the 'tables' section of my paper), list of words (don't have), a computer program (don't have) and a sample of a questionnaire or other survey instrument. As the survey is the only one that I have, I put in a sample of the survey. It doesn't matter what I put in at this point, as long as I put something in. If it's wrong, he'll tell me and give me some idea as to what to put in there.

If you have standardised instructions, put those in.