Citizen Dog by Mark O'Hare for October 17, 2011

Wasn’t the first one you were on comffortable enough?

Good Morning, cleo, sugar, Fellow Baby & the rest of the CD gang

They are leaving until he tries every mattress in the store.

Good morning Fellow Baby, cleo and sugie!8 *Fellow Baby, did you see my good night to you here last night? :-D

Hi there StelBel, puppybreath, x_Tech and JP Steve.

I think that the mattress is just a weeee bit too soft.

Good Morning Grog, Dry, Cleo, Lonewolf, puppybreath(where ever you are), StelBel (party on) & all sleepy CDers out there.

Dogs are not a good indicator of comfort. They can lie and dose anywhere in obvious comfort.Good morning Grog, Dry, sugie, StelBel and the rest of the prone CD readers.

This comic stinks…please cancel!

That’s nice, Fellow baby, but does he have to go back to mid-terms? Or did he have them before the break?

Fellow Baby no, mid-terms are right before Christmas break. Then the spring semester, and then finals in early May. He is home most weekends, the college is only 1 1/2 hours away. His bro was 4 hours away, but now he’s living around here again after living away for 3 years after college. Actually living in my parents home, which is good, because I didn’t want to sell it, and also didn’t want to live there, so it sat vacant for a year after my dad passed away until he moved in.

Oh and I didn’t waste a lot of time at college. I did a couple of courses, and applied to Concordia U as a mature student. A full time mature student can get his degree in 3.5 years. If you did the college, you could get your degree in 3.

As I understand it, their curriculum is more intense than most Universites in Canada and the U.S.

Grog, I read that the forests are dying in the eastern half of your state because of the drought. How awful!

cleo, if they’re not dying, they’re burning. It is sad.

Fellow Baby the college my son attends starts in mid-August, Fall Semester ends at Christmas then the Spring semester starts and ends in mid-May, unless you go thru summer and I’m not sure how they run. I can’t remember anymore if Cornell had the same set-up or 3 semesters. Of course, Cornell is Ivy League, and my youngest attends an in state college, so I don’t know if that makes a difference or not.

I’ve heard (from Concordia) that most Universities have or had 4-year programs. I’m not sure if this is still true now, Fellow Baby

I did most of my schooling at night, except my final year. I took a leave of absense from work to finish it. I didn’t know how much of a smart & timely move that was until after I did it and got back to work.

I hated taking courses at night, but they did have an advantage over the day schedule in that you only had to go to class once a week for 2.5 hours vs 2 classes of 1.25 hours during the day. Unfortunately I din’t always have that luxury with my final year courses. A few were only available during the day.

I know Dry, some people complain about everything.

Grog* it has been such bizarre year for weather. My old hometown of Minot, ND flooded And all the fires, tornadoes and such are alarming. On a different note, I would have a rough time taking classes at night. I do a much better job of focusing in on what needs to be done in the morning

I agree, cleo, especially after a 10 hour work day. But when I was on leave, I had the luxury of getting up a little later in the morning. That did help some and saved me at least an hour of travel time per course taken at night. The after or before rush hour bus schedule wasn’t much better than the evening bus schedule.

Oddly enough, of the courses I wanted to take, I don’t recall any morning classes.

They were either early afternoon, or early evening. I really dreaded the 8:30PM – 11 PM schedule. Fortunately I didn’t have any of them in the latter years. But early on, it was really difficult getting up at my usual early hour of the morning. I tended to get home from those pretty close to midnight.

All 3 of agwaring’s were to be to complain. I think, maybe, his membership should be cancelled.

Well once again Venus is on the rise, and the time to catch the Fever will come all too soon. Good night, all.