Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 04, 2014

So much for the sandals!!! ;)

So much for the first day of school.

“The Agony Of De Feet”“You’ve Got Late Expectations”“An Early Girlie”“Location, Location, Location”“Taking The Directory Approach”“You Are Not Here”“Under The Wire”“Down Murphy’s Street”“Burning Rubber Heels”“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Class”“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”“A Whole New World” (♫)or“One Wrong Turn Deserves Another”

IJB: (Can’t get the “Reply” button to work…Again!)…anyway, you have so many good ones this evening that I am having a difficult time choosing one LOL! ;)

I’m betting it’s Anne Awful!

ha ha ha

This is definitely LOL material.

From now on, Luann will have to start getting ready eight hours before her class. I wonder what subject this is supposed to be? We never saw her register for any courses.

I know this is sort of off-topic, but I’m replying to a post from yesterday…Gary13: you asked how I managed to do so well in college despite my less than average grades in high school and other lproblems… Well, unlike Luann, I had to go to work right out of high school. The company I worked for encouraged their employees to get a degree so they could get a promotion (good for the company, good for the employee). I was about 23 at the time. Kept getting the local community college’s list of the upcoming semester’s classes in the mail. I’d been mulling around about starting a class, but kept putting it off. Finally, I gave in to my curiosity and registered for a World History class. (My favorite subject). It was a Huge step for me as I was the first to attend college on my mother’s side of the family. Anyway, something “clicked” and I was hooked. Took me awhile, but I finally Did get my degree. I guess one could say I was “driven.” I wonder what is really pushing Luann to get an AA degree? Is it because that is what most of her friends were doing or maybe because her parents went to college, and so expect her to do so? At any rate, she Is there, sans sandals (!). I sure hope her instructor is not Mr. Fogarty!!!! ;)

At least the map didn’t show any open field to cross. That would have been lethal.

Noooooooooooo…NOT Fogarty!!! ;P

Over the summer, Fogarty blew his entire high-school teaching pension on wine, women, and song. Time to start career #2.

Those signs are OK for people who already know where rhey want to go…

Luann should have gotten to her new CC about two or three hours before the start of her class! This way she’d have had plenty of time to discover where she needed to be without running about and subsequently getting out of breath and maybe even being late?! Even better, she should have visited the campus a week before to get acclimated, find her classroom, locate the restrooms, gravitate to the Student Lounge, check out the Library, and peruse the Bookstore. Of course, that would have presupposed her being organized enough to do that. Unfortunately, it seems Luaan had clothes and makeup on her mind… ;)

I told you it’s weird, I look like Luann and my name sounds like hers, and I just started college too. But I always think Luann is so dumb. Why does she care about dressing up…

It will be interesting to see who the instructor is… And what class Luann is taking. (I believe that the first CC class one takes will either make it or break it!). ;)

Well, time to head ‘em and move ’em out…a good book awaits! ’Nite all! ;)-————————————————————————————“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so."(Josh Billings—-Henry Wheeler Shaw—-1818-1885)

Reality has set in!

Hopefully, she won’t be one of those kids who is forced to go, then fails miserably due to lack of motivation. Maybe her best friends’ and boyfriend’s ambition will inspire her to earn decent grades.

Luann may have driven to the Remote Parking Lot W (day students), but that’s only half the job of getting to class. Apparently Pitts CC does not have a shuttle bus service on campus. So, all hope of looking super-duper on Day One is gone, and the lass is exhausted even before the shocking late entry to the mystery-instructor’s class (will it turn out to be someone we already know?)….

Okay! Luann has HAD Her 1st Lesson: Why Students Don’t Normally get all “Gussied Up” for Classes.

ah. Rookie mistake. didn’t figure out where her classes were ahead of time.

BTW, that’s an awfully big map for a CC.-I’m thinking that it is a city map with the college buildings scattered. It is that way here in Boston for some of the colleges.So Luann will have to find out where to park or take school shuttle.Too bad she didn’t attend the freshman orientation seminar.

TORAD_07 originally said: BTW, that’s an awfully big map for a CC.

And @reedkomicks replied:I’m thinking that it is a city map with the college buildings scattered. It is that way here in Boston for some of the colleges. So Luann will have to find out where to park or take school shuttle.Too bad she didn’t attend the freshman orientation seminar.

Ah, so, although it says, Campus Map, the campus is dispersed throughout the city and the buildings are all intermingled. I guess the municipality of Pitts seems to scale in size to meet the needs of the scenario at hand. I would not have imagine Pitts as having that big a downtown. Maybe GE is channeling his inner San Diego when he draws this stuff. :-)

Ahhh. So emerges the Luann that I’ve come to know and love.

Like I said yesterday, people who watched the old Dobie Gillis show in the early 1960’s will not be surprised to see Fogarty. In that CBS TV series, when Maynard and Dobie got out of the Army, they found that their old English teacher from high school (Leander Pomfritt) was on the faculty when they attended S. Peter Pryor Junior College.It happens in “real life” too— wnen I was at Willmar (Minnesota) Junior College in 1970, there were at least 4 or 5 members of the teaching staff who had previously been employed at high schools in Willmar and the surrounding area!

As for the teacher being Ann Eiffel, the notion is so improbable as to be absurd, unless there is a contrived situation where she is teaching some kind of “basic business” course.Also, Ann was not an adversary of Luann; it would make more sense to have a situation where she would appear as Brad or Toni’s fire department supervisor. That should be unlikely too…

So, I have made a prediction again. In the past, most of my predictions have been wrong. Therefore, I will not be surprised if the teacher is not Fogarty. But then, judging from Luann’s shocked expression, it will have to be someone she knows…

my guess is that it’s that little creep with the big car she once dated briefly

I suppose there is a possibility that it is Ms. Phelps, assuming she has some teaching credentials outside of guidance counseling.

Who could it be? Hopefully, it will be revealed tomorrow.

Well, she’ll be known as the weird barefoot one forevermore, so might as well get used to it.

I realize it is a long shot, but how about that Munter guy from the bookstore, the fat idiot who thought he was so damn funny? Again, unlikely. I know he was only a comic strip character, but he was so much like real people I’ve known, I hated him with a passion.

The second panel indicates that it took Luann 27 minutes to walk from Lot W to the building where her class is; that’s not an unrealistic walk on the suburban-style campuses of Seminole State College here in central Florida, or any of the other State Colleges (community colleges) in this part of the state. But it’s a walk best done with good walking shoes!

Seriously? Some of you people think Anne Eiffel is teaching? Just like “Oh my god, she might be the insurance adjuster.”I’m sorry that’s just stupid.

Yes, that theory is plausible, but I want to be surprised tomorrow!

Well, it IS Luann here. We could’ve forecast this (or something like it).

By second semester, you choose your classes less by content and more by the mileage between them

Barefoot on blacktop? She’s going to be burning her feet!

When I was in college, I had to ride a bicycle between classes – Ohio State is a fairly big school.

@Dave53-Can’t get the reply function to work at all, not even giving me the error box with ‘cancel’ in it. What gives with the website lately?-I’m not a teacher, but related to several. I can safely assure you that caring teachers (at high school, middle school and grade school) have not gone out of fashion. In fact, the teachers I’ve met have to be doubly dedicated to their mission these days, since there is such a tremendous increase in pressure to pound individual facts into pupil’s heads so they can perform on standarized tests. (Since there is no such thing as a standardized student, it should surprise no one that this effort is not a blazing success.)-IMO, scripted shows on TV, whether my favs (mystery and cop) or shows about school days, are all unrealistic. Of course, much of what is on the networks these days are the alleged ‘reality’ shows (people eating bugs while voting their fellow bug-eaters off an island no one wants to be on).-So when I’m home I watch History Channel and the Food network. American Pickers and Chopped…

@howtheduck-(Can’t get the reply function to work)-As far as visiting the campus to register for classes and buy books, Seminole State College here in Central Florida allows students to do both via the internet. The school recognizes that a significant number of its students have full time day jobs (an increasing number are also vets who have physical therapy appointments during the day). If that’s happening here, it’s probably the case that community/state colleges elsewhere are offering that option, too…

Room 222 was a classic, well written show. The only problem with it is that it probably led us to have unrealistic expectations of what a teacher and guidance counselor should be like. Caring and insightful teachers unfortunately just don’t happen all that often ( at least at the high school level. IMO there are grade school teachers who still aspire to these traits.) Sorry if this offends any highschool teachers in our readership.

Yeah, that’s why I said “late 60’s…” :-))) I actually had GC’s that “did” care… But, sadly, more are like Ms. Phelps these days. :(

Night-Gaunt… it may not be that Fogerty retired from high school teaching to adjunct at the community college…. perhaps he had been adjunct teaching there in the evenings for many years and simply never mentioned it to his students at the high school. So, he retired from high school teaching with his pension, and is earning a little bit more still by teaching one or a few community college classes as an adjunct instructor like he may already have been doing for a while.

That seems like an extra large campus for a community college.

Good start, Luann – late on the first day of class!

Pitt CC is probably modeled after Palomar College, the local Community College in San Marcos, CA, where Greg Evans lives and draws the strip. Here is a map of the Palomar campus. There is a fair amount of walking required to get from the student parking lots (which surround the campus, rather than being inside it) to some of the classroom buildings. (It’s a pretty big community college – their fact sheet says they have 30,000 full- and part-time students for the fall and spring semesters.

Hmmm. Does this mean she never took a pre-school tour of the campus and did not locate her classrooms ahead of time??

Why didn’t she scope out the campus and find all her classes before the first day?

so typical that in order to get parking ANYWHERE near your class you have to arrive 2 hours prior!! I hated community college for that reason alone!

Recon is useful, but it doesn’t necessarily help with the biggest variable on most campuses – parking! This is especially true in the first week at a community college, when there are lots more students on campus than usual as they jockey to get into full classes and many sit in on classes that they’ll eventually drop.

Let’s be honest, we never met Bernice’s room mate after all the teasing, you really think we’ll meet the prof? If we do won’t you all be upset that with everything Evans’ has dropped his is what he follows through with.

For all who predicted Fo-getty as her instructor; stay ’tooned!(If it IS Fo-getty , I would wonder why, after all his exasperations, he would go teach at a Community College, which is just H.S. student one level up.)

how long has she had her schedule and didnt even bother to go up to the colege and say MAP OUT where and how long it was gonna take to get EVERYWHERE?

After closely viewing today’s panels, using the magnifying function of this website, it actually seems that she is agonizing about being late to her first college class. It is a fact that the artist is not known for being a great technical illustrator, but the sight lines from where she is would be around a corner (or two) from the classroom.

“What’s the most disappointing teacher selection possible?”-——————————————————-Agreed, Especially after Evans wasted a month on nostalgia strips for this character instead of finishing out other arcs properly: “Say, Bernice , how’d that thing with Delta before Prom work out?”“Hey, Knute didn’t see you and Crystal out on the dance floor like back at New Year’s, what gives?”" Ox , who handled door security while you and Tiffany waltzed to that slow number?"

So much for the shoes that were just too cute, eh Lu? :)

After further review— I think she’s just late. No Fogarty, yet it could have made for a great dream-sequence…

-To me, the point of this whole arc was not that Luann was all too casual about the need to tour the campus and figure out a timetable. It was the irony of her getting up so early to fix herself up nicely (and probably leaving earlier than she might have figured necessary, maybe to grab a good seat to see and be seen), BUT she ends up arriving late and all messsed up. -Why? Not because she’s dumb, but because this (college) is a big change from high school, where everything is in one building and she knows what it’s all about (or thinks she does.) -Didn’t most of us go through this kind of jolt when we first started college, or our first jobs?

She looks like Lizzie Mcguire in those shoes.

I still think it will be Mr. Fogarty, with a new flair. I think he has been teaching as a adjunct at the CC for a while and just not letting the kids know back at the HS because… well, he hated the apathy. I think we will see a Fogarty that is energized, dynamic…. and still the QUIRKY Fogarty we have seen. And, with his pension from the HS, the adjunct pay (which is usually pathetic) is just extra pocket change to enjoy.

Note that Luann had spent a lot of time on the Moony Uni campus (“working” for Quill this summer and then helping Bernice move into her dorm), but she hadn’t even looked at a map of her own campus before now. I think that says a lot about just how dedicated she will be to her academic pursuits at Pitt CC.

I hope it’s not Fogarty — in this class at least. We need new faces.Best would be a heart-throb for Luann.…If we have to retread, even Ann Eiffel would be more fun, or the guy in the wheelchair, or the bookstore manager, or the elderly retired lady.. . . I’d wouldn’t mind Fogarty as a fellow student in some class. Hope this will not just be rehash.

How could Luann live near the community college and not visit before her first day of class? Luann, that makes no sense whatsoever.

If my own comic ever makes it, I would welcome a million critics like the ones who show up here. Fandom as many faces.

Did we ever see who her roommate was or did I just not recognize what was going on that day?

That Luann does things poorly should be no shock. ..Her basic character is comical because she is a klutz. (More even than you or I.)..Her major failing is that she is often too self-centered.…Being boy-crazy is another aspect, as is jealousy, especially of Tiff. ..We have to expect all this of her as she enters college.. . We see these kinds of failings in ourselves at times, so we can sympathise with her and hope for the best.

The University of Connecticut has a “W Lot,” and all the students who do not live on campus must park there. And the walk to class can be as much as a half hour, even more, from that lot! Of course, they do have shuttle buses, but those change routes after 5:00 P.M.. You can’t get there from here or there!#Keep on truckin’, Luann! You’re not alone!

@Reedkomicks:

That’s the way that Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania is, where the campus is really among the city streets. The same with Towson and the same with U of Md. where the campus is sprawled across the city streets, and lots of public access, and also with school shuttle and the area transit buses have stops throughout, but still enjoys secure and private entrances….

Okay, #!: Nobody is talking about cheating! (at least not me.) – #2: I’m speaking in terms of story development. Boy meets girl, conflicting interests, we get “involved” as characters struggle with issues, resolutions (whether positive or negative, favorable or unfavorable, character brilliance or character “dumbness”) occur, perhaps later on, a realization, and sometimes boy/girl runs back to recover original relationship in a “triumph”, or perhaps a “key moment” that such resolution doesn’t happen. Whichever way it goes, that’s the point of all of us tuning in/reading/listening to stories, movies, songs, TV shows, etc… – #3: She already had a similar conflict earlier when she found herself interested in “an older man” (Stuart, the lifeguard) and the misunderstandings and poor communication (and a rather dubious hesitation from Stuart) that arose from that. It’s possible that she finds herself conflicted again, but perhaps this time it’s a single teacher, and the issue then becomes as I was alluding to, the need to contemplate the import residing in the song I mentioned in reference to this…..

So sad! I really thought there was going to be recovery!

When reports said she’d been moved off of life support and out of intensive care, I thought it meant she was doing better. Guess I didn’t realize what they actually were saying. So sorry for her daughter.

But again, there is the " potential breakup angle" between the two, in this (again, I stress ‘potential’.). I reference another work of fiction: “Saved By The Bell”. In that, boy finally gets girl, but then a “handsome college professor” comes along, and the girl finds herself conflicted, and states that she " never meant for it to happen this way". Same thing happened in “the Wonder Years” (over and over again, at that!). As always, you’re still have people with all kinds of “Perceptions/Perspectives/Points of View” regardless of what potential path is taken here..

So that must’ve been why that one report had went out the way that it did, earlier yesterday or the day before. It’s already tough to go through that, period! And also tough when you have to doubly seek privacy and protection, because of having entertainment/media/public connections.

I have been through that personally and was thinking that when they moved her to a private room. When they moved my Mom from ICU to another room to “keep her comfortable,” I knew her time was short. I was there until the end. At 82, she was one year older than Joan.

As it was with my 82 y/o aunt. She had a significant stroke, but the diagnosis and treatment plan took way too long (the local hospital wasn’t setup for that kind of neuro work – they had to fly her to a big city hospital). But it was too late, and the family (including me) opted for “palliative care” only. They transferred her back to a “hospice” facility near her home, no life support. Although it took a couple of days longer than anticipated, I understand she went peacefully.

Okay, maybe having Viper as an instructor is reaching a bit, but please no Fogarty, unless its Jennifer Fogarty, currently touring with The Addams Family Musical. She’s great.

I don’t want to “make the mood heavy” here, but I’ve had the experience myself. My grandmother (we were close) was in a similar vein, but sadly the doctors knew what was happening, but it was us that they were trying to comfort, and they kept saying they were “working on her”, but we were sadly resigning ourselves to what was already taking place….

Dang! It’s only Thursday and we’re already up to her first class! Maybe THIS arc will not end in a cliffhangar— unlike that of TJ’s insurance, Bern & Dez, Gunther & Plan D. Two days can tell all.

And every now and then, it ‘pops up" when I’m doing something else, the memory of that account. – But there has been some hope, cope and comfort!

Luann should have taken more time preparing for getting to her first class than taking time preparing for how she would look for her first class…

“But, some people are like that with their decisions. Some will go out and buy a car based not on it’s reliability, but by how many cup holders it has”*BS – And there’s a problem with that? —Coffee Aficionados Feel Enervated

Those subject to both the 60’s and the 80’s are likely to be Libertarians, or at least lean that way….

Or pass over a house with a great view and a cheaper price and maybe little renovation and in a great neighborhood, for a house with a so-so view and a bit more over budget, just because it has that great portico and foyer that you can “wow” your potential house guests with….

Actually, I just realized- Luann’s first day today is also the 14th anniversary for a dear couple of friends of mine, who were married just a month before my wife and I! Kind of nice to have an anny when kids will be back in school, and when, soon, “daylight savings” means more time to sleep celebrate….

Hours of work undone in a matter of minutes…

Quite a difference from high school, eh, Lu? This is why I went to orientation before I started college.

I can see this one coming…

Wow! I have forgotten what it was like on the first day.

In fairness to Greg, I can believe that Luann might spend much more time taking care of her clothes, hair, and makeup for her first day of class compared to figuring out where her classes are and how to get to them. It does fit with her established character. I just hope that she learns quickly how to adapt to college.

Maybe Mrs. Manezone, in addition to being on the faculty at Moony, is an adjunct at Pitt CC to pick up a few extra bucks. Of course, we don’t know yet what this course even is (although somehow I doubt it is mathematical foundations of quantum field theory).

Yeah, I was thinking about that strip. At least it would resolve one controversy – the odds that Luann would take a course in “Thermodynamic Constraints on Astrophysical Processes” are about as small as the odds that Mr. Fogarty would teach it.

In that case, she can end up in a class where she gets to teach herself . Sort of like an "all you can cram buffet…

They still have silent television.

No, its all Lumber and Salmon colors… ;)

A CARTOON foot fetish, yet.