Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 01, 2014

Good luck, Luann.

Give yourself some time, Luann, take your core courses first, and something of interest is liable to pop up! ;)

I know just how you feel, Luann, and I’m a lot closer to retirement than you are…

Jeez. Give her some time. The first semester isn’t even over yet. lol

I play Miniature Golf just the same way Luann does! Dumb ball goes anywhere Except where it is supposed to go! =-O

“A Spot Of Tee And A Cup Of Wonder”“Par And Wide”“Touch And No Go”“You Can Call Me Albatross " (♫)“Putt ’Er There, Pal!”“It’s A Lot Of Work To Find A Job”“Par For The College Course”

“No Ifs, Ands Or Putts”

or“Can’t Make Up The Windmills Of Your Mind”

This the same answer I give my mother…yet she doesn’t get it yet…

I’m 78 and I still haven’t figured out what I want to grow up to be. And I am running out of time.

I thought Luann wanted to pursue a career as an actress — that’s why she had wanted to go to Juilliard before her parents ruled that out.

Now would bea good time for Brad to remind Luann of how much HE bounced around before finding his calling as a firefighter.

Fell asleep! Will search! ;)

I think I liked it better when they just insulted each other :p

Seriously though, it’s kind of nice, catching a glimpse of the old “awkward” Luann, again.

I’m not sure she’s picked more than one class, let alone attended the one a second time.

Sorry about missing your posts…just never got a chance to get to the end the past few nights! =-O Yep, we were going E-W on I-90! What town do you live nearby?My son Loved intel; for awhile he was on a combined task intel force (Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard)…can’t say what they were doing, however… Anyway, he did that for a year and then got a medical discharge. It was difficult for him to leave and it took him about six months until he did some serious job hunting. Today he is a senior electronics technician and is happy as a clam! Perhaps, one day, Luann will be able to find her happy life’s job…

Well, so far it is confined to that hospital in Dallas…it will remain to be seen… ;)

We’ve seen her attend one class, and we don’t even know what it was. I think she will get her Associate’s degree in “attendance”.

Oh, OK, I remember Ellensburg! ;)

Oh there’s plenty in the area in and around Baltimore! You may be referring to “Phillips”, which does have good ones (and an all you can eat buffet for seafood and other goodies). When we go “into town”, we make it a point to go there. It moved from one end of the harbor, to the other (now resides in what used to be the ESPN center). But there’s a bunch more places with good stuff, and now there’s a “Joe’s Crab Shack” popping up here and there, all over the area…

Hahahahahahahahah! about the Chevron station… ;)

I don’t think so… ;)

LOL, you should have taken her to the-wait.. I can’t think of any place more expensive…

You spoil her! (X^D)

LOL!!! (X^D)

I have an Irish Setter to corral (she’s outside on the deck) and head off upstairs…have a good book I just Have to get back to reading (I fell asleep these past two nights in a row!). Oh, wait, she finally came shashaying in! Makes my job rounding her up far easier! ‘Nite all! ;)-—————————————————————————-“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body’s work’s expires."(William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)

Here’s a link to some more places, if this helps…

LOL! – And yeah, that’ll do it, going past McC’s!

Someone once told me that “career” and “careen” have the same root word.

It’s good to see that Luann was just joshing with Brad in yesterday’s strip.

Follow the bouncing ball, Luann, and sing your song of woe!

Hey, Hey, HEY, Girlie!

After a MISS like THAT, You’re Supposed to Scream, Cuss and Smash Your Golf Club like “Mature Adults” Do!

How auspicious that it did not land in the garbage.

Getting lost.*Circuitous routes, on vacation or in life, provide for the most meaningful experiences. And exciting!

While Brad’s statement is a typical expectation, as a professor, I wish more folks would understand that college is much more about learning to think more deeply, and to acquire a stronger ability to analyze and understand the world. Especially in the first two to four semesters, a college student should be EXPLORING his/her options by immersing in a wide array of courses. Most students end up doing this as there is a general education requirement at most schools… but unfortunately, students who only think about college as a career path do themselves a disservice often by taking a “plug-and-chug” approach to the general education classes that they (often incorrectly) perceive to be unimportant to their end “career” goals. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++As one example, I cannot count the shear number of students I have had seeking some sort of health setting related career (nursing, medicine, physical therapy, etc) express to me their disdain of their English writing classes or their mathematics classes or their history classes ("Why do I need this “junk”?!? I want to be ‘x’!") Unfortunately, many who start college, or come from backgrounds where they may be first generation students in college, do not understand how these “ancillary” courses will help them to become far stronger in whatever profession they do pursue.

Pipe: Barber school enrollment is up, going on shear numbers. :-)

Life seldom takes straight paths to the grave.

My younger son hit many a home run playing goofy golf.

I thought that you had to be a junior before you had to declare your major?

Happy Birthday to your wife. In the words of the late Henny Youngman. “Take your wife to a place that she’s never been to before; The Kitchen!” Happy Birthday again.

And you know what? It’s not going to get any better.

Love that hard right turn on the third bounce of the ball … she must have quite a slice going there …

Many years ago, I went to my unions’ regional meeting. Part of the meeting was a golf game. I didn’t go, but I was able to play golf at the hotel. Later, when everybody came back and talked

I see no point in attending college without having at least an idea of a career path. Otherwise, you are better off just getting a job or doing service work while you figure it out. College is too expensive (in both time and money) to invest in it without any goals.

“This place is supposed to be Boomers and yet I see the MG of Magic Golf”*HtD- thanks for the info! Glad I checked comments for once before asking the question.

@janinabarnes

Couldn’t use the reply function.-You sound just like I did, when I was starting college back in the very late ’60’s. I was very sure that I knew my goal; I wanted to be an archaeologist (having participated in digs as a volunteer with the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh).-I took as many archaeology and anthropology classes as I could find, and chaffed at the need for general literature classes, math and geography. (Of course, I understood the need for history in my field).-But a couple things happened on my path to finding the answers to What Really Happened in Ancient Times. One, I developed serious and sometimes crippling arthritic damage in my back,legs, feet, etc. (Makes it tough to get around on a dig site). And, two, the funding for field work dried up.-I was fortunate, then, that I had taken required classes in other subject areas, such as statistical analysis, computer programming and geography. It was those additional classes that helped me to qualify for a position in a Masters Degree program for Urban and Regional Planning. And that is the career I ended up pursuing.

No rush. I am sure Luann has at least 20 years of college ahead of her. There is plenty of time for her to chose a major.^^And after Luann marries Gunther, will Greg’s Grandson create their daughter “little Luann” and start the whole process over?

We go for a round of miniature golf here and there. Once, I had a 68. Then, I moved on to the second hole.^^My favorite Mini Golf shut down a few years back (But, new ownership has promised to reopen it next spring), the par on the course is 44, and after 35 years of playing, I finally managed a 42 just before it closed.

“The job market, like most of reality, does not match the taxpayer funded advertising.”^True! Especially not the pictures of everybody all smiling and everything seeming all “neat and clean” and all “satisfying and sunshiny”….. – Sort of the same way for the food on some places’ menus….

Looks like Luann got the trick “super ball” that’s randomly handed out at the mini golf course.Otherwise, only cartoon physics gives you that kind of angular acceleration in a putt.

LOL!

MAKING THIS BIG BECAUSE I JUST FOUND MARGE FROM GERMANY’S POST ABOUT JONATHANS GRANDSON GREG! THUMBS UP GREG!

FIGURED WITH SO MANY POSTS HERE JONATHAN AND GREG WOULDN’T SEE IT OTHERWISE! :-)

Dry and Dusty (Reply button’s not working again)It doesn’t matter how big you make the font, Greg never looks in on us groundlings here at GoComics , he’s enamored of the FaceBook crowd.

No need to pick a major or career path until junior year.

Yikes! ;)

LOL about the miniature golf second hole! ;)

Re: The golf ball and the cow. My hub laughed so hard at this story that he just about fell off of his computer chair! Hilarious!!! ;)

I was like that, too, Luann.