S is for S*t*r*e*s*s

Your Stress Level is: 52%

You are somewhat prone to stress, especially when life gets hard. When things are good, you resist stressing over little problems. But when things are difficult, you tend to freak out and find it hard to calm down.

How Stressed Are You?


Have you ever been in a crazy rush in the morning and clunked your noggin on the car door frame?
YEOW!! Ouch that hurt. A seeing stars kind of moment.

That is how I started my day yesterday. And I wasn't even going to work, just going down the street to take Kid Two to school.
I feel like there is too much to do, and I am forgetting stuff like crazy. Scary.

I'll blame it on stresssssssssss.




Meanwhile here are some un-stressed looking cats to look at to help you feel more relaxed, if that's what you need (I know I do).
Now that they are more comfortable here with us they let us skritch them, which is always therapeutic.

Hard to believe

An item from the Associated Press caught my eye in the newspaper this morning. It could be from the "truth is stranger than fiction" file, I daresay.

The report says the dean of admissions at one of the country's most prestigious institutions of higher learning has been asked to step down for allegedly falsifying her own resume.
Yes, you read that correctly. Or as humor columnist/author/baby boomer Dave Barry would say, "I am not making this up."
The woman has been employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 28 years. The story says she "misrepresented her education," claiming she had earned degrees from three colleges. Apparently she did not graduate from any of them.
And last year she even co-authored a book, "Less Stress, More Success : A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond."

OK. As the mother of a daughter who just went through the college application process last year and a son who is about to embark on the college application process in the fall, I cannot find the words to describe how appalled I was to read about this woman.
How could she have pulled the wool over MIT administration officials' eyes for almost three decades?
I am shaking my head.