My Mom Got Cited!

[livius drusus]

In an Australian scholarly journal! And not just a footnote either, but a whole paragraph calling her dissertation study of re-entry adjustment "pioneering". :woohoo:

How insanely cool is that? Like it's not cool enough that she went back to school and got her doctorate in behavioral psych at 63, now she's kicking ass all over the world.

:hyper: :cartwheel: :wriggle:

[wei yau]

:poly: <-- liv's mom


Woo! Check out the big brain on liv's mom!

[Dingfod]

Now that is cool. I can see how you would be proud, I was proud of my mom when she got awarded a college degree after 20 or so years of taking a class or two at a time at a small state college.

[fragment]

Cool! Well done, your mom. Are you celebrating with her somehow?

If she can make a splash at twice my age I guess there's some hope for me yet...

[livius drusus]

:poly: <-- liv's mom


Woo! Check out the big brain on liv's mom!

Yeah! :bgirl:

(I actually thought that line was "big brain on bread" for years. :blush2: )

Now that is cool. I can see how you would be proud, I was proud of my mom when she got awarded a college degree after 20 or so years of taking a class or two at a time at a small state college.

Holy crap that's cool. I can't even imagine the dedication and stamina it took for her to keep her eyes on the prize. Congratulations Warren's Mom! :graduate:

Cool! Well done, your mom. Are you celebrating with her somehow?

Just over the phone, I'm afraid, although I'm clearly going to have to think up a great congratulatory present. Time to conspire with my dad, I think. :para:

If she can make a splash at twice my age I guess there's some hope for me yet...

I hear ya, my brother.

[MooseIBe]

yay that's cool :)

[Dingfod]

Now that is cool. I can see how you would be proud, I was proud of my mom when she got awarded a college degree after 20 or so years of taking a class or two at a time at a small state college.

Holy crap that's cool. I can't even imagine the dedication and stamina it took for her to keep her eyes on the prize. Congratulations Warren's Mom! :graduate:Mom worked as a bank teller then as an insurance clerk all during that time so most of the classes were evening classes. She actually started evening classes at the local junior college after I turned 16 and was able to drive my brothers and sisters around to their various activities.

[freemonkey]

That's cool, liv. How is your mom taking it? Is she as excited as you are or is she all like "yeah, well, all in a day's work."

[livius drusus]

She's hugely excited, freemonkey. I suspect she'll be calling everyone she knows "just to chat" over the next few days. :chuckle:

[LadyShea]

Wow, way to go Mom!!

[Gurdur]

Congrats!

[curses]

Wow, way to go Liv's mom!:woohoo:

[Cool Hand]

And I thought this was going to be about your mom going to jail for driving really, really fast and smarting off to an insecure cop. What a letdown.

Big deal. She'll be in some dusty book in a country where no one can read.

Ha. Congratulations, liv. That's really cool. Now you so want to be like her.

CH

[livius drusus]

Damn skippy.

Thank you, Moose, Shea, Gurdur and minus. :wriggle:

[Crumb]

Wow that's great liv. You have a cool mom. :1thumbup:

[livius drusus]

I do, don't I? :cheerful:

[Leesifer]

Well done, Mrs liv.

I hope she's feeling suitably chuffed about it too!

[BDS]

"Re-entry adjustment"?

Your mom wrote a dissertation on astronauts?

Congratulations to livius' mom, whatever her dissertation is about.

[livius drusus]

That she is, Lees. :snoopy:

BDS, first the obligatory :glare:. There. Now that that's out of the way, the re-enterers are expatriots who return to their country of origin after a lengthy stay elsewhere. Mom's diss looked at it in terms of coping with loss and how this grief is often dismissed by the friends and family welcoming them home. Disenfranchised grief, she called it.

[viscousmemories]

That's awesome, liv. Congrats to yo mama. :1thumbup:

[fragment]

Send me a copy, I'd better read up on it before I head back to NZ. :wink:

[livius drusus]

Oh just reading it won't do the trick. You need to hire my mom for the full program. :therapy: :spend:

[Plant Woman]

Just what I love to hear. Congratulations to your mother, and way to go!

This reminds me of this young girl who goes to a local community college and works at a coffee shop where I go frequently to write. She complains to others about the middle age women taking classes as if those women have no right to be there. I want to get up and smack her attitude down.

Never too old to continue education. Your mother proves it! She isn't wasting her mind.

[livius drusus]

That kind of attitude pisses me off too, Debbie. My mom always takes it in stride -- makes a disarming joke about being the oldest person in the class and moves right along. If I were in that coffee shop my mom would be the one holding me back from smacking that girl around. :bull:

[Ymir's blood]

She probably got cited for creating a public nuisance.

[Clutch Munny]

It's important to bear in mind that real reason to intellectually respect someone isn't that they spent years sitting in classrooms, or that they have some letters after their name. It's not a matter of being recognized as a so-called "expert", and it's not that some university puts a stamp on them and pronounces them qualified.

No indeed. It's something more subtle, more life-embracing and, if I may say so, more spiritual. That's right. It's their Citation Index rating. Your mom rocks.

[livius drusus]

She probably got cited for creating a public nuisance.

:glare:

:giggle:

:glare:

[livius drusus]

No indeed. It's something more subtle, more life-embracing and, if I may say so, more spiritual. That's right. It's their Citation Index rating. Your mom rocks.

Yes, yes she does, but wait: Is there really such a thing as a Citation Index rating and how does one go about scoring a copy for the purposes of obscene amounts of bragging?

[pescifish]

Wow that's great liv. You have a cool mom.No kidding! Your parents both sound fascinating, creative and great! (As one might expect, given their resulting issue.)

I'm sure you and your father will come up with an awesome congratulatory celebration!
:yes!: :party: :yes!:

[Clutch Munny]

Does this link (http://portal01.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame) work for you, liv?

[livius drusus]

Thank you, pesci. :blush: I have to call him before my mom gets home to get the conspiracy rolling.

The link takes me to a go to the main site, you shaved ape page, Clutch.

[Clutch Munny]

The link takes me to a go to the main site, you shaved ape page, Clutch.

Shazbot.

Well, that's the place, anyhow. It tells you how many published works have cited your publication.

It's basically used for (1) evaluating senior (ie, full-prof) hiring candidates and (2) surreptitiously checking your own stats. :wink:

[JoeP]

Congrats Mrs drusus!

:notes: livvy's mom has got it goin' on :shatter:

[TomJoe]

Cool. Also, glad to hear that your mama doesn't have to go to court. :P

[Legs]

Hi liv, congratulations to your Mom, you must be really proud of her

(unless of course she was cited for public nuisance)

[livius drusus]

It's basically used for (1) evaluating senior (ie, full-prof) hiring candidates and (2) surreptitiously checking your own stats. :wink:

Not in order of importance, I assume.

:notes: livvy's mom has got it goin' on :shatter:

:giggle: I was just listening to Fountains of Wayne this morning.

Cool. Also, glad to hear that your mama doesn't have to go to court. :P

She'd have the cops, judge and bailiff talking about they mamas instead of her ticket within minutes.

Hi liv, congratulations to your Mom, you must be really proud of her

(unless of course she was cited for public nuisance)

I really am. Oh and also :glare:.

[Petra]

Woohooo! Congrats to livius' mum!


This is seriously cool news. :bow:

[JoeP]

:notes: livvy's mom has got it goin' on :shatter::giggle: I was just listening to Fountains of Wayne this morning.:phew: I was sure I'd get a :glare: for calling you livvy. Since it's OK I'll call you that from now on, mmmkay?

[livius drusus]

Thanks, luna. :eskimo:

<img src="http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/smilies/glare.gif" width="100" height="100" />, JoeP.

[Ensign Steve]

There. Now that that's out of the way, the re-enterers are expatriots who return to their country of origin after a lengthy stay elsewhere. Mom's diss looked at it in terms of coping with loss and how this grief is often dismissed by the friends and family welcoming them home. Disenfranchised grief, she called it.

Does it also apply to returning to your city of origin after a lengthy stay in the South? Cuz I might want to read it.

And congrats to mom! :cheers:

[Philosophy]

Wow! The fact that she went back to school and got a doctorate at age 63 is extremely cool enough!! :bliss:

[Philosophy]

It's important to bear in mind that real reason to intellectually respect someone isn't that they spent years sitting in classrooms, or that they have some letters after their name. It's not a matter of being recognized as a so-called "expert", and it's not that some university puts a stamp on them and pronounces them qualified.

hmm...Munny?!!

I respect you not only because of your immense knowledge but also because of that 4-letter prefix that goes before you name: "Prof."

Not to mention the "Ph.D." .... :bow:

This I call "titular respect". :yup:

[Godless Dave]

She probably got cited for creating a public nuisance.

That was 33 years ago.

[Clutch Munny]

It's basically used for (1) evaluating senior (ie, full-prof) hiring candidates and (2) surreptitiously checking your own stats. :wink:

Not in order of importance, I assume.

Clearly you've spent time around professors.

Is your mom's dissertation in the works for publication (as a book, or some papers based on it)?

[Clutch Munny]

It's important to bear in mind that real reason to intellectually respect someone isn't that they spent years sitting in classrooms, or that they have some letters after their name. It's not a matter of being recognized as a so-called "expert", and it's not that some university puts a stamp on them and pronounces them qualified.

hmm...Munny?!!

I respect you not only because of your immense knowledge but also because of that 4-letter prefix that goes before you name: "Prof."

Not to mention the "Ph.D." .... :bow:

This I call "titular respect". :yup:

Well, don't. In my experience, professors are owed a rational nod to their authority only when they speak very, very precisely on the exact thing they research. (Which I rarely do here.) Otherwise, you should evaluate their credibiliity the same way you evaluate anyone else's.

One exception, of course, would be if I really did hold a PhPirate degree. Not only would that be really cool, but it would then be very sensible for you to agree with everything I said. Otherwise I'd send your scurvied self to Davy Jones' Locker with a hanger through the brisket, ye swine.

[viscousmemories]

I wanna be a PhPirate! :hissyfit:

[Clutch Munny]

V.Memories, Ph.D

I hereby award this degree from Patriot University, based on credit for Knife Experience and your contributions to Plundering.

[Dingfod]

Sounds like an honorary degree.

[livius drusus]

Oh the places you'll go!
:ahoy:

[viscousmemories]

Rockin' good news. I'm so in. You will all feel my wrath. ALL OF YOU!

[Adam]

Nice! Congrats.

Is there an Avast Index somewhere that PhPirates can check?

[Ensign Steve]

Rockin' good news. I'm so in. You will all feel my wrath. ALL OF YOU!

And this will be different how?

[JoeP]

She probably got cited for creating a public nuisance.That was 33 years ago.:giggles: