Mini Apple

Try mini windy city! today was very windy (they projected gusts of 50 mph!) As I drove on the highways in my rented Hyundai Sonata a felt the wind pushing me as if I was pulling a trailer or something! Definitely thought of mom and dad and Don. Oh yeah and it is only in the 50s and frost could happen tonight. weird.

Overall today was very disappointing. I had 6 - count 'em 6! - high school visits today and never saw more than 4 students at a visit. One school didn't have anyone. I was hoping to clean up today! but now it is making me wonder if my visit letters actually got to the students - we mail letters to all the students we know have shown an interest to let them know we will be visiting, and that usually increases interest.

Then tonight I had a college fair that was only ok, and by ok I mean disappointing. They used their cafeteria tables, which are round, and were definitely not compatible with the rectangular table drape I have. No one could read the entire name of the school in just one look, they had to kind of circle the table. disaster. only about 50 previews got handed out when I was expecting at least 100.

No. 1 comment (as they walk by): Mom "oh, Arizona, I would come visit you there." mom and kid look at each other and smile at the absurdity of coming to Arizona.

Also my GPS is psycho. She (yes I use the female voice) told me to exit on a clover intersection between 2 highways, then to exit again (so go through 2 of the clover petal turns) then she said to "stay right" which I thought meant exit (3rd petal) which made her mad and I had to use the 4th petal exit to get to the exact same place I was when I originally needed to exit! So yeah, it was a comedy of errors - but the reason I needed to exit in the first place is because the GPS made me turn onto an Eastbound highway when She and I both knew I needed to go West, so then she literally made me do a u-turn (when not exiting at all would have made me go the correct way) which turned into a clover 4 way u-turn.

Awesome. My 7am college fair tomorrow better be better! I also have my top feeder school tomorrow (literally expecting about 30 students). if I have low numbers I will be convinced my letters didn't go out.

Time for bed.


PS: In an actually hilarious moment, I visited the high school with the counselor that wore the same outfit as me in the spring. She wore the exact same outfit again today! hahaha, She even remembered that I was the college rep that had that outfit but didn't think about it until she was at work. Luckily I had planned ahead and didn't bring that outfit as on option. And here I thought she wouldn't even remember the incident, too funny!