#ooc

Okay, so Buffy nailed the SATs with a really high score, almost as high as Willow's. She could go to any college, in theory, and fortunately there was UC Sunnydale. I seem to recall there are good colleges near Rivervale. She doesn't have to vanish.

At least, that's a fictional model that might justify a choice to stay home?

yup

and, honestly, with some reality-wiggle, NYC schools or Rutgers would be commutable

Like, Paramus has a train. Rivervale doesn't in our reality...

chuckle My husband and I like to joke how most Hollywood script writers seem to think Manhattan and Boston are just half an hour away from each other, given how detectives like to hop back and forth between the two on crime shows. I figure we can manage similar commutability. And Rutgers sounds like a good fit for Dagmar.

Now, most colleges insist that freshmen live on campus, but we can fudge that.

Yeah, agreed - she's like catnip for some more elite schools (what, hard-luck mixed race foster kid with an arm like a cannon?)

Right?!

But Rutgers feels a little more... blue collar? I know it isn't, but the rutgers grads I know are very down to earth

Right. I can't see her going to Columbia.

Yeah, but I could see Columbia courting her

I have to think that modern teen characters would turn up their noses to the one shows we loved

oh, true

I can’t tell you what they WOULD be watching

but, well, netflix

But it would probably be awful 😂

Friends, apparently, if my kids are anything to go by

Really?? Ha!

and The Office

They adore Avatar TLA.

Or at least, my honors kids do.

yup!

Harry Potter is not gone, but def on the way out

Disney is big

Weird, I just realized that I haven't talked with my students about TV recently. It's...not a topic.

I mean, I don't even overhear them talking about it.

The Avatar thing I got from seeing t-shirts.

most of them stream

or, honestly, tik tok

my kids are a little older, but still

I am absolutely certain that Dagmar loves Encanto though

and we know she loves superheroes, so Buffy & Xena work for her

OH D&D is also big with the kids

I think that's going to fade in the next couple of years, judging on my current high schoolers. It had a big wave with Stranger Things, but not so much now.

fair

but well, the nerds will be there 🙂

Boooo!

Also, hi, Shady!

oof, ok, I knew it was not a wise choice but at least now I know what to expect if I eat waffles.

I will need to be good the rest of today.

...the waffles were tasty, though

Did you have them with syrup?

Waffles are sneaky with the sugar.

Yup. They were my last two and I wanted something different.

Well, you can manage around it. 🙂

yup!

.... now I want french toast with bacon

In theory. I'm not actually hungry. but it always sounds good