Posted by kim on June 16, 2009
In all of our household busyness, my son (as seen above with dear ole me) graduated from high school last month and has already moved to Omaha for the summer to work. But we met to go to Lincoln together last week for New Student Orientation at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. It was an all day affair 7:30 – 5, which I think could have been shortened to half a day if they cut out some of the skits, shortened some presentations and offered tours a la carte (as we’d previously had the same tour on a campus visit). But it was informative for both of us nonetheless. My son is super excited to start attending, and he is all registered for classes to start this fall. My guess is that his favorite part of college will be the student tickets to the football games and the all-you-can-eat cafeteria buffets (yes, it’s that much better than my cooking). And the best part of the day for me was when they thought I was one of the students and not a parent! I thought it was a compliment even though they apologized for the error. Overall the experience made me wish I personally had attended UNL in my former life to be able to call myself a true “Husker” instead of just a Husker fan.
Posted by kim on June 1, 2009
Yesterday was World No Tobacco Day, and today Nebraska’s Clean Indoor Air Act goes into effect! The law bans smoking in all public places and businesses except cigar bars and 20% of hotel rooms. Yippee! Can you tell I’m a non-smoker? Sure the smokers are upset – I say it’s a good time for everyone to quit!
I posted on my Facebook page (are you my friend yet?) how excited I was for this day to come. Got some good commentary/feedback…
Kim: can’t wait until June 1st when Nebraska bars/restaurants will be smoke-free.
Mookie: Think of all the water people will save — no more post-bar showers to loufa the smoke off.
Christina: And there will be much rejoicing.
Amy: except for all the post- bar showers to loufa all the booze and sweat off!
Brent: They did that in Boston a bunch of years ago. It was the best thing that they could have done. No more going home stinking of cigarette smoke, and you can actually breath in the bar now.
Mookie: I don’t know Amy, I kinda like the booze-and-sweat combo. Sort of like a “marinade”.
Jay: But this may cause more people to quit smoking. Cigarette tax just went up by about a buck-and-a-half! Who’s gonna pay for the Economic Stimulus Package? Who’s gonna send all those bankers to Jamaica? Poor bankers.
Jay: I have an idea! Nebraska just implemented a new death penalty. Well, if second-hand smoke kills you, how about we put condemned criminals in little cages in bars, and let people smoke near them? Kill the convict, and entertainment for everyone, at no extra cost to the taxpayer! Jay for Governor!
Amy: LOL- Ewww!!! Marinade. Yuck. I’ll pass on being a sirloin thanks!
Jay: Plus all those unemployed loufas.
Amy: Poor loufas!
Kim: Wow, I finally go to take a shower for the day (yes I’ve been slacking off) so I can go out and get all smoky again tonight and come back to all these comments – you guys are too funny.
Dustie: dont like it… dont go!!!
Amy C: Emporia KS bars/restaurants went smoke-free a couple months ago….it is great!!!
Bonnie: Been smoke free here in MA for years, not too bad
What are your thoughts? Do you think smoking should be banned in all public places across the USA?
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