{"id":1015,"date":"2008-06-21T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:48","slug":"app-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"App This Fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/SF0cFZhoWuI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/whXE2YWgfQM\/s1600-h\/IMG_0631.JPG\"><img src='http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/SF0cFZhoWuI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/whXE2YWgfQM\/s160\/IMG_0631.JPG\" border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>Last weekend Keith, Skye &#038; I attended Appalachian State&#8217;s Orientation for Skye&#8217;s fall semester.<br \/>It was a day of promise, of finding out if Skye would get a dorm room &#038; a time to organize and get help from her advisor with her schedule. A day of gathering material and getting things together.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing we found out was that there were no dorm&#8217;s available for transfer students, period. The freshman class is the largest ever. Now we knew that might happen, but Skye had gotten her deposit for a dorm in asap and we thought her chances were maybe 75% to get a room. The tough part was that by the end of the day we found out App had known this for 2 months but didn&#8217;t communicate that to the transfer students&#8211;UGH!<\/p>\n<p>Also, Skye&#8217;s App Studies advisor didn&#8217;t show &#038; couldn&#8217;t be reached:( The English advisor helped as much as she could.<br \/>People were kind but the promising weekend was turning into a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>By 3pm, when all the Orientation stuff was finished, the 3 of us rushed to the library to grab a computer &#038; start calling Realty companies. Now I had asked a friend for use of her mt. cottage for two nights in case this might happen, little knowing the rental companies close at 5pm Friday&#8211;another UGH moment:(<br \/>Holten Realty thought they had something. We dashed over to find the room had been taken:( <br \/>They were sympathetic and kind and encouraging. <br \/>We put Skye&#8217;s name on a list.<\/p>\n<p>We felt beaten to a pulp:(<br \/>But&#8211;we had done all we could.<br \/>Skye &#038; I needed a little Mast General Store time but I must say our hearts weren&#8217;t in it.<br \/>At the end of the day the one good thing; ending up at the Aasland&#8217;s dear cottage near West Jefferson. One of the most peaceful places imaginable. We escaped for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The tough thing about this search is that Skye is in the wilds of Ridge Haven Camp &#038; does not have computer time during the week. And she&#8217;ll be there most of the summer. Grabbing weekend computer time will be crutial.<\/p>\n<p>So, the search for Skye&#8217;s room or apt. or roommate with apt. in Boone goes on&#8212;- from Brevard &#038; Apex.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}