princeton bbq

ok,so.....I have lived through this event.......which was not the event I feared it would be......I will admit to major midwestern neurotic phobias about ivy league events......but I was put at immediate ease by the hostess who has three mature buckeye trees in the backyard....and whose mother hails from a town in ohio 17 miles from where I grew up....there were a few alums/recent grads either in med school or law school.....and a few rising sophomores.....but mostly it was the families of the three 'area' freshman class of 2009....except for betty because the hostess couldn't get ahold of her.....I spent most of my time lending moral support to the mother of the boy from pineville,ky.....think mountains........she hasn't been able to visit Princeton....and was very concerned about details.....and so I transitioned from insecurity over my lowly nonivy status.....to a wealth of knowledge to a mother in need....I felt downright useful...maybe not as helpful as I can be to someone traveling to paris for the first time...but close ......I volunteered to bring her boy as far as danville at christmas break.....she was almost tearful....of course...I must assume that any and all of these students i meet are future nobel laureates....including my own child....and certainly worth the trouble .....but back to those buckeye trees.....I was so tempted to take a seed pod or two.....one doesn't see buckeye trees often....and I really want to grow one in own yard.....