Maria, are you speaking of DC-socialising or of the question in general?
DC-socialising. I'd forgotten that the other exists.
t /been in DC since 1992
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Maria - Jan 27, 2005 9:58:23 am PST #1427 of 10002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
flea - Jan 27, 2005 9:59:45 am PST #1428 of 10002
information libertarian
So, ChiKat, what DO you do, if it's not too revealing?
Calli - Jan 27, 2005 10:00:32 am PST #1429 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yeah, whatever happened to genteel poverty anyway?
For that matter, what ever happened to the concept of the deserving poor? It's as if poverty has become a symptom of laziness and moral depravity, rather than something that can easily happen to the non-wealthy when the job goes at the same time that the medical bills come.
bicyclops - Jan 27, 2005 10:01:49 am PST #1430 of 10002
Hmm - While reading the Netflix vs. PPV discussion I got a Netflix popup ad.
ChiKat - Jan 27, 2005 10:02:14 am PST #1431 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I work for a research/consulting/publishing company that specializes in corporate sponsorships. [link]
Lyra Jane - Jan 27, 2005 10:03:01 am PST #1432 of 10002
Up with the sun
ChiKat, I wish I was kidding, too.
To be fair, "trophy wife" is a little different from "arm candy wife," especially in D.C. The trophy wife should have a master's degree and a job paying a six-figure salary, as well as being size four and blonde. The arm candy just needs to be pretty.
When the fam and I were in West Virginia we noticed that it wasn't the first question at ALL and almost never came up.
I noticed that when I was on the west coast. The only people who asked were the ones who seemed genuinely interested -- it wasn't a reflex, like it is here.
(This is sad, but I love my city.)
Theodosia - Jan 27, 2005 10:03:10 am PST #1433 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
When a friend of mine was doing an unpaid internship at the American Repertory Theatre here in Cambridge (MA), she noticed immediately that the well-off interns would immediately ask each other "Where did you board?"
juliana - Jan 27, 2005 10:04:15 am PST #1434 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
DC-socialising. I'd forgotten that the other exists.
Ah. I think I'd love to be a fly on the wall at a few DC gatherings, but I'm very glad I don't have to play there.
msbelle - Jan 27, 2005 10:04:41 am PST #1435 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the genteel poor stayed in Europe or got taken over by sprawling suburban mess and the deserving poor are still around, there is just no profit in them so they get no coverage - they need better press agents. Their image is all tied up in Oprah books and in the case of women, Lifetime movies.
Susan W. - Jan 27, 2005 10:04:42 am PST #1436 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I don't want to sound like poor pitiful me from a state school, here, but my career path would be very different if I had understood, at 19 or 20, that unpaid internships = connections = future jobs. It honestly never occured to me.
I'm still amazed at how clueless I was about practically all the realities of the working world when I was a student at--what were we calling them?--One of The Many Right Colleges. The information was all there for me to take through internships, the career planning office, etc., but since I didn't know the impressions I'd picked up from my isolated little Alabama town were wronger than a wrong thing, I didn't get slapped in the face by reality until I was a senior in the middle of a job search.