Gus, I'm sorry. My first instinct upon seeing your name over a post was to ass-caps a "welcome home!" to you, but now I'm just sorry it's been a rough coming-home.
[Edited to write JZ-with-exclamation-point, because I haven't posted with her in forever. So: JZ! Hope you're doing well.
If there's one thing in sitting here to write a paper when it's nearly tomorrow, it's posting with people I haven't posted with in forever.]
I can't think of who would be next, so that should mean it'll be a while....
::vows to marry in 2005, and have Jesse in her bridal party::
Yeah, that was a nationwide phenomenon.
Urgh. He blighted California so badly during his governorship that I have trouble remembering which pestilences he inflicted just on us, and which he was able to successfully carry over to the other 49. On behalf of the entire state of California, I'm most awfully sorry.
::vows to marry in 2005, and have Jesse in her bridal party::
Awesome.
On behalf of the entire state of California, I'm most awfully sorry.
Thanks! I feel much better.
I think I might need to find Jennifer Aniston's. Or shrift's shoe-scuff circle.
My shoe lament was genuine, although our circle tonight isn't so much a goddess circle as it is a "shrift, S is in town and she wants to hang out, and please please please god don't make me hang out with S all by myself!" guilt-trip circle.
But there'll be beer and enchiladas.
Alright, I'm done being all gloomy, except for one last item on that topic.
I guess I could have relayed a request to the judge to let me help the dude out with some kind of job and a place to stay in one of the
way
empty bedrooms in this old farmhouse. I didn't, though. My lefty-ness faded, at the idea.
I'm a shitheel.
A
pretty
shitheel, but a shitheel nonetheless...
A pretty shitheel, but a shitheel nonetheless...
A self-preserving shitheel, Gus. That situation may not have been the best.
I guess I could relayed a request to the judge to let me help the dude out with some kind of job and a place to stay in one of the way empty bedrooms in this old farmhouse. I didn't, though. My lefty-ness faded, at the idea.
I don't think you should feel bad for not doing that. You are not responsible for him. And that would be taking a huge risk that he might have some other problem(s) that would give you grief.
If you start giving yourself grief for not letting strangers live in your house, it's a slippery slope from which you may never recover.