-gasp-

ita!

ita is here!

HERE!

Frantically checks her hair and make-up glances herself and her Natter nest over. Pauses. Turns around and smiles

I have come from a far land and been welcomed into your tribe. I present you with a gift, ita, of a redhaired cheerleader!Lex in a Smallville/ Sweet Valley High Crossover run by Joss and Tim.

Bows

Like I said, humdrum existence. I take my drama where I can find it.

(Although, when you're friends with, say, 8 people, and four years later all 8 of them are married? And you're nowhere near such a state? Can be a little -- weird. Like, way to all fall into line with the dominant paradigm, people!)

I decided it was as close to being betrayed in favor of The Man as I was likely ever to see in my humdrum existence

Nutty, I feel your pain, I really do. She hasn't even graduated yet. I just gah! I don't think she's given it as much thought as she should have. And also the very idea is making my skin itch. These are all things I should be getting over before I call to congratulate her, yes?

You know, speaking of both marriage and childrearing, I have been SHOCKED at how much shit people still get for their various choices regarding same. A woman I know had people actually call her a bad mother for going back to work after having a baby. In 2005. Are you fucking kidding me? I've also heard a ridiculous amount of judgementalness around woman changing their names -- on both sides.

Can we all enter the new millennium, people? There are many ways to live one's life!!

t /pet peeve

I got married at 22, as well (as did most of the folks I was friends with at the time), but we all know how well that worked out.

There are many ways to live one's life!!

This is like that crazy "people are different" thing you keep pushing, isn't it?

This is like that crazy "people are different" thing you keep pushing, isn't it?

"Yes! We are all individuals!"

"I'm not."

Jesse has a tolerance agenda! She's probably in league with Sponge Bob Squarepants!

I'm becoming quite the zealot, really.

Doesn't Emmett attend a private school?

Nope, public all the way. Public in a suburb populated about equally by wealthy people and UC Berkeley faculty, staff and grad students and therefore at least as well funded and challenging as the best private schools you could find, but very much public.

I have a friend, firmly nonreligious but very earthy and crunchy and holistic, who, last I heard, was bound and determined to homeschool her two boys (at present just toddlers, so the homeschooling is theoretical at this point). However, the last I heard about the homeschooling was almost a year ago; given that she is presently in an evening-classes nursing program and about 3,500 months pregnant with her third and last child, she may have changed her mind about the homeschooling. She's a brilliant mother and her sons are gems and she's incredibly driven and focused, but I think that if she continues planning both the nursing program and the homeschooling while coping with a newborn, her friends and DH are going to stage an intervention, because something's got to give and none of us want it to be her or the boys.

Cindy, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Christopher's screening. Please also be aware that your description of him as the fluffy-bunny king of the jungle nearly killed me.

Oh, I hate work right now. I want to be (a) at home watching noir movies, or (b) back in LA having a proper visit unspoiled by anyone's food poisoning, with more Lee, more Robin, and less sickitude, and time to see more Emeline and her parents, and possibly some Frannie and her parents and the rest of the mob of LAistas and SoCalistas whom we totally missed. Also, chicken and waffles, or anyhow waffles. Work is bitter and hateful.