On top of the girlfriend paranoia, now my mom's afraid I'm going to kill myself over not getting a job.
Is THAT a cultural thing too? (A serious question. Is there some similar-to-Japan tradition of offing yourself for failure?)
This must be what going mad feels like.
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Trudy Booth - Jun 13, 2005 12:10:16 pm PDT #4524 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2005 12:17:39 pm PDT #4525 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't think it's so much a cultural thing as a parent thing. She hears someone around my age (this time, a twenty-year-old girl who didn't get into pharmacy school and was posting (presumably in her LiveJournal or something ("she wasn't talking to her family, she was talking to strangers!")) about how no one loved her) kills herself, and she hears me feeling down about not getting a job, and she immediately thinks I'm suicidal.
Scrappy - Jun 13, 2005 12:20:20 pm PDT #4526 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That ranks right up with the BF's parents reacting to him shaving his head for a play in Grad School by sitting him down and worriedly asking him if he was becoming a skinhead, at which point he reminded them that he was Jewish.
sj - Jun 13, 2005 12:28:52 pm PDT #4527 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm sorry, P-C; my mom gets like that too. Try not to let her make you question yourself.
Why can't I ever remember that when I eat something I feel better?
Trudy Booth - Jun 13, 2005 12:40:16 pm PDT #4528 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It's bad enough when your parents think you're a skinhead, but when they think you're a lousy skinhead...
That's gotta hurt.
sj - Jun 13, 2005 12:58:26 pm PDT #4529 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
OMG, the woman on Clean Sweep is the most awful, ungrateful woman I have ever seen on any of these shows.
Laura - Jun 13, 2005 1:16:21 pm PDT #4530 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
What is Clean Sweep?
sj - Jun 13, 2005 1:20:56 pm PDT #4531 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
What is Clean Sweep?
It is a show on TLC, where a decorating group comes in helps you clear out your clutter, decide what to keep, help you sell and trash the rest, and then redecorate and help you organize your the space.
Laura - Jun 13, 2005 1:33:59 pm PDT #4532 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Ah, I would not be ungrateful.
sj - Jun 13, 2005 1:37:32 pm PDT #4533 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Me either. The woman they just had on was trying to convince her daughter to hate her new bedroom, which the girl seemed to genuinely like, and when she saw the new living room she kept talking about how much she hated everything and how hard she works and at the end of the day she just wanted to relax in her space. She was awful. I didn't see the beginning of the episode, but I can't figure out why this woman would even agree to be on such a show. I felt so bad for her daughter who seemed so very embarrassed by her mother's awful behavior.