Happy Anniversary, Connie!
It's not really personal at all. It's the alltime classic American culture clash between generations.
Complicated by a genuine clash of the cultures.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Fred Pete - Jun 14, 2005 8:52:52 am PDT #4642 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Trudy Booth - Jun 14, 2005 8:58:15 am PDT #4643 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
and probably some lingering caste bias
Deena - Jun 14, 2005 9:17:37 am PDT #4644 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Congrats, LJ! I hope these people appreciate you properly and give you what you need to be successful at your job.
Connie, happy anniversary.
Polter-Cow - Jun 14, 2005 9:22:02 am PDT #4645 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, your parents believe you could become a Ph.D. It's not that they don't believe in you - they obviously have a lot of faith in your abilities.
The annoying thing is no matter what happens now, I can't go back and get a Ph.D. I can't give them that victory, fulfill that "I told you so." Stupid sexy life-changing decisions.
Congrats, LJ!
DavidS - Jun 14, 2005 9:24:34 am PDT #4646 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The annoying thing is no matter what happens now, I can't go back and get a Ph.D. I can't give them that victory, fulfill that "I told you so." Stupid sexy life-changing decisions.
You could get a Ph.D. in Sexology. That'd flip 'em out.
§ ita § - Jun 14, 2005 9:24:47 am PDT #4647 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just as you shouldn't let your parents force you to do a PhD, you shouldn't let them prevent you from doing one, if you want it. Otherwise they're still controlling you.
askye - Jun 14, 2005 9:33:56 am PDT #4648 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
PC, my Mom went a bit crazy when she heard my brother was planning to go to New Zealand to study Outdoor Education.
Even though my brother had done the same thing for the past 5 yrs and earned a nice living and was well liked by his employers Mom still kept saying "But what's he going to do! He'll get this degree and won't be able to get a job and then he'll starve!"
It seriously freaked her out becuase it's so different from anything my brother ever expressed doing and it was something out side her comfort zone. Finally after reminding her about my brother's job (at the time) and that he had skills she stopped flipping out. But it took months. And I think she still has these panics but she doesn't mention them.
-t - Jun 14, 2005 9:34:39 am PDT #4649 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
ita is wise. And, to cross-pollinate a little, there's no need to for you to be figuring out what you'll do if the writing doesn't work out. Just try to make it work out, for now.
Connie Neil - Jun 14, 2005 9:36:22 am PDT #4650 of 10001
brillig
Many years ago, my oldest sister decided to go to Finland for some semester abroad business school thing. She decided to take a side trip to the Soviet Union, as it then was, and my mother desperately tried to talk her out of it. She was certain my sister was going to disappear into a gulag somewhere off this carefully organized and guided tour to St. Petersburg.
Parents are not always level-headed.
brenda m - Jun 14, 2005 9:37:17 am PDT #4651 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
And was she?