On a different note, how come no one told me that having a baby would make me cry at everything ? Maybe it's not this way for everyone, but I've been all upset at every murdered child, child bitten by shark, child drowned story on the news since she was born. I cried watching a The Practice with a dead infant last week. Being a mom has ruined my ability to enjoy TV!
NO KIDDING! I couldn't watch half the video clips for Live 8. All those starving children had me running for the gin and prozac.
This might explain the bumps on Em's head.
On a different note, how come no one told me that having a baby would make me cry at everything ? Maybe it's not this way for everyone, but I've been all upset at every murdered child, child bitten by shark, child drowned story on the news since she was born. I cried watching a The Practice with a dead infant last week. Being a mom has ruined my ability to enjoy TV!
Or newspapers, or CNN.com, or the local news. Hell, I cry reading Newsweek and Time, too. If it's not on Noggin, I'm not watching it. And I'm re-reading a couple of Jane Austin books this summer. Not. Watching the news. It freaks me out and makes me weepy.
Good luck with class tonight, vw. I somehow missed that part of your post.
I can't bear to watch the news, now, without the motherhood. Maybe I should stick to cats.
I seem to have missed the crying over everything, but I've nearly gone postal on a member of my Monday writers group any number of times because all his recent work is set in a dystopic future created by global warming that he's quite confident will really happen. Confident and, I swear,
gleeful.
And it just pisses me off, because he's 70 or so and doesn't have kids, so I'm like, "Can we stop rejoicing in the coming comeuppance of the wealthy and powerful? 'Cuz my daughter and I have to live with whatever comes, and while your rejoicing doesn't change the outcome any more than my fretting over it would,
YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF!"
Um. Yeah. Just channeling this stuff in my own goofy way.
{{Erin}} So sorry things are of the suck right now. Fay et al are wise people.
vw, good luck with class tonight!!
{{{{Erin}}}} I'm so sorry about the sucky day. Fay is indeed wise.
Ok, I'm going home to try and be fruitful and less craXXXy.
Thanks for all the hugs and hairpats and assorted Good Words and other welcome assistance. I feel like I might actually smile tonight.
That kind of writing bothers me too, Susan and I'm single as a unicorn.
