Yeah. He's my hero.

Mal ,'The Train Job'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Emily - Jun 21, 2005 10:06:23 am PDT #3455 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Not so surprising near Harvard and M.I.T. as it would be if I discovered that about my congressional district.

Well, yeah. Thing is, I know I'm only a couple blocks from MIT, but I tend to forget about it. We're not exactly Harvard Square where I live.

Was the original entry one that lambasted the holiday?

This is me trying to think about it objectively: I don't think so. By which I mean, I don't think she intended it to be. It's probably possible to interpret it that way -- she said she didn't need a madeup holiday to remind her, so I suppose people could take that as lambasting -- but I think she was just... saying.

When I don't celebrate a holiday, I don't resent the mere mention of it, and bitch as if anyone who could get enjoyment from it was either a dupe of the mega corporations, or a deluded fool.

I was just thinking, most of the posts I've seen railing against such days are made by people who do celebrate them -- and hate it. Honestly, the amount of posts made by people whose mothers threw apocalyptic sulks if they didn't get the present/dinner/brunch/devotion that they thought they deserved made me really wonder if it doesn't do more harm than good!

But then again, one imagines those particular mother-child relationships are a bit guilt-laden at the best of times, and it's not the day's fault.

By the way, I don't not celebrate Mother's Day because I disapprove (although I admit I'm not big on scheduled holidays anyway, maybe due to my forgetfulness), but rather because my mother has never been home for it. She's always said her mother's day present was being away from her kids for the day. Okay, that sounds mean and disfunctional, but actually it's funny.


sarameg - Jun 21, 2005 10:09:02 am PDT #3456 of 10001

Holy crap. That's it.

I read a lot of really random stuff for that class.


sarameg - Jun 21, 2005 10:13:09 am PDT #3457 of 10001

I'm trying to decide if it was the southern, the clinical sex studies or the gin fizzes that made the connection, -t.


Jessica - Jun 21, 2005 10:15:20 am PDT #3458 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't celebrate Mother's Day because I usually don't remember it's happened until my mom's birthday rolls around two weeks later. (Conversely, I always remember Father's Day because it's in the middle of three family birthdays.)


P.M. Marc - Jun 21, 2005 10:19:39 am PDT #3459 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I celebrate it because I married into a family that does.

And I hate it. I think it is a wicked, nasty excuse to sell cards.


-t - Jun 21, 2005 10:20:45 am PDT #3460 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm trying to work out how I recognized it from your description, sarameg. I read that 20+ years ago. It just sounded like Walker Percy, though. I did google for a list of his titles before deciding that was my best bet.


askye - Jun 21, 2005 10:28:53 am PDT #3461 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Mom said this year "don't make a big deal" out of Mother's Day. And I didn't and she was hurt. Actually I think she was more hurt that my brother didn't send her an email and she took it out on me.

She's going up to OK for 2 weeks and she hates travelling. Loves seeing her sister and Mother, hates sleeping in a strange bed in a strange town. So I'm going to do a Welcome Home package thing for her when she gets back and hope that makes up for her not getting stuff for Mother's Day.


sarameg - Jun 21, 2005 10:30:15 am PDT #3462 of 10001

I think we also read the Thanatos one. It's been 10 years since I've read them. Strange, strange stories.


Jesse - Jun 21, 2005 10:37:57 am PDT #3463 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG bored. I'm doing work and it's boring, I'm not doing work and that's boring. Argh.


brenda m - Jun 21, 2005 10:38:25 am PDT #3464 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

Jesse, you picked a bad day to steal my life.