Maybe he's hinting...though I look at the rates and despair.

Good kitty! erika, you really need to understand that there's a cost of living adjustment for living in the Bay Area. You make more money here. I mean it's still expensive, but you can't look at your Phoenix money and the Bay Area prices and get a real sense of it.

Oh, *I* don't have Teh Cramps; I was just commiserating with Robin b/c I *do* get cramps of doom; just not today.

Glad to hear you're not amongst the suffering. Feel free to save up the ~~~ for later, if you like.

juliana still around?

Of course, while the website only has me registered for 3 classes, it still has me paying for 4.

Feel free to save up the ~~~ for later, if you like.

Pre-emptive squiggles! Yay!

I need to move my tushie.

Really.

Daniel asked me to take a DVD back to the library, and I just remembered I bought a pile of stuff to make salsa with yesterday. Need to actually make it.

Need to take shower, first.

Want nap.

Must.

Find.

Pronouns.

So, the shower is in the room the MoH has purchased using points from her husbands travels. We (the guests) are invited to hang there or by the pool, then have the shower in the room, followed by the Bachlorette Party dinner whatever and then, we can all cram into the room for 10 of us to sleep there.

This just gets weirder all the time. Honestly.

And again, with the "She's clearly trying to fake a level of lifestyle she ain't got but desperately wants (people to think she has)."

Of course, I had no bridal showers and no baby showers, so I'm not much with the getting of the concept anyway. I like the ones where I take a covered dish and a present to someone's house, and there is casual non-orchestrated pleasantness.

P-C, glad things seem to be going forward in some fashion. Best of luck with however they pan out.

Thanks!

Now I will have to endure the shame of my parents as they give me the "you could do better" every time we talk.

Actually, if someone could spring for my ticket, I'd be happy to fly in and play the part.

transfers frequent flyer miles to JZ

Now I will have to endure the shame of my parents as they give me the "you could do better" every time we talk.

Well, sure you could. I mean, everybody could. There's always better. And there's always worse.

And I'm going to bed. Clearly on 3 hours of sleep I'm chatty but not terribly deep.

Now I will have to endure the shame of my parents as they give me the "you could do better" every time we talk.

Been there. Hopefully it will eventually get better.

When I told my mom in undergrad that I was going to be just a theatre major and drop my other majors her response was, "But why would you do that, theatre is what talented people do."

It wasn't until years later that they started to understand I might have a little talent.

Now I will have to endure the shame of my parents as they give me the "you could do better" every time we talk.

But at least it's familiar, right? Sorry they can't change their tune. (But seriously, not that different from many parents. Mine have different verses from your parents, but a remarkably similar chorus).

I was thinking of you this weekend. My Kung Fu school had a beach party, and I met the (white) girlfriend of one of the (Indian) instructors. I mentioned something about having a friend who was struggling with similar. The girlfriend said something about his family not being as traditional (I believe the phrase second-generation may have been thrown in), but she still seemed kinda uncomfortable (actually made me wonder if I may have accidentally trod upon toes). Anyway, umm, thought of you this weekend.

Jeez, sometimes my username just really exerts its accuracy, dunnit?