Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.

Anya ,'Potential'


Spike's Bitches 25 to Life  

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NoiseDesign - Aug 23, 2005 12:13:39 pm PDT #8186 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

Oh, don't even enter the "achievements pale in comparison to my parents'" competition, bud. You'll lose. You'll lose big.

Oh no, I totally understand that I've been very fortunate and had good success in my field. I actually think that part of the reason for that is that I felt topping my father was so far out of reach I didn't even try, and as a result I found success along my own path.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2005 12:14:12 pm PDT #8187 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I will never live up to my parents' accomplishments, and that's due to both my lack of ambition and the fact that they carefully provided so much infrastructure that I'd need to be a freaking genius to achieve the delta they both did from where they started.

I bless them for the latter and blame me for the former.


Emily - Aug 23, 2005 12:14:24 pm PDT #8188 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I think we should all have slacker parents. Or, like, they could just lie to us. That would be good, right? Your kid says, "So what did you major in?" and you'd say, "Oh, gee, mostly Sleeping Through Class, I think. Really, they just graduated me to get rid of me," and hide your multiple doctorates behind your back and only tell your grandchildren about them.


DavidS - Aug 23, 2005 12:15:45 pm PDT #8189 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Okay, I know I actually make a pretty good living, but compared to other people in my family I am an utter loser.

Other people in your family don't have a space ship in their back yard.


Emily - Aug 23, 2005 12:16:49 pm PDT #8190 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

How does this not make you a great human being.

Fair enough. No matter how good their medieval theology or corporate law or institutional networks knowledge, my family will never know the scifi trivia I do.


juliana - Aug 23, 2005 12:18:19 pm PDT #8191 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

And in a fine example of Worlds Syncing Up, we had a long discussion about this last night at the readthrough of You Can't Take It With You - how Paul frets that he should have been an architect or something that would make his daughter Alice proud (she *is* proud and happy that he followed his own goofy star, but she also wants a more "normal" life).

My mother says that I am outstripping her, but the coolest thing is that she's now started her own theater company in Fairbanks, and is producing some of the best stuff up there. That makes me very happy.


erikaj - Aug 23, 2005 12:20:42 pm PDT #8192 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I don't have a lot to measure up against, except my mother's capacity for "playing hurt". Which y'all know I suck at...stiff upper lip and all that is just not my style.


sj - Aug 23, 2005 12:20:54 pm PDT #8193 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

The guilt I used to get growing up (which has luckily stopped in recent years) is: "your father wanted so much for you". Dead parent guilt is impossible. My whole family loves to pull out the "you're so intellegent how could you, waste it, not have a degree, ect".


Emily - Aug 23, 2005 12:30:35 pm PDT #8194 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I had a philosophical statement to make about set paths and "should"s and the pitfalls of high expectations, but I couldn't figure out how to say it in a way that didn't sound like a thousand cliches that have been spewed before, and besides I'm a bit distracted because...

I want cheese.


Trudy Booth - Aug 23, 2005 12:35:01 pm PDT #8195 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

Whereas some of us just, er, sit around a lot. Watching scifi shows and playing computer games. Oh, and drinking, when we can drag our lazy assess off the couch to track down alcohol.

If you were as smart as your parents you'd know to tuck a flask of vodka under the cushions. Duh.