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.
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 25 to Life
[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.
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."
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.
Emily - Aug 23, 2005 12:38:27 pm PDT #8196 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Unfortunately, that would require planning in advance, which is a no-go for me.
Gudanov - Aug 23, 2005 12:39:09 pm PDT #8197 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I want cheese.
My Buffistas mental framework has just undergone a paradigm shift.
NoiseDesign - Aug 23, 2005 12:40:39 pm PDT #8198 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Unfortunately, that would require planning in advance, which is a no-go for me.
Do what I do, just keep a flask under every cushion.