Andi and I drove 22 miles to see Serenity last night.

Wow.

Now I get to plow through several hundred Firefly posts since last Friday.

Pretty much all of my non b/org friends have e-mailed me to gloat about having seen it, and want to know if I want them to tell me about it. Bastards. Although, one of them is sending me the Serenity RPG and the comic books, so he has a free pass to gloat.

I've spent my day being mildly annoyed.

1) One of the cats who lives on our back porch is pregnant (again) and thus desperately begging.

2) I don't mind when Greeks ask me where Mallory was baptized, because, hey, the whole country is pretty much Orthodox. But it's getting really awkward to have to keep telling Americans that he hasn't been. They all get this appalled look. Some of them say, "Oh! Right! You haven't been back to the States yet!" and I let it go, but that feels like lying.

But I don't want to get into it either. I just don't want the awkwardness.

Buffista thoughts? If you are from a religion that baptizes kids, and you ask new parents when/where their child was baptized, and they say he wasn't, what do you think?

3) I had lunch with my husband's office, and two of them had just seen "Crash" and were all about how racism in LA is so much worse than racism in the South. One of them said, "And I hate it when people who've never been to the South talk about how bad it is!" I asked if he'd ever been to California, and he hasn't...but he didn't get my point. If, by his rules, people who haven't lived in the South can't talk about racism there, why does he get to talk about racism in Los Angeles, never having been there? ARgh.

4) My epiesiotomy scar itches.

Chocolate would probably help.

"Oh! Right! You haven't been back to the States yet!"

Does the foreign christianity not take properly?

2) I don't mind when Greeks ask me where Mallory was baptized, because, hey, the whole country is pretty much Orthodox. But it's getting really awkward to have to keep telling Americans that he hasn't been. They all get this appalled look. Some of them say, "Oh! Right! You haven't been back to the States yet!" and I let it go, but that feels like lying.

Even if we remove the assumption that you are Christian, this is still loaded with silly assumptions. Plenty of Americans are Protestant, and plenty of Protestants do not practice infant Baptism.

Does the foreign christianity not take properly?

No. It's far too swarthy. Or possibly, they think Raq and Mr. Raq are waiting to baptize him in their home church.

they think Raq and Mr. Raq are waiting to baptize him in their home church.

I think it's this, plus you need your family there, etc.

eta: Although, since a couple of the folks who've asked are here as missionaries, you might have a point. Or they might be checking to see if we need them to do it.

How do Jewish folks handle this question?

Buffista thoughts? If you are from a religion that baptizes kids, and you ask new parents when/where their child was baptized, and they say he wasn't, what do you think?

We had that problem with Christopher's parents. His mother kept bringing up the fact that they had started attending their Lutheran Church regularly again and that it would be "available" should we want it for Owen's baptism. I just told her thanks and left it at that.

If anybody asks me, I just say we're not Christians and that pretty much shuts down the conversation. But not some of the horrified looks. *shrug*

Pretty Flowers from the Topeka Rose Garden: [link]

If anybody asks me, I just say we're not Christians and that pretty much shuts down the conversation. But not some of the horrified looks. *shrug*

We just say "No, we haven't had him baptized" in a tone that usually precludes follow-on. I guess I'm wanting insight into the minds of the folks asking: do they think we are horrible people or possessed by the devil? I need to know, in case they show up with rope and kindling some day.

I think most of them are being nice to ask, like it's the same as saying "How old is he?" But the reactions are weird.

Gud, those are GORGEOUS!

I've never been asked about Ellie being baptized. Which is funny because we did have her dedicated (Baptist equivalent of infant baptism) just two weeks ago. I think it's weird that people ask about it. Other than family, I don't really think it's any of their business.