It's funny to think about my parents, because when they met, their respective families probably had similar amounts of money even by then. But my mother's family had been rich, and my father's family had been poor, and all of my grandparents kept a lot of their childhood attitudes their whole lives.
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 7:48:44 am PST #7255 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 7:57:24 am PST #7256 of 10002
I'm the best daughter ever. I'm finagled my dad a poster of this [link] ,which he'd recently admired.
shrift - Jan 04, 2006 8:01:20 am PST #7257 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I made it all the way to 1pm without feeling the need to cut somebody.
Dana - Jan 04, 2006 8:01:49 am PST #7258 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I made it all the way to 1pm without feeling the need to cut somebody.
2006 is gonna rock!
amych - Jan 04, 2006 8:05:22 am PST #7259 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hey, I'd be happy to support an artist and/or musician husband whom I thought was talented (or amusing).
Sure. But the support-an-artist model is a pretty well accepted one, where the supportee's (supposed) genius gives them a social standing above their income. The same often applies for the whole class of Educated People Without Paychecks To Match (academics, clergy, Mother Teresa if she were a marriageable guy....) It's a lot more rare to support a gas-station attendant because he gives good foot rubs.
shrift - Jan 04, 2006 8:06:49 am PST #7260 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
2006 is gonna rock!
Well, I woke up this morning with an idea for some SGA fic, so that was good. Now all I need to do is take out hits on the two morons who just made me see red, and we're back in business.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 8:08:15 am PST #7261 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's a lot more rare to support a gas-station attendant because he gives good foot rubs.
Hey, good foot rubs are an art!
(Signed, married a freelance writer who she met in film school and therefore has No Cred in this matter whatsoever.)
Steph L. - Jan 04, 2006 8:10:01 am PST #7262 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just saw a Kansas City Star newspaper. Headline in huge print "12 miners found alive after 41 hours".
Yeah, there's the same headline on the Cincinnati Enquirer, and someone in my office said the New York Times had a similar headline.
Apparently the early editions of most major papers had headlines about the miners being alive.
amych - Jan 04, 2006 8:11:24 am PST #7263 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hey, good foot rubs are an art!
Well, sure. But sadly, the social capital machine hasn't caught on yet.
(Signed, he'll be a fencing master yet.)
Aims - Jan 04, 2006 8:12:38 am PST #7264 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I woke Joe up last night to tell him that they were alive.
He woke me this morning to tell me that they were dead.
I told him he's not allowed to call me with news like that again.
My heart is just broken for these families. I read an interview with one woman last night who said, "I knew I wouldn't have to tell my son, 'Daddy's not coming home.' It's a miracle."