Spike's Bitches 30: Going on 13.
This!
My highschool's approach to Career Advice:
Career Advisor: What do you want to be, then?
Me: A writer!
Career Advisor: Hmm...how about a secretary, dear?
Me: .....?
WRT choosing one's further education stuff:
Career Advisor: What do you want to study?
Me: Mythology!
Career Advisor: ...er...I don't think they do that, dear. How about English?
Me: ....kthxby
Back in the day, my
Mother's
high school conversation went like this:
Career Advisor: So what do you want to do?
Mum: I'd like to travel the world. I thought maybe I could get work on a cruiseship, doing childcare or working in a shop or something like that.
Career Advisor: Is your father an admiral in the Navy?
Mum: ...er. No? He works for the Coal Board.
Career Advisor: Dream on. So have you considered being a secretary?
The islands aren't a bad place to disappear to, and I'm sure I could find a Greek granny who would not only protect her from the kamaki here but would teach her parents a thing or two about life.
I am feeling quite empowered with this idea now. For them that missed the memo, Raq rawks!
Sleep now. Possible sidetrip to Vermont tabled for discussion tonight.
I am tired, overwhelmed and on the edge of just crying way more than I can deal with when there are people within people
distance.
Cass, I'm sure I've missed the story of what your niece is going through that makes you want to niecenap her, but I sympathize. You're a great aunt to want to help spirit her away from a bad situation.
The internets are a strange place. I set out looking for a recipe for Cornish pasties (instead of just making it up as I go, like usual), and end up at Easter Turducken [link] (I think it's chocolate bunny around peeps and a cadbury egg...hit the sale aisle at the drug store now!)
Wow. Gotta love the fact that it's called
Slashfood.
(Turducken, incidentally, is something I only know of through your good selves...I think that this particular level of overindulgence hasn't really hit the UK yet. Or if it has, it probably goes by another name. Does 'turd' mean anything in US slang?)
Does 'turd' mean anything in US slang?
Yes.
Yet another word for excrement.
{{{Cass and Cass's neice}}}
Well, that page also had a link to something else I did not know existed.
Coca-Cola Blak
I got the summer job I'd applied for!
Well, not exactly the one I'd applied for. I'd applied to teach 7-10th grade, and they offered me fifth and sixth grades, but still ought to be fun. I guess I'll mostly be teaching pre-algebra, with a little bit of algebra thrown in.
Turducken, incidentally, is something I only know of through your good selves...I think that this particular level of overindulgence hasn't really hit the UK yet.
Up until very recently, it was only in Louisiana. When I started college there (in 1999), I'd never heard of it before, and neither had anyone else I talked to from outside the deep south. Then it's just been in the past few years that people outside the area have been having it -- mostly because they recently started selling frozen ones.