Mmmmm, turnip greens...

All she wants to do is be a good mommy and come take care of me, and I know it would be bad for both of us because of how uncomfortable and defensive we can get around each other.

This is still my relationship with my mother, which is why I spent a lot of time talking her out of visiting during the whole cancer treatment/surgery business. She was very hurt, but sometimes you just have draw a line. I figured I could deal with surgery or with my mother, but not both. I also have cousins here in town who were very upset that I didn't let them do anything. They drive me crazy when I'm well. I figured that being sick had to have some percs.

I've also made a recipe in which you run the Brussels sprouts through the slicing blade on the food processer, which makes a fluffy pile of tiny cabbage leaves that cook more evenly.

In interrupt this lovely conversation on brussel sprouts to remind you all that Nora is just about the best lunch date ever.

Also, a small bitch:

If you sign up for a 3:30 tutoring session, do not e-mail me and tell me you signed up for a 2:30 tutoring session. I have the sheet in front of me. It tells no lies.

Also. Why would you sign up for a 2:30 tutoring session if your class goes until 2:45?

And, I'm off to meet my 2:30 appointment :).

Why am I at work when no one else is? I'd totally leave and "work at home" for the afternoon, but they might be delivering my new iPod today. Arrgghhh.

Ooooo...new iPod is a good reason to stay. They should give us that kind of motivation EVERY day. Oh, wait. It's called pay.

P-C, what everyone else said. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I'd try to work up a suggestion to ease your mother's fears, but I'm not sure anything would do that without wreaking havoc on the boundaries you need to create.

askye, without having seen the ad, I'd agree that it sounds like the imagery is pretty sexual. Assuming that Alicia Silverstone would still be considered sexy -- I haven't seen any pictures of her at all lately, so I wouldn't know.

The problem with getting upset about the ad is, sex sells. Or at least advertisers have decided that it does. And it's always been so, though admittedly full nudity is a recent development. And advertisers prefer to use sex to sell by relying on beautiful women more than beautiful men.

Maybe the answer is to suggest a comparable ad involving a celebrity male vegetarian.

Assuming that Alicia Silverstone would still be considered sexy -- I haven't seen any pictures of her at all lately, so I wouldn't know.

I think the deal is that she had gained "a lot" of weight and was considered not-sexy for a few years. So now her sexiness was rehabbed through the power of vegetarianism.

t random

If I had twins right now, I'd name them Tegan Isabel and Julian Charles.

t /random

I'm hoping you don't mean identical twins.

ETA: oops

Heeey, GC, by the way, I got The Con a few weeks ago. My favorite songs are "The Con," "Hop a Plane" (probably my most-listened-to off the album), "Back in Your Head," "Burn Your Life Down," and I think "Like O, Like H." I haven't totally gotten into it, but I like some songs.