being the one who can't come home for Thanksgiving. I haven't been home for T-Day in at least 4 years, probably more.11 years+
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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omnis_audis - Nov 23, 2007 12:07:10 pm PST #5428 of 10002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
meara - Nov 23, 2007 12:10:37 pm PST #5429 of 10002
Haven't been home for Thanksgiving since freshman year of college, so...11 years?
SonusExMachina - Nov 23, 2007 12:20:02 pm PST #5430 of 10002
BOOK: "River..? Please, why don't you come
on out..." RIVER: "No. Can't. Too much hair." - 'Jaynestown'
In undergrad it was fairly easy to get home, as home was only 100-ish miles away. In grad school it got harder, but I made it home most years, despite the 700+ mile drive home from MO. Then came A Christmas Carol in Kansas City. And then Into The Woods in Palo Alto, and now, my second year of ACC here in SoCal. Such is a life in the arts: we work while everyone else is playing.
NoiseDesign - Nov 23, 2007 12:22:10 pm PST #5431 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
I prefer not going home to see my family at Thanksgiving, it's part of the reason I took this design. I'm just tired of the guilt trip calls and feeling like I'm letting them down.
When I go home for holidays I'm miserable, but when I don't go I get the guilt trip and feeling useless because I'm supposed to want to see my family. I just feel like there is something wrong with me for not really having a desire to spend time with them.
Laura - Nov 23, 2007 12:23:49 pm PST #5432 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Stop beating yourself up about it, ND. You don't suck. It sucks that spending time with your family is crazy making and painful. But that suck isn't your fault. Those that care about you, and that would include me, would much rather see you having a fun Thanksgiving with loved ones in the few moments you have free.
meara - Nov 23, 2007 12:26:50 pm PST #5433 of 10002
Thanksgiving would probably be a lot easier to handle with my family than Christmas, but given the pain of travelling around then, and the fact that it's normal to spend Thanksgiving with friends or strangers, and Christmas NSM....well, the one time a year I go home is always Christmas.
omnis_audis - Nov 23, 2007 12:30:30 pm PST #5434 of 10002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
As you grow older, away from childhood, family is thems that welcome you and show warmth, love, and compassion. If rearing goes well, it will include the same folks as you spent your childhood with. But, if there is asshatery, then they reap what they sow. If they don't like the fact you don't want to spend time with them, it seems they are displacing their guilt for not treating you with love on to you. It's not your fault. As my pappy so delicately says, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke".
DCJensen - Nov 23, 2007 12:55:09 pm PST #5435 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
SonusExMachina - Nov 23, 2007 12:55:38 pm PST #5436 of 10002
BOOK: "River..? Please, why don't you come
on out..." RIVER: "No. Can't. Too much hair." - 'Jaynestown'
Arrgh. Gronk is the word for today. Feeling laggy and mildly blah. I need to go running after work or something, to get this crap out of my system.
Laga - Nov 23, 2007 1:07:41 pm PST #5437 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
...gronk is the word it's the word that you heard...