Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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 - May 01, 2008 12:37:20 pm PDT #4542 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, wait. I found the motherlode! I just have to share two with you people:

I'm cc'ed on this one, to someone who was moving to NYC

Hi, [other person] --

Best of luck in your move to NYC. I hope you quickly find a job and that your honey turns out to be all you hope for in a partner!

My daughter, Jesse, just got laid off, so would have time for coffee! She is at [address]. Phone .

Thanks, mom. And then:

Subject: A shocking story!

Hi, J--

Here's something i meant to tell you and forgot. At the XXX conference, I sat at dinner next to a young AA named [name]. She was quite outspoken, unusually so for a Foundation staff-er especially a young one (she won't last long!). Anyway, at one point --and I did NOT start this! --she asked me if i knew about Dan Savage!! Actually, she called his column, Love Savage, and i corrected her. she thought i was amazingly cool for even knowing who he is! Then, she brought up "santorum" as a verb or lower case noun, or something, but then refused to tell me what it meant--finally grossed herself out, I guess! So, I googled it. She said it would be one of the first entries, and she was right. And, it was too gross to describe! Still, I am astonished that she even brought it up!

So, you just never know what kind of conversation you will have at a boring conference!

And, another amazing conversation i had was with the ED of the _____ association. she started telling me how she bugged her daughter to start working toward getting married and has her husband praying with her toward the same end ("two good jobs and one good black man" !) It turns out her daughter is 23!!! I told her to give the woman a break, and then to call you so you would know how good I am!

Hope these give you some chuckles for the day!

xoxox

MOM


Theodosia - May 01, 2008 12:42:42 pm PDT #4543 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Heh.


sarameg - May 01, 2008 12:45:23 pm PDT #4544 of 10001

Snerk.

I get occasional emails from one or the other of the parents that I suspect to an outsider would sound goofy, but it's normal in my family to get emails with subject lines like "lizard tails?tales"


Daisy Jane - May 01, 2008 12:45:37 pm PDT #4545 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

My daughter, Jesse, just got laid off, so would have time for coffee! She is at [address]. Phone .

Awesome!


Tamara - May 01, 2008 12:47:30 pm PDT #4546 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.

My mom only emails if several calls go unreturned and/or if she wants to lay down a serious guilt trip about something.

I guess she forwards Obama political messages as well.


§ ita § - May 01, 2008 12:51:37 pm PDT #4547 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Now I miss my mum and want her to send me dippy email. But we do speak more than once a week.


sarameg - May 01, 2008 12:51:53 pm PDT #4548 of 10001

I get maybe one email from mom a month that isn't in response to something I've sent her. Dad, well, his are mostly work related.


Kathy A - May 01, 2008 12:58:49 pm PDT #4549 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I very rarely get e-mail from Mom. One of the last times she sent me one, she got cute and wrote it in that oh-so-annoying text-speak "just to be funny." I sent her back an e-mail demanding that she never do that to me again because I think it's just a horrible way to communicate, and she hasn't. She did call to tell me to lighten up, but I told her she helped to pay for my English degree, so she shouldn't send me stuff like that.


amych - May 01, 2008 1:01:51 pm PDT #4550 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

My mom's emails are fairly well-written, but she has a really distressing tendency to bury the lede -- "I've been meaning to ask if you guys know such-and-so from the fencing world. He fences foil and he's a freshman at Yale -- I didn't think you would because of the location, but I figured you probably know people who know him, anyway. His dad is my hand surgeon and I told him I'd ask. Oh, I broke my hand falling off a barstool!"


Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2008 1:02:53 pm PDT #4551 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I need to go see my folks this week. Presumably on a day less headache-tastic.

One of the great things about dating guys is that my folks are supportive without ever wanting to know any details or pressuring me to settle down. Of course, I have had to fight the "If you want grandchildren, adopt another kid that likes children" battle since my late teens mercilessly.