Well, at least the ridiculous expectations and strange judgment isn't overly sexist, Matt. Thanks.
Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Tamara - May 08, 2008 12:33:37 pm PDT #5745 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
megan walker - May 08, 2008 12:37:26 pm PDT #5746 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jilli & Plei that may be one of the best photos ever.
Almost as adorable as Pete!
Vortex - May 08, 2008 12:40:38 pm PDT #5747 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yep. I guess I'm destined to be a sad cautionary tale.
oooh! Come sit by me, we'll start a club!
aurelia - May 08, 2008 1:03:12 pm PDT #5748 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
oooh! Come sit by me, we'll start a club!
Cool!
Ginger - May 08, 2008 1:09:29 pm PDT #5749 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My impression has been that if your parenting doesn't have moments when you think about leaving the child in a basket on the church steps, you're not doing it right. I'd be kind of scared of someone so immersed in the cult of parenthood that they remain cheery in the face of no sleep or a toddler who can hit that really high note when crying.
aurelia - May 08, 2008 1:09:54 pm PDT #5750 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
This sounds interesting.
Innocence is destroyed. Allegiances are betrayed. War rages.
As Told by the Vivian Girls draws inspiration from the illustrations and 15,000-plus pages of renowned Chicago outsider artist Henry Darger, a recluse who lived in Lincoln Park and shared his art with no one. His imagination overflowed in his prolific stories and drawings, The Realms of the Unreal, where little girls battle against child slavery.
In this choose-your-own-adventure staging, audience members move throughout the entire facility of Theater on the Lake creating their own experience. The audience follows 15 characters on separate, overlapping journeys through celebrations, conflicts of faith and acts of war that culminate in a selection of two simultaneous endings.
Sheryl - May 08, 2008 1:35:58 pm PDT #5751 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I think I'm glad I didn't hear that story about early motherhood.
Signed, My college boyfirnds would have been =bad= husbands for me, and I didn't date for most of my 20s.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 08, 2008 1:58:46 pm PDT #5752 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
Sunny Day smoothie, why do you turn evil and hurt me so after tasting so delicious?
sarameg - May 08, 2008 2:07:52 pm PDT #5753 of 10001
Though it was completely accidental, my brother having kids while in undergrad/grad school has worked ok for him & his wife. They have a time flexibility when the kids are little that they won't have in a few years. However, they are really barely scraping by financially on a grad student salary and P's (appallingly low) day care salary (which does get a great discount on childcare! They couldn't afford it otherwise.) D starts kinder this fall, and the next few years are post-doc'ing, which means a lot of moves in his elementary years.
And then there are my parents. Their main timing driver was...they didn't have health care insurance until my dad got the tenure track position. Exciting, huh?!
Jessica - May 08, 2008 2:26:05 pm PDT #5754 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and how if you were only doing it right, you too could have an unattended waterbirth while whales sang to you
I could have had WHALES?
t furiously taking notes for pregnancy #2...
(Though the "unattended" part doesn't sound all that great - I'm more than happy to have someone else wash the gunk off before they hand the kid back to me.)
I hope she find out that it doesn't have to be this way, and that joking about throwing the baby out the window or leaving it with strangers is not normal.
Man, I'm doing everything wrong.
I'd be kind of scared of someone so immersed in the cult of parenthood that they remain cheery in the face of no sleep or a toddler who can hit that really high note when crying.
As Betsy HP used to say, that woman is on her back porch drinking gin out of the catfood dish when you're not looking.