Woo Hoo for permanent ita! Here's hoping you feel better so that you can enjoy it properly.

It was lovely to read about your visit with family, sarameg. I also have tons of family that I just don't see enough. People I really like and enjoy, and never see.

I really don't get constructing an intricate falsehood like that.

My (close family member) found out after being married for a while and having a child that every single thing he thought he knew about his wife was a fabrication. They had hit a bad financial stretch and he asked if maybe they could ask her parents for a bit of cash since her father was a doctor and her mother owned a grocery store. She broke down and admitted she didn't even know her father and that her mother worked in a grocery store. He had known her for a decade and didn't have a clue. It was huge because she had thrown her 'status' in his face forever. He only stayed with her because he is a dedicated father.

After time I know that it was a matter of her being hugely insecure as a young woman and then she didn't know how to undo the lies. She has grown as a person and I don't despise her anymore, but I can't say I totally trust her either. The part that kills me the most is that over the years her mother has learned more English and I have spoken with her at family events and found her to be a wonderful person. Her lies to her husband and the rest of the family and friends was bad enough, but she dishonored her mother by fabricating her family history. Her mother was a hard working immigrant that worked hard all her life to give her daughter a better life. (yeah, I guess I still haven't forgiven her)

Also, why is it only Wednesday?

Also, why is it only Wednesday?

That is an excellent question. By all rights it ought to be Friday or Saturday by now.

At some point, you have to wonder if it wouldn't have been easier just to apply to med school...

heh.

This week is completely long. It's like two weeks mushed into one. Does July have an extra week or something?

Panel 5 is just for Teppy:

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It's something in the air, I think. Hardly any of my coworkers are in yet this morning, which is not normal, and god knows I feel like I've already had a week this week, for no good reason.

Congrats ita. This has been a long-time coming. Sorry work is kicking your ass, but it's ass-kicking with benefits, right?

Also, something is definitely up with this week, because I could have sworn it was Thursday when I got up this morning. Very dis-heartened to find it was only Weds. Bleh.

because I could have sworn it was Thursday when I got up this morning.

someone must be messing with the time-space continuum.

Gud? MM? Jilli? ... Owen?

eta: ... sorry - I obviously need more coffee in order to be funny.

Weird lying is weird. My high school girlfriend used to make up these weird lies... like she told me she had cancer and had to have all these painful spinal taps as part of her treatment. She said her parents didn't know about it - there was a doctor who was treating her who was writing it off as research. And she would get very angry and insistent if anyone ever doubted her stories.

And I knew a girl in college who told people she was Jewish (raised as an Orthodox Jews in New York) and that she had been gang-raped by a group of Arab men while in Israel. Turns out none of it was true - she was raised Catholic in Milwaukee.

The part that kills me the most is that over the years her mother has learned more English and I have spoken with her at family events and found her to be a wonderful person. Her lies to her husband and the rest of the family and friends was bad enough, but she dishonored her mother by fabricating her family history. Her mother was a hard working immigrant that worked hard all her life to give her daughter a better life. (yeah, I guess I still haven't forgiven her)

Was she (pardon the term) illegitimate? I can see how that could be shameful to the degree at certain times and places to make one fabricate like that. That kind of pain can be epic.

(Though I still wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her)

Panel 5 is just for Teppy:

I am impressed by the semi-colon, and it often tempts me to sexual congress!