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!

The man at the garage who repeatedly calls me "hon" on the phone does not endear himself to me. ::growls::

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.

I don't know if I will ever know the whole story. I think that now that she is a working mother herself she may have a new respect for her mother. She was raised in a community filled with poor immigrants and no doubt made up the stories of her parents' wealth to present herself as someone better in her mind. I hope that some day she can take pride in her mother's accomplishments and her own. She is an RN with a masters degree and her mom now is retired and lives in her house. It bugs because for years we had to hear how she would live like a princess with servants if she went back to her home country. Your mom came to America and gave you a better life! Be proud, not delusional.

Peoples is strange.

someone must be messing with the time-space continuum.

Gud? MM? Jilli? ... Owen?

I assure you I have not been hooking up a micro fusion reactor to a flux capacitor and using the outputs to synchronize a pulse graviton emitter and tachyon array. Nope, definitely not doing that.