Yay, raise!
Yay, good interview!
I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss, but it's good her brother was able to be with her at the end.
And Tom, I too see progress with you, and just the fact that you're able to express it with us is a big deal. Keep plugging away.
10 greatest TV pilots:
- Twin Peaks
- My So Called Life
- Hill Street Blues
- The Westerner
- Star Trek
- The Sopranos
- Miami Vice
- Lost
- 24
- Homicide: Life On The Streets
I think that's a pretty good list of shows that came out of the cage swinging (I'm pretty sure I fucked up that metaphor). Never seen The Westerner, though, so I can't comment on that. But all the rest were very "Whoa. What are you doing here? What are we in for?" even if they never delivered on the promise, or devolved into parodies of themselves (yeah, Bauer, I'm looking at you).
Completely unrelatedly, go you, Tom. I think not remembering is perfectly normal under average circumstances, and even more so under yours. I wish it didn't have to be hard for you, because you don't deserve hard things, but if wishes were horses, well, I'd be really irritated, because how many horses do you need, and how does that help Scola?
Yay, Suzi!!!!! That's wonderful!
Tom, what Teppy said.
I don't remember large swaths of my childhood, but I always assumed that meant I had a dull childhood, except for especially interesting vacations or seeing a deer a close range back in the hills and such. I've got a highlights reel, not a transcript.
This is me. I remember highlights, but not day-to-day stuff.
This is me. I remember highlights, but not day-to-day stuff.
I think very few people can remember their day-to-day stuff of their childhood.
I've always found memory very fascinating, even before I was old enough to attend school. I remember when I was about four, wondering why I remembered some stuff on some days but not other days. I figured out that having an emotional reaction to something that happened was the reason people remembered old stuff as opposed to just forgetting it.
I remember various scenes and images from my childhood, but little else at this point. Although for some of it I wonder whether it was real or not.
Scola, you're the bravest man I've ever met.
What I remember as very specific instances where the conversations seem very clear to me and even visuals from the rooms or clothing - those are the early childhood memories people most often dispute with me. It seems how I remember things at that age was not so often the reality.
As for lost memories, whole chunks of college are in an alcohol fog. Do not remember classes, people, or events from whole chunks of Junior year.
Although for some of it I wonder whether it was real or not.
ha! Yes, I have that too. Apparently my childhood dreams and memories feel the same. I can apply logic to some of them - for instance, I am fairly certain that my parents did not allow us to form a human chain down into the storm drain to retrieve a tennis ball.
I remember various scenes and images from my childhood, but little else at this point. Although for some of it I wonder whether it was real or not.
When I was younger I was really proud of how far back I could remember. Like I remember stuff from when I was 2 or 3 and still sleeping in a crib in my parents' bedroom. Except I think I'm just remembering remembering that stuff at this point....
I read somewhere that every time you remember something, the memories can change. Memory is weird, and not as trustworthy as most people think.