So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Typo Boy - Mar 01, 2011 5:09:36 pm PST #25893 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Eleven year old daughter of a friend: "Elementary school girls tend to find dogs cute and as an elementary school girl, I find dogs cute--especially little ones." pause. "According to a study at Harvard...."

At that point Daddy was laughing too hard for her to continue. After that, according to her Daddy: "Then she engaged me in discussion on hearing loss and decibel levels, followed by the Bechdel test (Hannah Montana passes)."


sarameg - Mar 01, 2011 5:14:00 pm PST #25894 of 30001

OK, now he's got his nose pressed to the old school phone jack (4 holes.) Hrm.

It's weird being the only grownup commenting on my teen's posts. And the only one not using chatspeak. And then having my comment "liked" by a lot of her friends. I DO feel terribly adult, witnessing all that teenage drama, but don't feel like I've got any street cred but I was one, anyway. And lord knows it felt So Important at the time. And really, maybe they like having an adult who isn't an authority figure. Who is a ...role model, without authority? Heeeheehee!


SuziQ - Mar 01, 2011 5:21:05 pm PST #25895 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Good going sara! I think all teens need someone like you in their lives.


Cass - Mar 01, 2011 5:36:28 pm PST #25896 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Eleven year old daughter of a friend

Sounds like an awesome small human!

And really, maybe they like having an adult who isn't an authority figure. Who is a ...role model, without authority? Heeeheehee!

So true. I think it's why I am a good aunt. Even when I have some authority*, I am not an authority figure.

*Still can't make Nephlet do his fucking math homework...


sarameg - Mar 01, 2011 5:36:46 pm PST #25897 of 30001

I never thought I'd relate to teens. And honestly, I see mobs of them and even overhearing them, I want to scream. But this is my teen and her friends. I adjust, I am changed.


amych - Mar 01, 2011 5:37:48 pm PST #25898 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Sara, I'm fb friends with a few of the teen fencers, and it's very much the same kind of vibe. It's a little weird being the only adult in the room sometimes, but role model without authority isn't a bad thing to be.


§ ita § - Mar 01, 2011 5:39:45 pm PST #25899 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

At krav I got to be the adult that told the teens how the world worked. So when M went off to university, she got random vibrators and sex books in the mail from me, and her mother was very happy about it.


sarameg - Mar 01, 2011 5:40:38 pm PST #25900 of 30001

It's a little weird being the only adult in the room sometimes

I'm SO GLAD there was no fb when I was a teen. It's all in my journals, and NO ONE got to read those. OMG, the drama! The hormones!


§ ita § - Mar 01, 2011 5:53:14 pm PST #25901 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Pessimist's mug.


-t - Mar 01, 2011 5:59:45 pm PST #25902 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I like the glass, but I am confused by the disclaimer.