I am not an H. Sarah is not me. Funny how that is.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
sarameg - Apr 04, 2011 5:26:25 pm PDT #1691 of 30001
Amy - Apr 04, 2011 5:27:53 pm PDT #1692 of 30001
Because books.
Funny how that is.
Isn't it? My mom and my Sara are definitely no H girls.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 5:34:52 pm PDT #1693 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, I want my snippy TWC tech back. This chick is useless. Do they have macro buttons for inanities? If she expresses sympathy one more time, or calls us a team, I will need to take a walk.
beekaytee - Apr 04, 2011 5:50:47 pm PDT #1694 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Re-entry stress (the industry term for reverse culture shock) was my specialty in my OD masters. When I casually mentioned my own experience, melting down in the cereal aisle of a grocery store, my cross-cultural comm professor chirped, "80% of the time, it's the cereal aisle."
It was a weirdly encouraging and confirming to hear how common the phenomenon is.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 5:52:19 pm PDT #1695 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::nods::
There wasn't a lot of cereal around when I was growing up.
smonster - Apr 04, 2011 5:55:15 pm PDT #1696 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I think for me, it was yogurt or shampoo. But I get it being the cereal aisle.
sarameg - Apr 04, 2011 5:57:31 pm PDT #1697 of 30001
Bread aisle. Because there was so much good bread in Prague, all 3 or 4 bakeries, meaning 12 ft of 3 or 4 varieties. And Smith's had a bajillion and none looked good.
Amy - Apr 04, 2011 5:59:45 pm PDT #1698 of 30001
Because books.
The cereal aisle freaks *me* out, and I've never been out of the country. Too. many. choices.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 6:00:26 pm PDT #1699 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For me, it's still the fruits and vegetable section. It's fucking Greek to me. I don't know what most of that shit is, and some of the stuff I'm supposed to know, like mangoes, is still weird.
Twenty years hasn't fixed that. And at the rate I expand my plant horizons, not changing any time soon.
beekaytee - Apr 04, 2011 6:00:35 pm PDT #1700 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I remember standing there, completely awash in the obscenity of 200 types of cereal when so many go without so much. I think the sensory overload really did me in too. So much color, so many shapes. So, very loud, visually speaking.