'Potential'
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.
Most of my issues revolve around the fact that I'm not Tina Fey.
Most of mine revolve around the fact that I didn't have M.F.K. Fisher's life, minus the husband dying of a horrible disease.
I once got everything together but I forgot where I put it. (I'm here all week. Try the veal.)
Oh, I want to be Miss Marple too. I guess it's my goal for when I am old.
I think I mostly feel bad about the fact that I'm not a good employee. Even with not being able to visit LJ and DW and b.org on the work computer, I spend a lot of time fucking around at work. On the other hand, I get shit done. So.
I want to be Trixie Belden. ETA: Or perhaps Hercule Poirot.
They just do all of the talking and never ask for my opinion or about my experience or anything.
... oh, wait, that's not me, right, because I definitely recall you telling me some stories the last time we went out. Whew!
OTOH, I tend to assume people are reserved if they don't volunteer, and then I spend my energy filling the silence, because you know me, I can talk to a rock. (They said that about me in law school: "You know Consuela? She can have a conversation with a rock." It's not entirely a compliment, I suspect... *grins*)
... which, I just realized, I made the post All About Me. Way to go! oy.
One aspect of my having children is, I took one for the team. My sister is off the hook! I also got married for the team (as in, had an actual wedding; the choice to marry was mine, but if we hadn't had to think of family, we would have done it in an office.) I am counting on these sacrifices absolving me of dealing with my mother when she gets to need dealing with. Well, that and the consistently living 10+ hours away.
Why do you hate America?
That was my French half talking?
How a mix of female empowerment and steamy soap operas helped bring down Brazil’s fertility rate and stoke its vibrant economy.
The Brazilian fertility rate is 1.9.
That new Brazilian fertility rate is below the level at which a population replaces itself. It is lower than the two-children-per-woman fertility rate in the United States. In the largest nation in Latin America—a 191-million-person country where the Roman Catholic Church dominates, abortion is illegal (except in rare cases), and no official government policy has ever promoted birth control—family size has dropped so sharply and so insistently over the past five decades that the fertility rate graph looks like a playground slide.
Longish, interesting article.
... which, I just realized, I made the post All About Me. Way to go! oy.
Ha! And no, not to worry, I was not writing about you.
They just do all of the talking and never ask for my opinion or about my experience or anything.
My neighbor is a perfect example of Fran Lebowitz's "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
My neighbor is a perfect example of Fran Lebowitz's "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Great way to put it.