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Sun 27 May 2007, 10:47 pm
Fellow carping nerdboy Josh Neff tagged me for the eight random things meme. So here we go, getting random. First thought, best thought:
- I’m marking this up as an ordered list
- I find myself incapable of watching almost anything on TV, with the frequent exception of Scrubs. I can’t follow sports anymore, dislike watching movies, etc. It’s weird, and I don’t like it.
- My older son Luke has been interested in rockets for a year or more now, and his interest has awakened an interest for me, too. I find the manned space program oddly moving, and am somtimes moved to tears when watching launches or sometimes when just thinking about the Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo missions.
- If I had my schooling to do over again, I’d learn a foreign language really well.
- I lost my cool at the public library this weekend, calling a person who made a comment about my loud children a “passive-aggressive bitch.” I regret the incident.
- When typing the last sentence, I mentally chanted the high school sports cheer “B-E / A-G-G / R-E-S-S-I-V-E!” I went to a lot of sporting events in high school.
- As I mentioned in the Library Society of the World chatroom recently, I had a perm sometimes in high school, and grew my hair past my shoulders in college and again after college. I’ll scan some photos someday.
- As an only child with only two first cousins with whom I have spent almost no time, I find large families with deep family ties off-putting. Which is a strange prejudice, but I suppose all prejudices are.
OK, that’s a fairly off-putting list, but that’s how things go sometimes. I don’t believe in meme-tagging, so I’ll leave it at that.
- License:
- File under: Navel gazing
- Comments? 6
Well, I am more or less an only child, but I’m very fond of my extended family–although I’ll grant you that many of them are not really related to me (e.g. my mother’s father’s stepsisters’ daughters, a.k.a. cousins Ann, Laurel, and Leslie).
Comment by Laura — May 28, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
Yeah, Laura, it really is a weird prejudice. Not sure what made me think of it, let alone cop to it in public!
Comment by Steve Lawson — May 28, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
I’m an only child, too, but find large, close families kind of fascinating, mysterious and exotic.
TV is just Mythbusters at this point, to which the whole family is addicted. Well, and Red Sox. But that’s all. Honest.
Haven’t called anyone a bitch (out loud) for commenting about my daughter, but I did confront a stranger who was talking about my daughter –in the parent waiting area of a karate place, how clueless can someone be not to realize that a parent might be there? — and she apologized.
Agree on the foreign language. Instead of learning one well, I learned six poorly. I’d also take a job in my twenties that involved great gobs of foreign travel.
This is therapeutic… thanks.
Comment by Robin — May 29, 2007 @ 8:55 am
I only know that chant from the Faith No More song. I’ve never been one for sporting events.
Comment by rachel — May 29, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
I agree with you on the large family thing. Any family gathering with more than 6-8 people is too big. Deep ties, that’s another matter. It’s ideal when family equals close friend.
Comment by phyllis — May 29, 2007 @ 2:02 pm
[...] children). And all of our layers of family are very close (though not in a spacial sense) So unlike Steve, I find gatherings of 40-odd related people to be quite normal, if a little [...]
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