Aaaaaah, morning.

[lierdumoa]

This week was...kind of ridiculous.

I sister called Wed. night and made me realize my parents a lot crazier than I ever let myself notice before. She originally called me because she was upset over a talk she had with my parents and couldn't sleep, and then after our conversation I couldn't sleep and ended up calling spaggel, then talking over the whole thing with my roommate, then finally getting to bed.

She really doesn't want to spend Christmas with them this year, so the plan is that I spend Christmas with her and then visit them for New Years.

There was the good aspect of our conversation. My sister got her first real job! The one with the good hours that she really wanted! She's going to be a patent lawyer. Her job is in Virginia and she's moving down right after graduation. She has a great boyfriend and she's going to have a good life and I'm so happy for her because she's a really great sister and she really deserves it.

My final project for my web design class was due yesterday. I procrastinated, but managed to get it done after pulling an all nighter, though unfortunately not working perfectly because I have Flash MX 2004 at home and Flash MX in class and some of the coding didn't transfer over. ::shakes fist at Macromedia:: My instructer was willing to cut me a break for that, thankfully. I ended up forgetting to do my laundry, then finally doing it and forgetting to wash socks and unable to find a bra. Rolled into class an hour late, and since it was just final presentations class was only two hours long in the first place. It all turned out alright, though.

Went in to talk to my admissions rep and set up a meeting for Monday. Managed to prove how very sleep deprived I was with the following conversation.

Me: Monday at 2:00. Write that down for me, would you?
Him: ::pulls out business card:: This okay?
Me: Yeah. I'll put it in my pocket and remember it again when I take my pants off.
Me: ...
Me: That was awfully frank, wasn't it?
Him: Yeah, it kinda was.

He wins the prize for nonreaction.

After class I went into the Borders, that's between my school and the bus stop. I read the first volume of Bleach because spaggel has been trying to pimp it to me for weeks. I liked it. She sent me the first episode. At this point, anyway, I'm liking the manga more than the anime.

I got back home, checked e-mail and f-list, went to sleep. Woke up three hours later, in time for the film club meeting. Went to that. permetaform and I ran out to get doughnuts, since I actually hadn't eaten all day. We then ran back to where the film club meeting was to watch this old black and white Japanese samurai film with some other film people. Can't remember the name of it now, but it was remade as Last Man Standing. Wherein this badass samurai finds this town made up mostly of two big gangs and both sides want him to fight for them so he plays them both.

I spent the first half of the movie with Kelis' "Milkshake" running through my head. I don't know if that's sleep deprivation or just my vidbrain and it's inability to turn off, like, ever.

Finally went to bed around 11:00. I've been having trouble falling asleep lately. Don't know what that's about. I had trouble falling asleep last night, and I'd only gotten three hours of it in an afternoon nap and none the night before. By rights I should have passed out the minute my head hit the pillow.

Woke up at 7:00. Wrote this post. Going to go vid now.



boniblithe, I got a package in the mail. Unfortunately the people who handle mail were not around so I don't know what the package is yet, but I'm fairly positive it's the Numb3rs episodes you sent me.

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[blackmeow.livejournal.com]

I've decided normal parents are not the norm. I had a similar moment Thursday night, talking to a friend about my Dad. It just kind of clicked how out there he really is. My Dad lives in a small, conservative Southern town, taught European history for years at the university and community college in the area, and claims to be a proponent of Communism/Buddhism/Animal Liberation. (He was crushed when he realized the Animal Liberation Front did not have a cell in the town he lived in. Insanely proud of his FBI file from the sixties.) He's completely illogical and inconsistent when it comes to how he runs his personal life; in short he's a bewildered mess.

Like you, I've been kind of in denial at the level of crazy my parents exhibit. Being eccentric when you get old is normal for Southerners, especially if you're in the academic elite. It's almost required of you. My Dad is what's known in the South as a character, the type of person people write short stories about. And at least he's left, you know, which for me at least helped with the denial, as I know quite a few people whose parents are crazy and right wing.

But I was talking to some friends, and it just hit me: My Dad's really well beyond eccentric. Well beyond. He's Tennessee Williams times two. I had that same 'whoa!' moment with my Mom when I went back home for my brother's wedding. Amazing how five years away from the ancestral home gives you a whole new perspective on your folks....

So, no point to this other than to validate you. Normal parents are apparently not the norm anymore. Maybe they never were.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I was discussing it with my roommate, and we decided there must be something about being given the power to form another human being that tends to fuck people up a bit.

[blackmeow.livejournal.com]

You know, that makes sense. Plus the fact that at least in American culture, the assumption is everyone knows how to parent, so many people don't approach it with the caution and practicality they do other new endeavors.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I don't know how applicable that is to my situation. Neither of my parents are American.

[blackmeow.livejournal.com]

Right, I remember, I was thinking more in terms of my folks. They belong to the generation that just kind of had kids because that's what adults do, without fuss or fanfare. Although I think being parents was kind of incidental to their nuttiness.
My Dad's coming out in July, and he's excited beyond belief at getting to attend a Buddhist ceremony and eat vegetarian food in a real, vegetarian restaurant. He is so going to scare the heck out of everyone there. Yikes.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Whew!

I have 3 more eps to send but I was waiting to see if I was going to have to re-send the first 6, so if that's them then I'll be able to send the rest with a feeling of relative security.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yep! That's them. Just finished watching them.

[permetaform]

from here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/voleuse/583693.html

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[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Vin Diesel mysteriously disappeared four years ago, only to show up at the US Embassy in Guatamala, bearing the head of Medusa. When asked how he killed her, he vaguely replied, "A quarter mile at a time...a quarter mile at a time..."

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