Not that anyone actually reads the damn thing, but

[aliothsan]

My mom wrote up a long-winded paragraph about my first year at MIT -- during which I did absolutely NOTHING of note!! -- and sent it to the alumni association for my high school. I now have three column-inches devoted to me and my year of nothing in the alumni updates. This is way, way more than anyone else (and usually only three or so people per

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[skuffle]

For waht it's worth, I never thought you were the attention-grubbing sort.

[aliothsan]

Really? Read this entry again. What does it say to you that I'm making such a mountain out of such a molehill?

[skuffle]

I would hardly consider an entry on your LJ to be a mountain. Now, maybe if you got into a big fight with your mom about it...

(I mean, maybe this is just the way I regard LJ entries, though.)

[timprov]

You are soooooo not an attention whore.

You're also going to have to deal with the fact that other people's standards of notability are much lower than yours for your entire life. Sorry.

[aliothsan]

Please explain second sentence? I can't parse it for some reason.

[timprov]

Other people are always going to find the things you do more impressive than you think they are. Thus you get three column inches for doing "nothing." This will undoubtedly continue, because your standards for yourself are so high.

[aliothsan]

Perhaps this is true in general, but in this instance not so.

[arujei]

Alumni updates? Shit son, I didn't even know those existed. Please tell me there ain't nothing on me in there?

Just ask her not to do it again. Say that you would prefer to let yourself be obscure for a little while. Considering your mother, that might not work, but it's worth a shot.

[aliothsan]

They're in the back of the Menlo Magazine. Mostly it's updated email addresses, reunion reminders, and notices of marriages, babies, and deaths.

[aliothsan]

All very well, but this is not *news*.