fun to do, not to hear....

[dondlion]

When I was fifteen, I got a temporary job over my Christmas holiday operating a jackhammer for my biology teacher, Mr Crisman. I had never done it, but loved, loved loved it. It was exhausting, but nothing beats destroying for a fifteen year old boy. I always grin when I think of that week. I earned enough money to buy my mother a nice

Comments

[coollibrarian]

Unless your future brother-in-law is a serious physical or emotional threat to your sister, go.

[dondlion]

My sister has been happily married for seven years. I am thinking here of my friend whose brother got married again yesterday. He cheated on first wife and dumped her, even though she was a good one by all accounts. His family hasn't really forgiven him. I think they all went.

[coollibrarian]

Ah that's a tricky situation then. I didn't think you would skip your sister's wedding.

[dondlion]

No, we all get along pretty well. Her in-laws, well, that's a different story. All I can say is that Harvard and domestic abuse are not mutually exclusive.

[coollibrarian]

*oh*

[dondlion]

oh, indeed.