the friend said to R.'s mother that L. could do much better than me
*Cuddy-smack!* What an incredibly rude thing to say!
I have never been to Long Island, but I imagine everyone who lives there dresses in whites like in The Great Gatsby, drinks cocktails, and golfs. Simultaneously.
You know, I don't remember. I'm thinking I didn't....
And the people you're picturing live mostly in the wealthiest communities along the north shore and out east in the Hamptons where the movie stars holiday. The majority of the rest are just loud and obnoxious. :) This is why I don't go outside if I can help it.
Heh. I go to NYC and hope that, like moonlash_cc, I'll randomly run into RSL at the theater. Twice.
You know, I don't know how the Hamptons became a Destination, other than that wealthy people from the city used to take weekends out in "the country," back when it was a good day's drive out there (now it's more like 2-3 hours). Best history of the area (cum tourism pitch) I could find with five minutes' searching (Wikipedia failed me!) was this: http://www.easthampton.com/history/index.html
I have a diametrically opposed memory for making an unwarranted impression on an outsider. I was a freshman in high school and was visiting Washington, DC, staying with a friend of the family (one of those "aunts" who aren't really aunts). She worked in the State Department, so one weekday afternoon I went out to lunch with her and a group of her buddies from State in one of the nearby trendy restaurants.
I don't recall exactly what the conversation was about, other than it was obviously political and/or foreign affairs oriented, but I made a pithy remark that really impressed everyone at the table. Their reaction made me very uncomfortable, however, because after that one remark they all expected me to make profound and witty comments in as few words as possible, and sort of made a game out of it. But the original remark had been a fluke, and I felt really put on the spot and unable to live up to their expectations.
*waves to Miranda* I went and listened to The Decemberists' "We Both Go Down Together" after I saw your icon this afternoon. :)
Aaaah, how stressful. I was going to ask whether you were mentally exaggerating their expectations, but then you said they made a game out of it. I repeat: aaaah! Do you think they realized the moral they'd just taught you was not to be witty or incisive or else you'd be pressured into it forevermore?
How's the weather up there? It's been raining (surprise!) all day, and went from steady drizzle to windy downpour a few hours ago.
College: I've been to a ridiculous number of colleges and never fit in anywhere: when I was younger I was far too naive (and the film students were seriously pretentious) and when I was older I was the only one married, and then I was the only one married and with a kid. :-) The funny thing is that I used to be very, very under-educated in comparison to my peer group (based on number of movies seen) and now I've swung the other way and nobody's seen the movies I have. <3 <3 But I try not to be a jerk about it. (Although my girlfriend gave me a Seattle International Film Festival membership for our anniversary, and she said that my peculiar taste in films is one of the things she loves about me. I guess it all works out. It's just peculiar
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Ha! Congratulations. I remember soda bottle rocket competitions (just our class) in tech/shop, and a second egg drop/protection competition in physics. Thing was, we didn't really learn aerodynamics or impact cushioning ahead of time, so we just sort of winged it (heh).
And as for your college tale, I think many of us who congregate in fandom are sadly used to not fitting in anywhere, for whatever reasons. You definitely have my sympathy! That's cool that you've ended up surpassing your peers, though. What sort of peculiar films do you like? Or is it more a peculiar combination?
I'm going to be seeing Sunflower in the next couple of months. Haven't heard of the rest of them. That makes me sad; in my college days (she said, as if they were oh so long ago), I used to be pretty up on the indie/foreign films as they showed up on the movie theater listings.
I was in kindergarten, I think, or maybe I was a little older, but not by much. I needed to pee so I headed for the bathroom where I found my mother cleaning the toilet. I crinkled my nose and declared I never wanted to clean a toilet in my whole life. My mother told me I'd have to one day and I insisted I never would. "Well, it's not going to clean itself and I'm not going to come to your house to clean for you," she told me. I said she wouldn't have to because I'd be rich and famous and I'd hire someone to clean my toilets and hers, so she wouldn't have to either! She sneered and me and said, "You'll never be able to afford a maid."
17 - Hidden talentsI've never been very big on video games. Most of the stuff I play is in the puzzle/strategy category. Every once in a while I venture into the realm of platform games but that's really about it. My nephews, on the other hand, are huuuuuuge fans of gaming. They love racing games, fighting games, first-person shooters... Any kind of action game,
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MY recent Ex, Kevin, comes from a fairly conservative family. They didn't think I was good enough to date him, even though they barely thought he was good enough to be part of the family. At one point, his sister had printed out my MySpace page (where It was stated that I was Bi, Pagan, Liberal voting Democrat, and an interest in BDSM) and passed it around a family dinner. Another time, his aunt thought that some porn star named Savannah was me, and was telling everyone that I was a "Lesbian Dominatrix Porn Star Witch." I'm still really good friends with the guy (we lived together for a year after all!) and his family STILL doesn't particularly like me
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*Cuddy-smack!* What an incredibly rude thing to say!
I have never been to Long Island, but I imagine everyone who lives there dresses in whites like in The Great Gatsby, drinks cocktails, and golfs. Simultaneously.
Well, *did* you make it onto the news?
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And the people you're picturing live mostly in the wealthiest communities along the north shore and out east in the Hamptons where the movie stars holiday. The majority of the rest are just loud and obnoxious. :) This is why I don't go outside if I can help it.
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Why do they go there in particular? I am sure it is beautiful on Long Island; it is just for R & R?
If you don't go outside, how will you see the movie stars?!?!
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You know, I don't know how the Hamptons became a Destination, other than that wealthy people from the city used to take weekends out in "the country," back when it was a good day's drive out there (now it's more like 2-3 hours). Best history of the area (cum tourism pitch) I could find with five minutes' searching (Wikipedia failed me!) was this: http://www.easthampton.com/history/index.html
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I don't recall exactly what the conversation was about, other than it was obviously political and/or foreign affairs oriented, but I made a pithy remark that really impressed everyone at the table. Their reaction made me very uncomfortable, however, because after that one remark they all expected me to make profound and witty comments in as few words as possible, and sort of made a game out of it. But the original remark had been a fluke, and I felt really put on the spot and unable to live up to their expectations.
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Aaaah, how stressful. I was going to ask whether you were mentally exaggerating their expectations, but then you said they made a game out of it. I repeat: aaaah! Do you think they realized the moral they'd just taught you was not to be witty or incisive or else you'd be pressured into it forevermore?
How's the weather up there? It's been raining (surprise!) all day, and went from steady drizzle to windy downpour a few hours ago.
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The weather has been mostly sleet, rain, and wind. I'll be very happy if it stays that way, too! I'm tired of shoveling snow.
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I've been to a ridiculous number of colleges and never fit in anywhere: when I was younger I was far too naive (and the film students were seriously pretentious) and when I was older I was the only one married, and then I was the only one married and with a kid. :-) The funny thing is that I used to be very, very under-educated in comparison to my peer group (based on number of movies seen) and now I've swung the other way and nobody's seen the movies I have. <3 <3 But I try not to be a jerk about it. (Although my girlfriend gave me a Seattle International Film Festival membership for our anniversary, and she said that my peculiar taste in films is one of the things she loves about me. I guess it all works out. It's just peculiar ( ... )
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And as for your college tale, I think many of us who congregate in fandom are sadly used to not fitting in anywhere, for whatever reasons. You definitely have my sympathy! That's cool that you've ended up surpassing your peers, though. What sort of peculiar films do you like? Or is it more a peculiar combination?
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I was in kindergarten, I think, or maybe I was a little older, but not by much. I needed to pee so I headed for the bathroom where I found my mother cleaning the toilet. I crinkled my nose and declared I never wanted to clean a toilet in my whole life. My mother told me I'd have to one day and I insisted I never would. "Well, it's not going to clean itself and I'm not going to come to your house to clean for you," she told me. I said she wouldn't have to because I'd be rich and famous and I'd hire someone to clean my toilets and hers, so she wouldn't have to either! She sneered and me and said, "You'll never be able to afford a maid."
17 - Hidden talentsI've never been very big on video games. Most of the stuff I play is in the puzzle/strategy category. Every once in a while I venture into the realm of platform games but that's really about it. My nephews, on the other hand, are huuuuuuge fans of gaming. They love racing games, fighting games, first-person shooters... Any kind of action game, ( ... )
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Anyway. I wonder what would happen if we played a fighting game against each other. I bet it'd be LOLarious and tons of fun to watch. XD
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: ) I think you're right that it'd be LOLarious. Maybe we'd tie...
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