Second installment already? I love you. I've had a crappy week (honestly, I can't help feeling like the evil forces from Mary Anne and the Bad Luck Mystery are punishing me for rolling my eyes at that anti-divorce meme on Facebook) and this is exactly what I needed.
THIS SO MUCH re Jessi "trying to remember" what it was like to be a kid, like she's...well, Ann's age.
I haven't seen Inception either. (In fact, for a while I referred to it as "Inthing" because I couldn't even remember the name of this apparently mindblowing movie.) (See what I did there?) As for referencing stuff you haven't seen, I once spent an entire afternoon with my friend yelling "I DON'T HAVE THE STRENGTH TO STAY AWAY FROM YOU!!!!" at random strangers after she told me Edward said that to Bella in one of the Twilight books I haven't read (I slogged through the first one but refuse to read any others unless I am stricken with chronic insomnia), so I ain't judging.
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Remember how I said in the first installment that although I'm technically new here, I've been lurking long enough to have favorites? You're definitely one of said favorites, so I practically exploded (Lerangis, where are you when we need you?) to get comments from you.
Oh, for God's sake, a kid is not an unspeakable whiner who deserves no flowers by their bed if they skip the occasional page of maths problems because they have their head in a bucket courtesy of fucking chemotherapy. I have always detested this trope.
Exactly. It's like they have to be perfect little martyrs or it's just fine to blame the victim. "Well, of course she got sick, she overexerted herself/ate too much junk food/stayed up too late."
I fucking HATE that trope. I also hate "the only disability is a bad attitude" implying that all disabled people ever have to be perfectly cheerful like Pollyanna all the goddamn time.
Is there such a thing as a natural talent for childcare? Or is it necessarily the kind of thing you pick up by trial and error? I've seen both. I have two children and when I brought the first one home, I had no idea what the heck I was doing. There was a lot of trial and a whole lot of error there. One the other side of things, there are some people that just seem to relate well with children without trying. I guess you could say it's a natural talent.
To be fair (fairness being pushed by my inner memory of mangling 'ungulate') they might've known the word to read it, but not the pronunciation. Happens when the vocabulary of your reading material is at a higher level than the vocabulary level of your conversations.
. . . wait, she's volunteering at a day-care center that's got enough of a budget to have a gym and on-staff nurse? That. That doesn't really strike me as being in the spirit of volunteering, because it's not like her work would benefit parents who lack the cash to cover day-care while working to make ends meet. That's just . . . I dunno, resume-building.
*nod* Yeah, depends on the situation, but I was probably a bit deer-in-headlights when I gave a report in junior high and realized I had no idea how the hell 'macabre' was pronounced.
. . . bookworm who hated reading out loud. I realize I have no way of possibly looking at this scenario objectively.
In all fairness, I'm not too objective either. I'm a huge stickler, the first person to jump out of my chair when I sense possible linguistic mutilation. I proofread a lot, and some of the papers I see from my COLLEGE CLASSMATES make me reach for the bottle.
(Re: Kristy's "volunteering" - spot on! Though isn't everything Kristy does ultimately about resume-building?)
Aww, I haven't seen Inception either! Which is weird since it's got Cillian Murphy and I'd watch him read a phone book. But I'm also not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio.
Omg. Years ago when I went to order The Subtle Knife, the chick working the counter couldn't find it. Finally she did and was like 'Oh, sub-tle' and I was like 'Yeah' while trying not to snicker at her. For Gods' sake, she worked at a bookstore!
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THIS SO MUCH re Jessi "trying to remember" what it was like to be a kid, like she's...well, Ann's age.
I haven't seen Inception either. (In fact, for a while I referred to it as "Inthing" because I couldn't even remember the name of this apparently mindblowing movie.) (See what I did there?) As for referencing stuff you haven't seen, I once spent an entire afternoon with my friend yelling "I DON'T HAVE THE STRENGTH TO STAY AWAY FROM YOU!!!!" at random strangers after she told me Edward said that to Bella in one of the Twilight books I haven't read (I slogged through the first one but refuse to read any others unless I am stricken with chronic insomnia), so I ain't judging.
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Oh, for God's sake, a kid is not an unspeakable whiner who deserves no flowers by their bed if they skip the occasional page of maths problems because they have their head in a bucket courtesy of fucking chemotherapy. I have always detested this trope.
Exactly. It's like they have to be perfect little martyrs or it's just fine to blame the victim. "Well, of course she got sick, she overexerted herself/ate too much junk food/stayed up too late."
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I've seen both. I have two children and when I brought the first one home, I had no idea what the heck I was doing. There was a lot of trial and a whole lot of error there. One the other side of things, there are some people that just seem to relate well with children without trying. I guess you could say it's a natural talent.
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. . . wait, she's volunteering at a day-care center that's got enough of a budget to have a gym and on-staff nurse? That. That doesn't really strike me as being in the spirit of volunteering, because it's not like her work would benefit parents who lack the cash to cover day-care while working to make ends meet. That's just . . . I dunno, resume-building.
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. . . bookworm who hated reading out loud. I realize I have no way of possibly looking at this scenario objectively.
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(Re: Kristy's "volunteering" - spot on! Though isn't everything Kristy does ultimately about resume-building?)
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I... don't really have much else to add, tbh, being so baffled by this day-care centre that Kristy's found. Stoneybrook must the size of a small city.
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Omg. Years ago when I went to order The Subtle Knife, the chick working the counter couldn't find it. Finally she did and was like 'Oh, sub-tle' and I was like 'Yeah' while trying not to snicker at her. For Gods' sake, she worked at a bookstore!
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