Very, very far from the tree...

Aug 28, 2007 03:37

It's been a very long time since my mother's side of the family made me so depressed and angry I actually lost sleep over it ( Read more... )

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deepfryerfire August 28 2007, 08:00:09 UTC
Retail, yes, but the stockroom and inventory control end of retail. Not that it would have mattered- for those guys, military, corporate, teaching and nursing are the only things that pass 'GO'.

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dosetsu August 28 2007, 11:48:11 UTC
Gah, that shit sucks. Why the Hell would anyone get so squirmy about a job? I seriously find it hard to grasp that sort of mindset.

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deepfryerfire August 28 2007, 22:35:23 UTC
Thank you. Thank you. I needed to hear people tell me that this is NOT NORMAL.

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dosetsu August 29 2007, 06:57:45 UTC
Yeah, that just strikes me as really bizarre.

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A quote for all occasions flemmings August 28 2007, 14:47:16 UTC
"to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance, or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations"
-Congreve, The Way of the World

Change 'your' to 'my' and you have it.

They *are* stinky about the gay thing. They're stinky all over the insides of their teeny-tiny minds. And classist and narrow and bigoted and seriously screwed in their values. Life is too. flipping. short. to spend with people you don't like who don't like you. Cut your ties without regret. Christmas with them is a *favour*.

Otherwise- your *Mum* is a minister??? Yowza. And you're not working nights any more? Thank God for that, though I can believe it's a rough adjustment.

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Re: A quote for all occasions deepfryerfire August 28 2007, 22:57:28 UTC
I think I'll spare myself the pain of direct confrontation and just make myself increasingly unavailable, much as I'd love to rub their noses in it. I may have to do Christmas if I don't totally want to break off completely, but since they never bother to memorize my schedule I can easily make it... inconvenient.

And my mother is, well, inches away from being a minister. She graduated from the seminary this spring, and will hopefully be ordained in October, but we won't know for sure until the final vote comes down from the church that's looking to hire her. Which happened yesterday, but I haven't heard yet whether it's a done deed.

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