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So here's the CD I burned at Simon's yesterday:
( See if you can guess the theme! )
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Meet me in outer space
So Mandarin yesterday was full of tasty Chinese food goodness with Jason, SimonB, SimonL, Katie, Nick, Pete, and Andrew and Kisha who only showed up for... like... five minutes. Sadness. Was fun seeing people again. Spent a good deal of time bitching about the Edge Top 102 Songs, mostly because if it was supposed to be most influential songs of all time, there is no way Smells Like Teen Spirit should have been top. Also argued with SimonL about whether Edge should play Coldplay. I mean, OK, I don't like Coldplay, but where else are you going to put them?
Also more roleplaying talk. Seems Magic School is going to be run on Saturday, so no Jason in Waterloo. Sadness. Have also given up on trying to run a WW game myself. I'm not really cut out for GMing/STing.
Maybe together we can get somewhere
So my cousin Matt is getting married. Technically, the wedding is in December, but since her family is all in the States and we're all up here, we're having essentially a wedding party here, now, so that those of us who will be in school in December can congratulate him.
Matt is the... third oldest of my cousins. Michael, his older brother, is the oldest, and also has a girlfriend. I don't know if they're getting married any time soon. Lory is a lesbian and is in Spain right now (or was last time I checked), and I have no idea if she has a girlfriend or not.
Then Matt, then Lydia. <- The cousin I named my vampire after. Heh. Lydia was always my role model as a kid. She was the closest of the cousins to me in age (except for Andrew, who is my second cousin, and three years younger than I am). She's four years older than I am.
(I am this little island all by myself in my family. Four years after Lydia; five before my sister on my mom's side and six before my sister on my dad's side. Three before Andrew, but I don't see him that often. It was very lonely, because I never wanted to play with the little kids and the older ones always shunned me. Sadness.)
Anyway... Lydia was always my favorite cousin, probably because she hung out with me more than anyone else. She's the kind of sweet, decent person that you just want good things to happen to so that they don't become cynical and jaded. She's in Italy right now with her dad (or was, again, last time I heard).
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Somewhere they're speaking
...it's weird, how families change. When my uncle wanted to divorce his first wife [he was cheating on her], my grandparents threatened to disown him and went into 'mourning' until he went back to her. When my dad divorced my mom, as far as I know they didn't do anything, prompting the comment from my aunt (that uncle's wife) to my mother, "If [Alessandra] had been a boy, they would have done the same thing." And again, they didn't comment when my aunt was going through problems with her husband. I wonder if it does boil down to male/female children... but I don't think so, because my nonna remarried when I was, I dunno, eight, nine maybe, and she and Phillip divorced.
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How have you changed since you were five? Ten? Fifteen? Twenty (if you can go that far - old folk!)?
I don't really remember being five, apart from anecdotal commentary from my mother. I know that I was a pretty active kid, and that I wanted to be a boy, and that I had friends but no close friends. Actually, I don't remember much about ten, either, except for meeting Serena.
I have sort of vague memories of a lot of things, but man, my mind is like a sieve. Or maybe a rusted steel trap: it still snaps onto things, but what? Who knows?
Goddamnit, I've only been working for two hours and I feel like I should be going home. Someone shoot me.
( See if you can guess the theme! )
---
Meet me in outer space
So Mandarin yesterday was full of tasty Chinese food goodness with Jason, SimonB, SimonL, Katie, Nick, Pete, and Andrew and Kisha who only showed up for... like... five minutes. Sadness. Was fun seeing people again. Spent a good deal of time bitching about the Edge Top 102 Songs, mostly because if it was supposed to be most influential songs of all time, there is no way Smells Like Teen Spirit should have been top. Also argued with SimonL about whether Edge should play Coldplay. I mean, OK, I don't like Coldplay, but where else are you going to put them?
Also more roleplaying talk. Seems Magic School is going to be run on Saturday, so no Jason in Waterloo. Sadness. Have also given up on trying to run a WW game myself. I'm not really cut out for GMing/STing.
Maybe together we can get somewhere
So my cousin Matt is getting married. Technically, the wedding is in December, but since her family is all in the States and we're all up here, we're having essentially a wedding party here, now, so that those of us who will be in school in December can congratulate him.
Matt is the... third oldest of my cousins. Michael, his older brother, is the oldest, and also has a girlfriend. I don't know if they're getting married any time soon. Lory is a lesbian and is in Spain right now (or was last time I checked), and I have no idea if she has a girlfriend or not.
Then Matt, then Lydia. <- The cousin I named my vampire after. Heh. Lydia was always my role model as a kid. She was the closest of the cousins to me in age (except for Andrew, who is my second cousin, and three years younger than I am). She's four years older than I am.
(I am this little island all by myself in my family. Four years after Lydia; five before my sister on my mom's side and six before my sister on my dad's side. Three before Andrew, but I don't see him that often. It was very lonely, because I never wanted to play with the little kids and the older ones always shunned me. Sadness.)
Anyway... Lydia was always my favorite cousin, probably because she hung out with me more than anyone else. She's the kind of sweet, decent person that you just want good things to happen to so that they don't become cynical and jaded. She's in Italy right now with her dad (or was, again, last time I heard).
---
Somewhere they're speaking
...it's weird, how families change. When my uncle wanted to divorce his first wife [he was cheating on her], my grandparents threatened to disown him and went into 'mourning' until he went back to her. When my dad divorced my mom, as far as I know they didn't do anything, prompting the comment from my aunt (that uncle's wife) to my mother, "If [Alessandra] had been a boy, they would have done the same thing." And again, they didn't comment when my aunt was going through problems with her husband. I wonder if it does boil down to male/female children... but I don't think so, because my nonna remarried when I was, I dunno, eight, nine maybe, and she and Phillip divorced.
---
How have you changed since you were five? Ten? Fifteen? Twenty (if you can go that far - old folk!)?
I don't really remember being five, apart from anecdotal commentary from my mother. I know that I was a pretty active kid, and that I wanted to be a boy, and that I had friends but no close friends. Actually, I don't remember much about ten, either, except for meeting Serena.
I have sort of vague memories of a lot of things, but man, my mind is like a sieve. Or maybe a rusted steel trap: it still snaps onto things, but what? Who knows?
Goddamnit, I've only been working for two hours and I feel like I should be going home. Someone shoot me.
