I think my sister and I got the best of both worlds when it comes to idle talk that comes from both sides of our family. My dad's family (who are like stereotypical WASPS, except for being Catholic) are always very polite and talk about mild things like golf and the weather (as a joke, when we were in Catalina, I wrote a postcard to my Grandma where I talked about weather and mentioned that Connor almost went golfing, and that we'd heard that she and my grandfather used to go to Catalina to golf, I don't know if it was quite as funny if you weren't me) and other such harmless things. My sibs and I were unsure about how my dad and his wife had voted in 2000, and so we let my dad be the first one to say anything about the scandal that was the election. We now know that politics is a safe thing to talk and make fun of around them, becase it is relatively non-confrontational. My mom's family, on the other hand (particularly my mom's mom) must have deep important conversations, at all times. There is none of the, almost comforting at times, banality. She saw two operas this afternoon, (they were short operas) one was funny, the other was not, the the one that wasn't funny was good art.
Anyway, the point was, Jamie and I (when we can break out of the shy shell) are both pretty decent at doing either, at any given point. And I like that we can talk about silly stuff, or get so involved in talking about Shakespeare we don't realize that we're on 50 instead of 97 until we see the Washington Monument (this only happened once), or our depressing lack of love lives, or whatever. It's a good thing, I think, to be able to do either.
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10:36:58 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
So, I bought a sample of this handcream last week. I adore it. But, I find this pricing thing odd. My sample was $5, and it has 1/3 of what's in the big thing for $21. I really really don't understand. i wonder if the samples will suddenly get more expensive, or stop being available when the line is actually available.
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09:24:29 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
Why is everyone getting married in October? Note to Jonnies out there: if any of you are planning on getting married and want me to come to your wedding, three of my cousins are getting married in October, so don't get married in October.
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09:00:42 PM,Sunday 20 March 2005
It would amuse me greatly if St. Patrick's Day and Ash Wednesday fell on the same day.
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