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21882. Ms. No - 5/29/2007 3:41:35 PM Yep, Betty is right on the money with this one.
My mother had to tread lightly as far as dating was concerned after she and my father split up. We met perhaps three men she dated in ten years. Now, my mom is fairly traditional in some ways --- her boyfriend of nine years never once spent the night at our house while my brother and I were there ---- but she had an interesting child challenge:
My brother was likely to latch on to any man who walked in the door as a potential father and I was likely to freeze him out at the first hint that the guy might think he could replace my father.
I think that might have been different had our father lived in town where we could see him on a regular basis, but all that being said, think about it this way: not every person you date is going to end up being "the one" or even "a pretty good one". Why introduce the most important people in your life to someone you may decide isn't worth your time?
And, as Betty mentioned, there's the sex thing. ;-> 21883. wonkers2 - 5/30/2007 4:10:23 PM Cap'n Dirty sez, "Betty is a woman after me own heart! A candidate fer a moonlight cruise aboard the Tomater Sloop." 21884. judithathome - 6/1/2007 4:10:04 PM This belongs in the Arts thread but what the hell...thought I'd share a little culture with the denizens of the cafe to perk it up a bit!
21885. thoughtful - 6/1/2007 4:40:55 PM Wow that was fascinating! 21886. jexster - 6/1/2007 5:05:08 PM Google Earth - latest version - is totally kewl. For 5 cities (SF is one, don't know others yet) they've a new "street view" function. With this sucker, you can read license plates...and I am presently going to check whether their pass picked up any nude sunbathers at Land's End 21887. judithathome - 6/1/2007 6:45:39 PM Like I said...a little culture in the cafe!
Jex, you slay me. 21888. Magoseph - 6/2/2007 8:41:48 AM Thanks for the video, Judith--here are the names of the artists of the portraits:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael - Raffaello, Titian - Tiziano Vecellio , Sandro Botticelli , Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Antonello da Messina, Pietro Perugino, Hans Memling, El Greco, Hans Holbein, Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov , Peter Paul Rubens, Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Antoine-Jean Gros, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Amalie, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Flatour, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Wontner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Comerre, Leighton, Blaas, Renoir, Millias, Duveneck, Cassat, Weir, Zorn, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Gaugan, Henri Matisse, Picabia, Gustav Klimt, Hawkins, Magritte, Salvador Dali, Malevich, Merrild, Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso.
And thanks for teaching me yesterday how to post a UTube video.
21889. judithathome - 6/2/2007 10:07:28 PM I recognized many of those in the first group but the ones I recoginzed the most were the latter group, the more "modern" ones. That amazes me because it's the artists I like the least...ha! 21890. arkymalarky - 6/3/2007 2:55:21 AM Today I've been soaking up the reality of this horrendous school year being over and almost being done with graduate school. It's been great to be at home with no projects or papers due, none to grade, no pressing deadline breathing down my neck. My rural activist partner just finished her last year of teaching and I think she's going to enjoy retirement, since rural activism has been a second full-time/overtime job for her--much more than for me--the past two years that I've been in grad school. My last class starts Monday at noon, and after it's done I will just have my work/home routine in the fall. I will be doing much less local rural education activism, but will continue to be active at the state level. That means life will be less crazy for a while.
Eleven years ago tomorrow we moved into this house. About seven years ago I left my job to work where Bob does and was so miserable and homesick that by October I'd already been hired back where I am now. I was happy as a clam at home and work when Mike Huckabee announced his grand plan to close rural high schools and I hit the ground running to try to fight it. We won that battle with a huge effort that ended with my superintendent retiring early with a return of lymphoma. We've been struggling ever since. The internal conflicts are what's going to get us in the end, and they're almost always impossible to win. I'm very tired of that struggle (the state political stuff became fun after it was less directly threatening), but I've got one more short round with it and then what happens happens. I really feel like I did all I could.
This summer I'm going to reclaim my health and my house, and next year--whatever happens to my school after that--is going to be a good one. After that I can take it a year at a time and work there as long as the campus is open, and when it closes I will take one of two standing offers, and in 3 years I will go to 5/7 time, which is four classes a day. I can do that pretty much anywhere. Or I can flat out retire and do something else.
I really can't quite believe summer's finally really here. I can't remember the last time I looked so forward to it. 21891. alistairConnor - 6/3/2007 9:30:45 PM Clip of Jane Fonda on Letterman, talking about her eco-friendly clothes 21892. betty - 6/4/2007 3:20:59 AM Do you see that notebook type thing in my hand...it is a diploma!
21893. betty - 6/4/2007 3:21:41 AM congrats on being donw arky, I know how good that feels. 21894. arkymalarky - 6/4/2007 3:44:15 AM Hey, you look great! I love the dress. And that diploma is stunning! Can't wait until I get mine. I "graduated" in May according to the commencement announcement, but don't get it until August, since I have this one class to take. They don't do August graduation. 21895. Ms. No - 6/4/2007 7:05:49 AM Betty, you look wonderful and I agree that the diploma is the perfect accessory! 21896. wonkers2 - 6/4/2007 1:17:27 PM Congrats, Betty & Arky! 21897. judithathome - 6/4/2007 3:31:35 PM Betty, you look great in that dress! Can I borrow it for a wedding in July?
And congrats to both out smart ladies of the Mote...! 21898. judithathome - 6/4/2007 3:32:03 PM OUR...sheesh. I reread it, too. :-( 21899. thoughtful - 6/4/2007 5:13:04 PM Congrats to the graduates!
Good job on the dress, even better job on the diploma!
21900. wabbit - 6/4/2007 6:54:35 PM Congratulations to Arky and Betty!
Arky, in reading your Message # 21890 I was struck by how long some of us have been conversing. The initial fascination with web communities has faded and we have become casual as old friends do. We may not post here every day, but I know I check in almost every day just to see how folks are doing. I remember how miserable you were when you took the job at Bob's school. I remember when Betty was in Philadelphia, pre-weed, talking about First Friday gallery crawls (back in the Fray). The Mote will be eight years old this September. It doesn't seem possible. 21901. betty - 6/4/2007 7:30:17 PM I forgot there was life before Weed.
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