Posts by Emma Hart
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If our day job were to encourage people to celebrate truancy
I'd love to see what the hiring discussion I had with Russell looks like in Mark's head, I think I might hurt myself laughing. "But what I'm really looking for is someone to advocate truancy..."
There are a number of people here - and I'm one of them - who are dealing with at least one family member with long term illnesses and/or conditions.
When you're in that situation a lot of traditional roles/expectations go out the window.True. That's what happened to parenting-role (as opposed to parenting temperament) stereotypes in our house. Otherwise we just work to our strengths. My partner, bless him, cannot cook. I cannot fix the internet when it breaks.
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Such a conflict of interest could potentially lead to one questioning one's own purpose or role on a public domain.
Or not, whatever. 'One' could be perfectly sure that 'one's purpose' was to be entertaining while not making Russell's life any more difficult than, say, Craig. 'One' could also be perfectly confident that 'one' fulfils that role. Certainly 'one' is not going to be losing any sleep.
Only one? C'mon, that's a bit slack.
Indeed, I've stuffed up lots, most of them mine. I did learn quite a lot through the process (like, stop treating every partner like they're the last one) - so much I should probably write some kind of relationship advice tome. There must be some more indignation out there I could exercise. I'd hate for people's indignation to get all flabby.
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That doesn't surprise me at all.
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About 16cm in diameter, to the best of my recollection, with pink icing, detailed with the regulation dessicated coconut.
Isn't that a Boston bun?
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The ads make an interesting comparison.
I've been mulling this for a while, because I can't work out why the Aussie ads don't work for me. They just make me feel vaguely uncomfortable. I watched the NZ one again and it made me cry.
And can I just take a minute to say that I'm really hugely touched by the profound civility of this thread? It's an issue on which I know I can be brittle, and this is without a doubt the nicest domestic violence discussion I've ever been a part of.
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May partner literally was my best friend for about five years before I figured out that he did it for me in ways that weren't merely intellectual. That may well colour the way I see our relationship in ways I'm not even aware of.
And my relationship journey has been pretty much the exact opposite of Is's (despite us spending some years foraging in the same berry patch). It was all about the hawtness in the beginning, but if I had to spend the rest of my life as a brain in a jar I'd want it to be the jar next to his.
The other day in the supermarket, we had just persuaded a small boy we'd never seen before to ignore his grandmother and get the cocoa pops. I turned to my partner and said "you're evil, and you're going straight to Hell'. His response was 'I hope so, I'd hate to never see you again'.
I've never thought of this relationship as work.
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I'm not entirely sure what that means either, though it could indicate a use for my lightsabre and thigh-boots.
Wild applause! Too much awesome for one blog!
This is why it's so disappointing for people when they meet me.
I was surprised when I read Paul's letters properly. I came to the conclusion that I don't think I'd enjoy his company.
I got the impression I'd almost enjoy caving the smug misogynistic bastard's head in.
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Make that "as charged".
"Ass charged"? We can do this all day.
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So Titus 2 is the prequel to Titus Andronicus then?
It did cross my mind to wonder if it was in LOLCat.
Can you send me photos?
Sure. They may not be entirely genuine, of course...
Surely being a wife's not a job when it's such fun?
Indeed, which is why I wonder how people can see it as being harder than raising children.
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Well, I've also seen kids smacked since then. So if you're going to be rude about Craig...