Here's hoping you feel better soon, al.
I watch Unfogged for your every post, alameida. You're a hell of a writer even when you're so sick. A very merry Christmas and renewed health to you.
A two-week fever? Cripes. (Euphemism in honor of the holiday season.) That is medieval in its horror, if not Lovecraftian, though I who write that have compared common colds to durance vile and the suffering of the early martyrs. (A phlegmy Flippanter is a shameless Flippanter.) Don't let them bleed you.
Also, I had been laboring under the impression that the essential purpose of money was to make it easier to avoid and flee one's family.
Help the poor or flee one's family. Depending. Hope you feel better.
Merry Cripesmas!
Being sick is such a drag and being sick for Christmas is worse, especially if you are super invested in making Christmas Christmassy. Good physical stand-in for your sister's present, though, well done you.
Well, I feel immodestly sorry. Best of luck, friend.
I expect Apo may be able to help your sister out with this fertilization business. Provided she's willing to interpret the "Aryan" bit a little loosely.
Christ, sorry to hear that, al. Hope it gets better soon.
Wait, why are the eggs straightedge?
7: he's a ginger, man! it has finally occurred to me that part of the reason my sis is going to such trouble to have a biological child when her genes are fucked up and the fetus will need to be borne by a surrogate because her ehlers-danlos means she can't survive pregnancy, is that she intends to fulfill her father's dream of having another son directly descended from the last general to surrender during the cilvil war (they were all named after him, just a series of juniors and seniors). I will have to tell her it's ok to name the baby after her dad otherwise she will feel mean making my pay to create this child in his honor. funny that I never thought of it before but it came to me in a flash that this was the point. oh well he will be a new person, hopefully not so likely the type to betray everyone to the white witch in exchange for turkish delight, or be a shithead abusive asshole. he could be nice even! maybe even my stepfather could have been a nice person if he hadn't been raised by a vicious sadist.
my sister's kind of got a thing for nazis; remember all that reëanctment stuff? I have seen her boyfriends, trust me on this. her sperm donor is going to be a 6'2" blond guy with blue eyes. no, more likely green like her dad. hmm, and dark hair so as to totally resemble her dad? that's iffy, but what the fuck.
3: I do rather notably live 12,000 miles away from everyone, but I support them from afar and pay for them to come see me all the time. and then they stay for 4 months.
her father's dream of having another son directly descended from the last general to surrender during the cilvil war
If some other Confederate general wanders out of the hills intending to give up the noble cause, she'll either have to have his baby or kill him before the Union troops arrive.
the latter, I think. general ed/mund kir/by-smith was the last to surrender only because he was so far west (almost or even in texas?) that he didn't know the war was over, not because he was particularly noble. nonetheless my sis has got mad status in the daughters of the confederacy. should she want it, which she shouldn't, because hoo boy are they a bunch of racisty-racist racists. gen. k/irby-smith appears, in fact, to have absconded with the remaining payroll (in gold) to mexico, though this is not widely bruited about.
looking at his wikipedia entry I see this is interesting: "Alexander H. Darnes (1840 - February 11, 1894) was an African American born into slavery in the same home as Smith in St. Augustine, Florida. Darnes was the son of Violent Pinkney, a black slave owned by Smith's parents. He served as Smith's personal valet starting from 1855 and continuing throughout the Civil War after which he would go on to medical school and became one of the first black physicians in the state of Florida."
all the pinkneys I know are white, fancy that. also, naming your slave violent seems a bit risky.
Anonymous leeches are the worst.
And i heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight/Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Some of you will have this from twitter, but home-town conservative politician found drunk, beating cat against walls by tail, with more kitty parts in the fridge, after conviction for tax evasion. Merry Christmas.
gen. k/irby-smith appears, in fact, to have absconded with the remaining payroll (in gold) to mexico
He was distraught; he didn't know what he was doing/He was a cunt who should have split it with his men, who god knows, were stuck with confederate dollars. Delete as appropriate, but it's funny as hell.
al, I'm sorry you're poorly for christmas - hope you're better soon. One year when I was about 10 I sat down in front of a plate of roast dinosaur, said, "I'm sorry, I don't feel very well", and tottered off to have measles. It's a bitch. My mother organised a full scale do over in February - perhaps you should do that.
Merry Christmas, everbody. Catch you later.
I sat up for dinner and smiled at everyone! now I'm going to go back to mild hallucinating where I am too tired to watch tv. merry christmas everyone!
I was blond and am 6'2", but I never put them together. The story of my life, I suppose.
al, having to make a second grocery trip because you underestimated how many Four Lokos your uncle would drink on a dare is a first world problem. A debilitating two-week illness is not. My continuing sympathies.
Yup, suffering is suffering, even if you have money. All my sympathies. You should lie still and relax, let whatever happens with Christmas happen, and plan a big Easter blowout, or whenever you're next feeling good. There's always a holiday.
17: What the fucking fuck? I couldn't even read past the first paragraph.
I seem to have spent far too much on food and drink this week, and keep getting phone calls to tell me to get more. Humbug.
Hope alameida feels better.
I was badly sick yesterday myself. Feel better now, but not so completely that I'm confident it's passed. Let's really hope I don't relapse, because I'm now out shopping with my family more than an hour's drive from home.
Hope everyone feels better. Bah humbug.
17: It's nice to know that even though people have different politics, hobbies don't differ by nearly so much.
Wow that sounds awful. Get better as soon as you can. And remember not to pretend you're better until you really are!
But I disapprove of Nazis rather strongly. I wish your sister much improvement this season.
Get well soon.
I had to struggle through a sinus infection with Christmas a couple of years ago, which was my personal low of oh god just kill me and get it over with sort of illness, where everything including breathing just hurts too much/is too much effort so I know a little of what Alameida is going through and ouch.
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Count your blessings, kick your curses -- peace on earth, good will to all. Hang tough, antipodean interlocutrix.
Count your blessings, kick your curses -- peace on earth, good will to all. Hang tough, antipodean interlocutrix.
I've always liked the term "Kirby Smithdom." The trans-Mississippi CSA was just him.
You are a truly awesome sister, al. And as horrible as it is to be sick on Christmas, I'd weigh in on the side of "You may be surprised in later years to find out how deeply your children appreciated some some aspect that you hardly noticed at the time."
It's only human to want to put together a fantastic holiday for your kids, I'm saying, but what lives on in memory as "fantastic" can be a single moment.
Oh, and as far as black Pinkneys -- this guy is quite the artist. I've given a couple of his books to great acclaim from my sobrinos. The five-year-old in particular adores his version of the Lion and the Mouse, and one of the three-year-olds is getting Twinkle Twinkle Little Star tomorrow.
oh wow, those are beautiful! I love children's books illustrations, I should check them out more. all the white pinkneys I know are immodestly proud of it (likewise ravenels, jeffersons, lees etc.); do african-americans ever get genealogically interested in having been owned by (and certainly being descended from) the fiiiinest families in the nation or is it just all an undifferentiated "a bunch of southern bastards"?because there could be a "daughters of the innocent victims of the conferedacy" or something. I guess there's the jefferson graveyard thing. I'd like to see some black people start demanding to get buried in that pinkney cemetery outside charleston, those'd be good times.
my children gave me all 9 seasons of CSI:MIAMI. that was very charming. I've shown them horatio caine one-liner montages, so they know what it's all about.
39: I know I've mentioned that when my brother showed up to the USC (that's south carolina) dorms, his roommate was astonished he wasn't black. "I've never met anybody named [realname] who wasn't a brother..." yeah, see, what happened was. um. awkward, kinda.
you know what I should get my family sometime, a fucking gun safe. my dad's got one, but none at my mom's.
"I've never met anybody named [realname] who wasn't a brother..." yeah, see, what happened was. um. awkward, kinda.
Nearly everyone is compelled to comment in some way to Jammies. You can tell a mile away, because there's a long pause and you can see that the person is trying to figure out how to phrase a question, or at least change the topic and has a definite topic in mind, and it's usually "So how exactly did you end up with the name Jamaal?" But other times we get "Whoa, you're white!" or variations on that.
yeah, but at least the presumption isn't, "hey, some arab dudes owned your family in chattel slavery, eh?" unless...that's not how he ended up white, right?
That would be worse! He was just named after a basketball player.
Being named after a basketball player does sound pretty unpleasant, but I suppose slavery would be worse.
and the "arab" people have to be white. that's how it's worked in america, anyway.
I think Arabs are technically white. Or were until recently, anyway.
oh, sweet, then, problem solved. would I say arab people are white? some random dark and handsome guy from detroit named, just hypothetically, jamaal? yeah, I think I would. the crucial american racial division is black/white. as long as somebody's not black, they can be white. in 2 generations the olmec-looking guy running your bodega will be white. my indian friend with darker skin than 60% of black people will be white.
That's certainly how it's worked historically. Saiselgy had a good post on this a while ago. In terms of people's perceptions right now, though, I'd say there's a wide variety of opinions.
I thought they were Caucasian, but not necessarily white, or something.
