Status Report: Weekly Twenty-Eight

[nekokoban]

FAILURE
Grace weeks left: two

Thoughts: So last week was just bad (emotionally) and busy (everything else), so I was in no real place to sit down and write. I've discovered that I really am bad at writing when there's someone else around, even if they're not paying attention to me--if they're talking to me (or talking at me, as the case is right now), I get distracted and can't get more than maybe a few words at a time.

THE THING IS, I AM ON VACATION NOW! Surely this will be conductive to my writing!

BUT NO: first, I get sickish! My allergies go insane and now I basically have that horrible sore throat that comes about from when your sinuses explode and drain down your throat. Beyond that, I have been home for a day and a night and my dad is making up for a year of not really being talkative on the phone to lecture me hardcore. If lecturing was an Olympic sport, my dad would GO FOR THE GOLD. It started with him and my mom talking about the stock market, and somehow it became my dad grilling me on what my friends do for a living?? AND SOMEHOW THIS BECAME A LECTURE ON MY LIFE CHOICES AND WILL I BE OKAY IN THREE YEARS? IN FIVE YEARS?? TERRA, THINK ABOUT YOUR CAREER CHOICES AND WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING WITH YOURSELF!!! --this is, of course, because I made the mistake of telling him that I have friends who're working part-time or looking for at least part-time jobs right now. SILLY ME, NOT REALIZING HOW THIS SOMEHOW REFLECTED ON MY OWN CAREER.

"Terra, I am going to give you a BRAIN TEASER PROBLEM that they give to Microsoft employees!" he says. "YOUR CHALLENGE IS TO FIGURE IT OUT, OKAY? :B"

Father, I thought I was on vacation, why are you doing this to me! Also why are the lives of my friends, most of whom you have never met, going to directly impact my own career thoughts and choices? I am extraordinarily lucky in that I have full-time employment in a place I enjoy working--I've worked there for four years! I AM DOING OKAY. But he lectured me like when I was a student and unemployed and TERRA, LOOK TO THE FUTURE! THE FUTURE! I couldn't honestly tell if he was praising me or putting me down, in that fabulous way that Asian fathers have. Oh now he's lecturing me on the solution, it's apparently ALL ABOUT FLEXIBLE THINKING. In the course of me writing this post it has somehow become a parable of life using the Merchant of Venice. Father, what is this.

This is after my mom went :( at me a lot because--okay, so, about a month ago, she asked if I wanted to see Avatar when I visited! I said ehh, not really interested, I don't really want to. A week later, she tells me she got tickets for it! 3D IMAX, TERRA! IT'S THREE! DEE! I! MAX! Apparently this is supposed to immediately sway me and I will SEE THE LIGHT and be ready and willing to see it. Only--no. I'm not. I wasn't interested when I saw the previews, and I grew even less interested when I heard reviews from various friends. Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't make a judgment until I see it, but ... I don't really want to see it! I don't particularly care if people want to see it or not, but I had no interest, so I didn't want to drop $10 on it! AND I TOLD MOM THAT. BUT APPARENTLY SHE FORGOT, because when I was still kind of meh about the movie, and she started pouting at me and being all "well, if you don't WANT to, you can stay home" and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I can definitely see where a lot of my bad habits come from, visiting my parents.

IN CONCLUSION: I LOVE MY PARENTS BUT I AM NEVER EVER MOVING BACK TO AUSTIN AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

N-next week will hopefully be better.

ETA: AN HOUR LATER, HE WENT TO BED. After telling me he'd pay me money to lose weight and father, I don't think bribing is really the way to go--!

Comments

[lilorchid1023.livejournal.com]

Oh, Asian fathers. I know how you feel.

[nekokoban]

HE'S STILL GOING sob. I love my father, but I sort of wish he'd talk more during the year instead of saving it all up for when I'm home.

[lilorchid1023.livejournal.com]

There's something about lecturing someone face to face.

More impact that way, I SUPPOSE.

[nekokoban]

HE'S SO HAPPY ABOUT IT! It's like a bizarre version of empty nesting.

[rinkhals.livejournal.com]

/IS A BUM AT

;A;

be strong, my love

[nekokoban]

HE'S STILL GOING

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Blerrrrrrrrr. *Hugs* My dad does that kind of thing, too. Granted, he's more low-key about it, but he still manages to slip the knife in every so often, particularly with things like "That's not how I would do it but you know I would never tell you how to run your life" and passive things like that, and the ever popular need to lecture The Boy and I about how we need to TALK ABOUT MONEY and LISTEN TO HIS RELATIONSHIP WISDOM and crap. Yeah, Dad, I get that you went to a relationship counselor before your second marriage - I'm so proud. But serious, I do not need the embarrassment of my father saying - at dinner, at a restaurant, in front of my boyfriend - "The three things couples fight about are money, sex, and kids. You don't have kids, and I assume the sex part is fine, so..."

...By all of which I mean "look what you have to look forward to!" I mean, no, wait. XP

......Srsly, I'm sorry, hon. At least you're not going to be dealing with the queue tomorrow! You can think of me slaving away on hot site redesigns and feel better no matter what your parents make you do! &Hearts;

[nekokoban]

I think the big issue is that during the year, when I call my mom, she gets out all the nagging about everything else in my life out of the way and just bugs me about, like, my posture and my looks and my weight when I visit, rather than LIFE DECISIOOOOOONS.

Whereas my dad, if he talks to me on the phone, it's basically to make sure I am a) alive and b) healthy. EVERYTHING ELSE, HE SAVES UP UNTIL THIS ONE WEEK.

... don't die, Jen. I'LL BE BACK IN A WEEK, I PROMISE--!

[ningen-demonai.livejournal.com]

Asian pareeeents.

[nekokoban]

YOU GOTTA LOVE 'EM

AND THEN KEEP SOME DISTANCE FROM 'EM. :'D

[ningen-demonai.livejournal.com]

I'M FAIRLY SURE IT'S A MAJOR REASON WHY KIDS LOOK FOR COLLEGES FAR FAR AWAY T^Tb

[jeva-chan.livejournal.com]

... hilariously, I only know about asian fathers because I once had one on the phone when activating a line of service for a university student for T-Mobile. The girl sounded VERY put-upon and the father kept interrupting to ask questions involving things that I was going to go over and-or had already gone over with his daughter. And then afterward, he demanded to be put back onto the phone to ask MORE questions. D:

--I can only imagine what it's like having that sort of father ;;

ALSO, TERRA. FEEL FREE TO TELL YOUR PARENTS THAT ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS GOT A FULL-TIME JOB WHEN SHE WAS UNEMPLOYED FOR 20 DAYS IN SEATTLE 8[

But yes, LET US BOND OVER NEVER MOVING BACK TO TEXAS WHEN YOU GET BACK \o We can go for awesome dessert or something, idk. Or just hang out. Watch singing robots?

[nekokoban]

Ha ha ha yeah. Yeah, that's sort of--VERY MUCH LIKE MY FATHER, though to be fair, there have been times where I've had to interrupt my parents and be like, "Mom, no, it's X, not Y, please keep them straight, cry." I have grown used to it, to the point where really it's just FUNNY in an orztastic way. Daddy, Ilu but ahhhhh I wish we could get more talking done throughout the year, instead of everything at once.

Sob, yeah, I mostly like--I mentioned those of my friends with jobs and that a few were still looking, and that's sort of what started the explosion. STILL. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU♥♥♥ I am really glad for you. :3 WE CAN TOTALLY BOND OR WATCH SINGING ROBOTS OR BOTH, let's go somewhere decent and celebrate your grown-up job. /o/