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bedlamsbard ([personal profile] bedlamsbard) wrote2010-07-18 09:46 pm

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Tired. Eyes hurt. Hate geology. Uncle and cousin have gone, grandmother and boyfriend have arrived. Test tomorrow. Owe comments, I think. Possibly not. Want yarn. Have vague thoughts re: diamond smuggling in Dust. (Have been reading about diamonds. De Beers is alternately really freaking impressive and really freaking terrifying. Calormenes employing naiads to mine riverbeds? I feel like it would have come up earlier.)

Visiting step-cousin made me feel like a slacker leech, although on the bright side, I probably made her feel similarly. (We are the same age; she works part-time in a law office, pays for her own classes and food, and is going to a community college, though she's going to transfer to UW-Bothell in winter, and wants to be a lawyer, while I go to a fancy private school full-time, do not work, and want to be a professor. Also, I bake and cook and do dishes. So...yeah. Pretty different. I don't know, I probably came off as a spoiled elitist snob or something.)
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[personal profile] aella_irene 2010-07-19 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That is the purpose of cousins. That, and making your parents feel better, and able to go: "Well, at least my daughter isn't pregnant/on drugs/threatening to join a mercenary company in Africa."
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[personal profile] aella_irene 2010-07-19 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. Different economic circumstances, different general situation...