so grandpa thinks that I.....
2001-08-20 at 11:52 p.m.
"So Reva, what's on your mind?"
Are you kidding??
I leave for Texas in one day, I'm not all packed, I have one day to move into the wrong apartment then fly to New Mexico for one day for a wedding I'm terribly uncomfortable about, Grandpa wants me married NOW and the HMO lady thinks I'm a horrible person, when in fact she has a harelip and has the bedside manor of a ... a... a poophead.
Gag-ie. Oh, and I have NO clue about my carreer and anything beyond this year although my Dad has a bunch of grrreeeat ideas that end up making me cry and we don't know why.
and after 21 years on this planet I still can't spell carer.. carreerr.. carreerrrrr... AK!!
I gues things started out well with Grandpa. After ignoring me my whole life because of the inappropriate and offensive things I blurted out to mmy reliatives during my younger years, the question "so what are you doing with your life?" was touching.
I went on about the jazz and rock violin things and my work as a clinician for an electric violin company and my private studio in Texas and although he was skeptical, he listened. And there was much rejoicing.
(incidentally, my aunt has decided that the best way to get guys is being able to quote random Monty Python lines and also play golf. as you can see, I've got number one in control...)
(not that I want any guys)
(there's no one around that remotely interests me)
(hey, stop saying I need to find someone!!! ech, read on)
So my conversation with Grandpa came and went, when out of the blue the next day, he pulls me aside to mention some points he'd been mulling over about what I'd said. Whoo! He noticed!
But the first thing he said I need to add to the mix is marriage - NOW. Home and family first, it's not so hard to do the carreerrrrr after you have kids and stuff.
nuh-uh!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then he told me I should have a teaching license to fall back on so I can teach school.
Two important pieces in Reva's life guidebook thingy are: (in no particulr order)
1. Get school done before I start to share my life with someone else. Get a carreeerrr first before I start having children. If I can focus on this now, I will be able to focus on my family someday better in the diiiiiiiiistant future.
2. I DON'T WANT TO TEACH IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. My parents are public school teachers and they have been treated worse than toe jam.
And THEN after Grandpa discussed his views with me, I had not one, but TWO aunts tell me I'd better get married now before the pickins get slim.
Oh goood, get married out of FEAR, that's a fabulous motivation. I'm not even DATING.
So that's what is on mind. That and I hate HMO's. Oh, and if you'd mind saying a prayer for me - I have to drive alone for 15+ hours with a trailer so I won't be able to see anything on my right side and I'm really afraid of getting in an accident. I also get very sleepy in automobiles.
eeep.
SUPERCRACK is stocking up on her zzzzzzz's