Random Thoughts, 11-17-05

[greybeta]

Yes, I just wrote a 3700 word post. No, for my LJ friends I will not cut it because I rarely write anything even a third that long.
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A new pet peeve I have discovered: People on AIM who don't put their away messages on but don't respond with "I'm busy" when you IM them. How hard is it to respond within five minutes or put your away message on? Am I missing something here? I'm talking about consistently doing this, not just a one time thing.
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I got to eat pho, i.e. Vietnamese rice noodle soup, for lunch. It's my favorite meal in the world. So good.
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Dad: I hate liberals.
Me: Oh? Why's that?
Dad: Liberals don't have family values. I bet like 90% of all liberals have divorced parents. And...
Me: I think you're over...
Dad: Don't interrupt me, son.
Me: Yes sir.
Dad: (goes on five minute rant on why he hates liberals)
Me: Okay, then.

And people wonder why I'm a registered Republican.
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Out of pure curiousity, where did you go eat for your high school prom?

Comments

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

mmmm...pho... I think that it's back on the menu at a local restaurant here in town: Lilly's. I want some now.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend getting some pho, definitely.

[tu-oboe-girl.livejournal.com]

We ate at my house or Josh's house both years :0) It was more romantic than any of the restaurants we had in Jonesboro.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

With candlelight, too, I bet. It does sound romantic.

[cheesentoast.livejournal.com]

As far as AIM, I just forget and wander away. :(

Love pho.

I went to two proms - one with my bf and one with a gay friend who attended a Catholic prep school. The first we went to a Chinese restaurant called The Mustard Seed, the second we had a picnic. The second was much more fun.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a friend I know in Tulsa that does it and she's usually pretty organized about everything except for her away message. That annoys me to no end.

The picnic sounds fun!

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

I never went to prom. But my senior year I made a special fancy dinner for my girlfriend. We intended to spend the evening watching movies and just being together. My mom and dad were both working and my little sisters were spending the night at friends' houses.

Then one of my sisters got arrested running across the runway (we lived on an Air Force base), and dad had to pick her up from the police station and my girlfriend spent the whole night talking to my little sister and the food got cold.

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

Umm, all that happened on prom night, by the way. We decided that since we both worked to earn our spending money it wasn't worth it to blow it on expensive clothes for one night. We went on a lot of dates for what prom would have cost us.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

That would be a rather memorable prom night.

[kimmaline.livejournal.com]

You are under zero obligation to believe the same thing as your parents. I'm definitely a liberal, but I also believe that I have enough family values to stuff an ox.

I was going to say elephant...but you know...

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Actually, under the Vietnamese system, I am under 100% obligation to believe the same thing as my parents. But the American system says I am under 0% obligation to believe the same thing as my parents. So I compromise at 50%, ergo my moderate position.

I lean to the right, though, because my family>>society.