Reunions, Acronyms, Names (WAS Blackout, intellectual snobbery)

[Cindy C.]

Tabouli wrote:
 
> The same goes for the ol' high school reunion.  I chickened out of 
mine too (1999).  At the time I was studying, unmarried, 
impoverished, and miserable with where my life was.  Couldn't face 
the thought of all the smug sheltered rich girls I went to school 
with milling about comparing scores in bitchy one-upping fashion.>  

I think I know what is going on here.  You folks weren't sufficiently 
geeky and homely in high school, that's the problem.  Consequently, 
your classmates had every reason to expect great things, so you worry 
that you might not measure up.

I, on the other hand, was exceptionally geeky and homely in high 
school, and I have pictures to prove it.  There was nowhere to go but 
up.  So when I show up at my 10 and 20 year (gulp!) reunions, people 
were slack-jawed.  They exclaimed, "My God, we all thought you were 
completely hopeless!" and "How much did all this cost?"  I just 
swelled with pride.  :-)

Tabouli wrote:

> 
> A.P.H.R.O.D.I.T.E.: Association Proudly Honouring Rearing 
Offspring - Definitely Involves Time and Effort!
> 
> M.I.N.E.R.V.A.: Motherhood Is Not Easy - Reject Vacuity 
Accusations! (for the McGonagall fan)
> 
> V.I.S.I.G.O.T.H.: Vanquish Iniquitous Slander Implicating Goddesses 
Of The Home!
> 
> C.A.T.F.A.M.I.L.I.A.R.: Children Are The Future, And Motherhood 
Involves Labour, Imagination And Responsibility.
> 

I bow down and worship you, Tabouli!  Sign me up for 
C.A.T.F.A.M.I.L.I.A.R. 

If truth be told, though, being a mom has been the most fun I have 
ever had in my life.  Nothing else comes close.  Had I known what a 
blast it is, I would have done it 10 years earlier.  Maybe I'm not 
entitled to be in a support group, then.  

As stay-at-home mom, I know exactly what the other domestic goddesses 
are saying.  But I tried the "I'll have kids and a big career too" 
thing for about 4 years and it wasn't worth it, to me anyway.  I was 
a middling mom and a middling employee, which wasn't a happy place to 
be.  So hang in there, ladies!


Tabouli again:

> Grinning whimsically to myself, I took up the dictionary and made a 
list.  I toyed briefly with Tahini, but eventually decided on my 
favorite spelling of a Middle Eastern salad dominated by parsley and 
burghur (?) wheat, widely available in Lebanese and Turkish 
restaurants (and, these days, supermarket salad bars).  A much 
fuller, more playful sound, I decided.  Hence...
> 

I think I need a cool handle.  I love sushi, so maybe I should 
be "Wasabi."

Nah.

Cindy