Saturday, September 03, 2005

Leave of Absence

Well, that was interesting.

I've just gotten back from spending a few days in the only place, presumably, that I can't just open my laptop and find myself on a wireless network—my parents' house.

I mean, I am leaving and taking their soon-to-be grandchild 900 miles away. I really wanted to visit for a bit before we left.

My head is swimming with so many different things, and honestly all I should really do is go back to sleep. The one thought that keeps swimming through my head is:

"How, exactly, do you live in the same house with two people for 18 years and end up completely in accord with them on half of the things that come up, and absolutely diametrically opposed to them on the other half?"

I mean, there's no middle ground. None. I'm either nodding my head as they speak, or trying not to argue with them. Weird. Very weird.

1 comment:

Tom said...

In general, as you said very early on, you aren't much with the shades of gray.