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My amazing disappearing roommate is off again, this time for three weeks working on a cruise ship, in what will no doubt go down in history as the fastest job ever - she auditioned for a group that provides musicians for cruise ships, hotels and casinos on Monday, they called her yesterday afternoon with a job, and she's flying out TODAY!! She's an emergency pianist!

So I get the apartment to myself for a while. Sadly, it's too cold to be naked.

In other news, I'm pretty sure the BPAL order that ate Toronto (my VISA bill is a scary place to be this month) is languishing at the border. This article is referring to Western Canada, but I have no doubt it's causing backlash over here as well. Although it could just be that the 90-odd imps (no, they are not all mine - I am now the local dealer) caused a bit of a breakdown at the perfume factory. Whatever the cause, though, they are not here, and I am sad.

We watched Thirteen on Tuesday. Oh, ouch. It's an excellent movie, and the performances are stellar, but so depressing! If I had had any inclination to have kids one day, that would have killed it right there. It's just, what do you do? What can you do? I had a really hard time sleeping that night, because I was worried for 13-year-old girls everywhere. I wish I could help in some way, become a youth counsellor or something, but I can't even talk to people my own age, let alone teenagers. Plus I'm sure they'd see me as the lamest of the lame.

Ok, now I'm really depressed again.

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My dealer just got the CCNow confirmation, so I think I shall see imps soon!

Thirteen was very depressing. I still can't figure out how the Mom could have really been that clueless.

I'm sure part of it was that she didn't know what to do about it, so she let herself be clueless. It was such a huge turnaround for the daughter, that the mom was probably just watching in bewilderment, waiting for things to right themselves, and telling herself it was just normal teenage acting up.

But, god, I would have no idea what to do in a situation like that. None.

Lock her in a basement?

Send her to boarding school?

I'm clueless too. I don't even know what to do with my kitty when he misbehaves.

*shrug*

My parents and I watched "Thirteen". The parents are youth counsellors and we all hated that movie. The parentals thought it was way too over the top. I didn't even finish watching. I know I'm in the minority though, as most people seem to love it.

I haven't seen 13, largely because it didn't sound appealing, but based on what I read about it, it doesn't seem like it tracks with the reality of more than a small subset of girls that age.

I have a son, and he hasn't hit that age yet, but I think that if you just give your kids enough books and basic guidance, you can raise them to be the sort of geeks that a lot of this stuff goes around. They'll probably still be miserable (I think everyone is at 13), but they'll be miserable antisocial nerds, not miserable kids at parties where teenagers are playing w/ sex and drugs.

Yes, I'm being a little facetious here. But it worked for me and my sisters and my younger nieces. And I really do believe that despite peer pressure, you can usually raise your kids to have some common sense if you just set a good example and pay some attention to them.

And I think we're all proof that miserable anitsocial nerds can grow up to be pretty happy adults. :)

I think if I hadn't known that one of the girls was also the co-writer, and that it was based on her experiences, I definitely would have dismissed it as sensationalism. It was the fact that (presumably) it was based on real-life experiences that made it so powerful for me.