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04:21:2002 Entry: "Night of the Living Parental Phone Calls"

Night of the Living Parental Phone Calls

Wow, this is a weird search request: "online diary of a male with no valentine's cards in 2002. I'm no. 2.

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A gripe about the broadcast of the Olympic pairs figure skating and ice dancing: Why do they always focus on the woman's face at the beginning and end of the performance? Isn't that rather sexist? Why only show her emotions? Do they think the viewing audience doesn't want to see the men? Well I, for one, do! This year's ice dancers (the guys) are especially attractive IMHO. If they do show them, it's only for a fraction of a second. Someone fire the camera people.

Oh, and here's something weird too. Stan talked to his dad last night (This is Stan's biological dad that he met just last year...Stan's adopted dad is deceased), and well, let's just say he has some looney ideas to put it nicely. He thinks that the country's going to go through the biggest depression ever, (he's into weird biblical prophecy stuff) and that our house assessment is wildly overrated and we should sell our house now and stash the money (um...where do we live?!?). He thinks that our refinancing will make us go bankrupt. Um....okay...did you know, though, that if you do go bankrupt, student loans do not get counted? So if we didn't refinance the student loans into the mortgage and went bankrupt, not only would we have no place to live, we'd still have $500 of student loans to pay back every month. At least with them in the mortgage, we'd only be out a place to live (plus have a larger tax write-off). A while back he sent us some literature (by some latter day biblical prophet, no doubt) suggesting that people should sell their homes and move in with their parents (whose mortgages are paid for?). Riiighhhtt. And I'm sure they'd like that too (NOT). Where do these people come up with these ideas? What's sad is that Stan's dad is very intelligent, easier to talk to than most dads (until he gets on a weird tangent) and certainly not the stereotypical kind of person you think of when you think of whacky bible prophecies...he's not living in a compound in the hills with a bunch of AK47s and attack dogs. His house has a rather modern pop decor sensibility, and he listens to classical music. He's an eccentric (so are we). He taught physics for a while, but I guess the weird bible thing (not to mention his tangent of holocaust revisionism...aaack) got the best of him. It's too bad, really.

Oh, and Stan also talked to his biological mom last night too, and she'd like to have us come visit her in New England soon (long story as to why we didn't earlier). I hope we can do it this year...I hope Stan can meet his grandmother (his grandfather just died the other week). I really want to go back and see New England and see the place I lived when I was six and seven.