#ooc

true!

Shady- by puddles, you mean she's crying hard or asleep?

Of course, Shady maybe asleep 🙂

Could be both.

Either way.

She might have just peed on the floor....

I did not, Miriam... well, let's go with a lot of scotch and regrets....

But good progress made!

My question, is how can she not see how much Zara wants her? Z's practically a puppy dog when she's around

I think she sees it but is scared that Zara is wearing rose colored lenses and when she sees the REAL Miriam, she'll be broken hearted

It's ironic, it's kind of like where Zara and Earl were ..but reversed. Zara was sure Earl would see her as she really was, and recoil for a time

true

I mean, Zara surely loves Hirim - despite all his Hirim-ness...

I think Earl has decided nockers are best in small doses 😉 he tries to appease them, as he's appeasing by nature at times- and Nockers just don't respond to that.

Nope

Thing is, about nocker flaws - people often overplay them

they're minor, they usually don't affect function

Now Clem is more 'Well, that's just silly" and holds her ground.

they just irritate the dreck out of their creators

I think I'm guilty of that at times. I have nocker inventions do weird stuff on too large a scale

And that's the thing. Miriam is a nocker, and she sees that she is less-than-perfect, and that irritates the hell out of her. With parenting, that means Really High Stakes, so how can she dare touch these kids and possibly fuck them up more? What gives her the right? One she already abandoned as an infant (through no fault of her own), and the other she flat-out forgot. How do you come back from that as a mom?

well, rule of cool

oh yes

And Zara is a teenager, which is not easy.

Not easy to deal with, not easy to be

Nope!

"I am feeling the feelings no one is feeling or has ever felt in the history of the WORLD!"- Angry daughter storms off

"Oscar, Oscar" Mother reaches for wine glass

heh

That's why I won't let my students write poetry about love. It's all SO trite and cliche, but they're all convinced it's authentic and unique.

Your best hope is that one kid with that rare dash of self awareness to have fun with a parody. :0)

The future next Meatloaf as it were "I would do anything for love- but I won't do that" 🙂

Makes me wonder if Rahne would loathe or love Z in her classroom...

HA

Every once in a while I get a truly reflective student, who sees the world in honest detail and can make a clear and relevant statement. I think Z might be that kind of student.

If she'd ever actually participate in class.

I can see her listening patiently through a Socratic seminar, and then demanding to speak to me privately after class about how everybody else is WRONG.

ha!

I suspect she doesn't talk in class. One on one? Sure. Impassioned written exercises?

But she won't raise her hand and freezes when called on

I can imagine, though, a class discussion (not teacher led) where she finally hits her limit and manages to rasp out, "But don't you see?! It's all perfectly obvious! Why, here on page 327...."

And all the other students would be like, "Wait, she can talk???"

Okay, I have to go and do college stuff (which I've left to the last minute this week). See ya!

seeya!

Damn it.

Fucking thing froze up for 15 minutes

My lap top is effectively a paperweight