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This is the Journal of FG << Flotsam and Jetsam Debt-free and Nervous >> Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 3, 2003 by FG   Posting 1 At dinner the other night, my best friend reminded me that I am now officially "thirty-something", not unlike the whiny yuppie twits on the television program of the same name. My response to this observation was to make a barfing noise. This program initially went on air when I was a sophomore in high school. I loathed it. If I ever start acting like any of those self-indulgent nitwits, somebody kill me. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 3, 2003 by Montana Redhead (now with letters) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 Don't worry, we will. But so far, no weird desires for smarminess have invaded your space. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 3, 2003 by Montana Redhead (now with letters) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 And oh, yeah. Check your email. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 3, 2003 by FG This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 The creators of that show were definitely smarmy. I hated it even more after I read Susan Faludi's "Backlash". That show, more than any other at the time, put the idea out that women have to choose between a career and motherhood. And let's not mention the popularization of the "biological clock". Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 4, 2003 by Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 5 Congrats on your birthday! I assume you still celebrate them? You share your birthday with a great man, my father. He was 85 yesterday, there was also a New Moon, and my 3-year anniversary with seti@home, and the 25th anniversary of the day I left full-time work to have my older daughter. My head is full of useless trivia, which is what happens to forty-somethings. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 4, 2003 by Montana Redhead (now with letters) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 6 What I always wanted to know is why the men were ALWAYS whiny, and the women always these stoic things (except my namesake, of course, who was just neurotic). My mom loved the show. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 4, 2003 by FG This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 7 Why thank you AGB for the inside info! March 3rd is also noteworthy for being the birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Jean Harlow, Lou Reed and one of my favorite British actresses, Miranda Richardson. It is also the day in 1931 when the Star Spangled Banner was adopted as the American national anthem, the day when Florida became a state and the anniversary of the Rodney King beating. Your father and I are in interesting company indeed. Were the women always stoic? Seemed to me they were always obsessing over their need to get pregnant. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 4, 2003 by Montana Redhead (now with letters) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 8 Oh, that might be true. But the blonde one, she was always stoic. Through breast cancer and a cheating whiny husband...geez, it was either ice princess or drama queen. Never any happy medium. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Thirtysomething Posted Mar 4, 2003 by FG This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 9 But of course, that's how women are...madonna, whore...take your pick. Conversation list Conversation list

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