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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60429)	8/30/2001 5:02:40 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Maurice, The first syndrome would be a whole lot easier to take if the second syndrome weren't happening concurrently! You know, I don't want to shock the people who think I am Earth Mom incarnate, but this Home Alone thing isn't all bad. I am finally watching movies with absolutely not one drop of blood or one alien lifeform in them. I can cook tofu without having being subjected to a barrage of gagging noises, and the bathrooms seem to be almost self-cleaning. I have the boys trained to ICQ me every day or so with one sentence so I know they are alive and that suffices to put my mind at ease. I think I miss all the little people they were, all the different stages... but perhaps there will still be stories and memories to add. This isn't necessarily like falling into a childless abyss. In fact, the other night as I poured a glass of wine and prepared to broil a small steak and watch a movie of my own choice (Dan was out of town), the little ICQ voice called out UHOH! (the signal that someone has called- if you are not an ICQ user). It was Ammo; he had a monologue due the next day and he couldn't remember his audition one, and did I remember it? Or would I search his room for it? Or call someone? Just do something! HELLLP, MOM!!!! It took an hour, but I located a copy of the play right there on campus at one of the USC libraries. So he's not gone at all--he's just invisible. He has joined the ranks of my cyber-family.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60429)	8/30/2001 5:32:55 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 71178

Rambi, empty nest syndrome. We baby-boomers up to our necks in it. Not to mention Sudden Wealth Converted to Sudden Poverty Syndrome [due to dot.bomb and techwreck]. I was with you until the brackets. I thought you were correlating empty nest syndrome and sudden poverty with the appearance in our lives of college tuitions. Without those, i would have retired four years ago. With three in college, not a prayer. The only reason I'm still working is so I can pay all those profs to teach one four hour class a term and spend the rest of their time reading and writing books, which is what I would be doing if I weren't working my little (well not so little but littler than it was before I started working out last year) butt off so my money can let them do what I want to do.