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Nov. 28th, 2016 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotAhhh, back home from Thanksgiving. Actually, real-family Thanksgiving on Sunday was very low-key and very enjoyable. It was Melissa's brother and SIL who are clueless people with dickish bootstrappy opinions. The SIL is also from NJ and has an obnoxious, stereotypically NJ personality. I used to find being with Melissa's family a nice change from my mother's because my aunt and uncle were always kind of annoying and defensive, and my cousins were ... difficult to be around (one is pretty autistic and one is just plain weird), and my grandmother is very nice and pleasant, but not an engaging conversationalist. Melissa's family were louder and more fun. But there's a tendency there to puff up their kids as prodigies, and Melissa's mother likes to control the conversation (in a positive way, but I hate when the table is supposed to be one big conversation, which leaves me either sitting silently or having to declaim to everyone - I want to be involved in small conversations) and also listens with this air of "say something meaningful to me" which makes me anxious, and the SIL is awful, and Melissa's brother only talks about his work dealing in dental implants. Meanwhile, my cousins are in college and much more relatable (well, the autistic one has developed an interest in mid-20th century material culture and joins in conversations, and the other has stopped clamoring for attention at all times), my aunt and uncle have mellowed way out, and my grandmother may not be sharp but she's sweet.
And when you get down to it, Melissa's family is just much more upper-middle-class than we are. I don't pretend to have all the American class signifiers sorted out, but they're very casual about going on expensive vacations and buying expensive things and the importance of making money, and it's nice to be with people that seem to be in the same place as us, where I don't feel like an outsider or a pauper.
In other news, Owen's kind of spoiled Westworld by coming up with a theory that seems to be exceptionally correct. The show runs in two timelines/timeframes: the one with Will and Dolores is earlier, and the man in black with Teddy is later, because Will becomes the man in black. I think Maeve is also later?
This rests in part with the Host who greeted Will before he got into the real Westworld area being the same one Teddy and the MiB found in the woods; the MiB noted that he thought they'd have retired her years ago. ETA: I'd like to note that he told me this over the weekend, before the most recent episode, which pretty much confirms it.
And when you get down to it, Melissa's family is just much more upper-middle-class than we are. I don't pretend to have all the American class signifiers sorted out, but they're very casual about going on expensive vacations and buying expensive things and the importance of making money, and it's nice to be with people that seem to be in the same place as us, where I don't feel like an outsider or a pauper.
In other news, Owen's kind of spoiled Westworld by coming up with a theory that seems to be exceptionally correct. The show runs in two timelines/timeframes: the one with Will and Dolores is earlier, and the man in black with Teddy is later, because Will becomes the man in black. I think Maeve is also later?
This rests in part with the Host who greeted Will before he got into the real Westworld area being the same one Teddy and the MiB found in the woods; the MiB noted that he thought they'd have retired her years ago. ETA: I'd like to note that he told me this over the weekend, before the most recent episode, which pretty much confirms it.
