Sometimes I want to kill my family

[the_wanlorn]

So, I got woken up this morning by Mum and Kerry having a shouting match outside my door. The gist of it was that Mum really doesn't want either of us ever. leaving. Assachusetts. I'm fine with that because most of my friends are staying here. So I applied to colleges near home/them. I chose to go to the one that would have the most of my highschool friends near me. My sister doesn't care about any of that, though, so she's going far away. They start out arguing about visiting colleges and which ones she's going to visit. She wants to go to school in South Carolina. Fine and dandy, good for her. Mum is Not Pleased. So she's hedging about the whole deal and Kerry's going "W. T. F. I am not staying around here so STFU." I'm lying half-awake in bed now, listening to them go at it, and thinkiing that this is exactly the opposite of what I told Mum to do if she wanted any chance of Kerry staying around here. Glad that my family listens to advice they solicit. And here's where it gets good. Mum tells Kerry that campuses in South Carolina are very... diverse. Kerry makes the expected "WTF are you going on about?" comment and it is revealed that, oh my gods, not everyone's white, so she shouldn't go there. ... Yeah, read that again. Yeah. But I shoulda seen it coming cuz this is the same woman who told me after orientation that she was glad that it was a mostly white campus. So Kerry goes, "Um, what the fuck? Just because you're racist doesn't mean I am." Insert stock "I'm not racist!" responses from Mum and attempts at backpedalling. Kerry has a lovely, "Why does it matter that I like other people? Jesus Christ!" line. So, now they're actually shouting instead of just calling across the house to each other. Which means I can hear it perfectly well when Mum says, "Yeah, well, when you go to visit SC, don't just pay attention to the campus. Erin didn't want to go to Trinity when she found out what it was like." Which prompts me to shout out, "Excuse me? What the fuck are you talking about? Last time I checked, you weren't me and you didn't have mindreading powers so shut the fuck up about what you don't know about." I mean, what? MUM was the one who didn't want me to go to Trinity. I actually really wanted to go because it was a smallish hippy-looking school. I chose not to because none of my friends were going to be near me*. Not because "OMG! It's in the middle of HARTFORD and there are BLACK PEOPLE and HISPANIC PEOPLE and and and OTHER SCARY NON-WASPS." So, with our powers combined, Kerry and I pwn her and she gives up and is all pissy. So I am victorious but now grumpy over how utterly retarded this family is. Please to be saving me from them? *Oh shut the fuck up already. I know that my reasons for choosing where to go to college are horrendous. I don't give a fuck.

Comments

[musicalpeep.livejournal.com]

I WOULD BE NEAR YOU IF YOU WENT TO TRINITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry I just felt like joining in the shouting party.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

You would!!!

And I sat there thinking "Okay. If I go to Trinity, I'm near Rosemary. If I go to Boston I'm near Ariel and Tom. But it's Rosemary! But it's two people instead of one... But Rosemary! But... two people... OH NOES I CAN'T DECIDE!!!"

But then I heard about honor dorms and the decision was made for me. ;-)

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