Oddly, I had exactly the opposite problem (if you can even call it a problem) with my parents, particularly my father, when I was in high school. He had (still has!) the irritating habit of staunchly insisting that I Can Do Anything I Put My Mind To, even when whatever it is, is patently not possible. (In the interest of full disclosure, he may mean it more figuratively than I sometimes choose to interpret it. :)
I know, first-world problem. In fact, it occurred to me earlier tonight, as I was sitting at a picnic table outside a Chinese food stand over in East, basking in the balmy evening while I waited for my teriyaki beef, that pretty much all my problems, except arguably my flaky electrical wiring, are first-world problems. I have to try and keep that in mind when I confront the annoyances of the university bureaucracy - there are a lot of people who'd love the chance to be getting a hassle like that.
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Date: 2010-08-13 02:37 am (UTC)I know, first-world problem. In fact, it occurred to me earlier tonight, as I was sitting at a picnic table outside a Chinese food stand over in East, basking in the balmy evening while I waited for my teriyaki beef, that pretty much all my problems, except arguably my flaky electrical wiring, are first-world problems. I have to try and keep that in mind when I confront the annoyances of the university bureaucracy - there are a lot of people who'd love the chance to be getting a hassle like that.