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But Then You Are Very Small . . .
August 25, 2003, 9:49 p.m. Sif came to visit today, which was all very exciting. She was afraid that my friends would be scary, but as I pointed out, she towered over us all, so could hardly feel intimidated by us : ) I fear I didn’t show her as good a time as I could have, as we had to sit through two unfortunately boring lectures. But then we went for coffee with Eledhwen and Sixten (Melodrama having begged off busy with assignments) and that was a lot of fun. Sixy’s life is a bit of a soap-opera, fascinating and full of secrets and lies. It’s funny how well I get on with Sixten, considering her opinions and lifestyle seem so radically different from mine. She enthusiastically embraces conformity, while I at least say I’m an individual; she openly admits to her traditionalism, whereas I prefer to consider myself as a forward-thinking liberalist. We had an excellent debate this evening, walking Sif back to Central station – she was asking me how, if by some freak chance I fell pregnant and decided not to terminate it, I would raise my child. I said I’d try to teach them to make good, independent decisions and then let them go – I wouldn’t punish or reprimand or ban anything – and she was slightly horrified. She wanted to know what I’d do if they turned out ‘wrong’. Personally, I think if I’ve given them all the skills required to make responsible choices, they won’t turn out ‘wrong’, and if they do it’s their fault and up to them to fix themselves. Of course, this just proves that I’m not a mother, as no mother would just say “You got yourself into this mess, now get yourself out of it.” But then, I don’t want to be. Oh dear, I did start off intending to talk about Sif and her visit, but I seem to have digressed . . . Well, Sif reminds me strongly in physical appearance of one of the Elf-boy’s friends. I wish I had thought to bring my camera to take a photo of her. It was fairly easy to talk to her, and I think she fitted well into my group of friends (although she may have been a bit freaked out by Eledhwen and me, we do tend to go a bit crazy). She looked very cute in her huge Eskimo (or should that be Inuit?) coat, to protect her against the cruel biting cold of Sydney winter (while we were all desperately pulling off coats and scarves to combat the sudden heat – but then, she is a Queenslander). I gave that speech today – the one I hadn’t done last night. It went swimmingly : ) I love the way I can just bullshit my way through tute presentations – although I still have to write up a thousand word paper to go with it, but I’m sure I can bullshit my way through that too. I have another tute presentation, for a different subject, to give on Wednesday, but that doesn’t have a tute paper attached to it, so I’m not too fussed. Although I do have to hand in some notes with it, so I probably should start work on it soon. And all the other assignments and essays and shit I have to do. *sigh*
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