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Got a really a rather lovely email from an old old friend. Old IS gold. Although that makes us sound rather ancient and maybe at the ripe old age of 25 we are on our way to the grave... sigh. Those memories of RGS. I remember once when we were in tuition class, and then the tuition teacher gave us some coke (at precisely 4pm he would wheel out the coke which predictably was the only thing we had been looking forward to in the whole class and of course there was never more than one glass precisely per person) and then she told us a joke and I started laughing and then coke snorted out of my nose and she cupped her hands to receive it! (So it wouldn't flow out and make a gigantic mess and earn the wrath of the tuition master) My sister was also in the same class and she was aghast at my antics, and said that Blood is NOT thicker than water and she would never do that to save my ass! That is true friendship peeps. A defining moment in my early childhood. Anyway it was awesome to hear she's doing really well!

So had an interesting conversation with my father last night which started out innocently enough discussing graduate school and whether I had filed acceptances or not (there's this old chestnut in my family of how once my sister accepted a University of Michigan offer a day late and the University refused her admission and therefore changed her whole life, which in retrospect it really didnt) ... and then came the rather forced casual stunner: So what am I to say when i get marriage proposals for you?

(WHATTT!!! I screeched. I am NOT interested in getting married. blah blah blah)

"There are people here who are more educated than you and know more than you and can see further down the line. Don't think you know everything. Marriage is important etc."/

" Just tell them I am not interested in getting married"

"You're not young anymore. You're an adult and you have certain responsibilities. It's time to fulfil them. I'm going to tell them that you are studying right now, but after you graduate this will NO longer be a joke"

I put the phone down, grumpily and suddenly feeling rather frightened.