This diary has been sitting as an incomplete draft in my queue for over a month. I've been thinking for a while about how I would talk about this. Today, I realized that I would talk about this at Daily Kos that same way I have discussed this with friends and family and even my students. I'll state the facts and crack some jokes.
So WTF is this diary? Honestly, I'm not sure. I just really want to share this. I have so many friends here who don't know this side of me. I'd like them to know my quirky side. For those of you who might be suffering, maybe you can find some comfort. And I guess I hope that everyone can find it informative and humorous. Yes, humorous. This weekend, I had dinner with some friends and the host said that we could not enter the "Crazy Aunt" room and it reminded me of this clip from Designing Women.
I'm not from the South. I grew up in Upper Appalachia, but this quote definitely applies to my family. In fact, when the discussion of the "Crazy Aunt" room began at dinner, I jokingly noted that if my family hid the crazy people away at Thanksgiving, the only people sitting at the dining room table would be my father, my uncle, and my cousin. Anyway, I hope that by the end of this post that you can see how very blessed I am. And how humor is pretty much my only defense mechanism (now that they've taken alcohol away, but that's another diary).