apprentice_lurk ([personal profile] apprentice_lurk) wrote2007-08-23 09:10 pm

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((You know Camden Market, yes? The weird, twisting streets under the railway where you can find the strangest oddities in dark corners and under neon lights, the smoke-blackened bricks and the creeping, lingering sense of the Victorean underbelly?

They're bulldozing half of it to stick in a shopping mall.

The petition's been around for a while. It ends on the ninth of September. In the name of anything even slightly metahuman possessing a scrap of decency, or at least a vague impression of it, put your name down and tell No. 10 how stupid this is!))

[identity profile] ravenology.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
No-one ever said my mom made sense. *shrugs* And she's still scared over the 7-7 incident that happened a few years back. She's easily frightened, poor thing. And paranoid to boot.

[identity profile] seiberwing.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my. I assume she'll never let you go to America, then.

[identity profile] ravenology.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Not until after I graduate and have a mortgage, probably. She only let me go to New York in 2005 because I practically forced her to by saying Rachel had already booked tickets for the whole robotics team, including me, so I "had" to go.

I got home and found out she'd been worrying herself sick in my absence, despite my telling her NOT to worry when I left for the airport. I encouraged her to enjoy the freedom while I wasn't around to make a nuisance of myself, I told her I'd be having fun, I told her to not worry and that I loved her.

It didn't make any difference. She still couldn't stop herself from worrying. I don't know if I could put her through that again.