Friday, July 30, 2004 More on Laura Ingalls Wilder
Maybe I shouldn't mention this so publicly, but after a childhood of pro-Laura Ingalls Wilder indoctrination, I use her pioneer spirit as a way of shaming myself into doing mildly unpleasant tasks.
"Laura Ingalls Wilder would have made an entire pie from scratch, and then she would have had to scour the pan with DIRT," I'll remind myself when I am reluctant to wash the dishes.
I was going to go on with that bit, with something sidesplitting about how Laura Ingalls Wilder would be working on the long list of job-hunt related tasks that was before her, rather than wasting time on the internet, but then I remembered that instead of job hunting, Laura married the first boy with any interest in her and began to live out a life that mirrored the problematic dynamic between Ma and Pa. Also, the pioneers were so dumb that they didn't even have the internet. That's pretty dumb. Even libraries have the internet.
posted by Frenz | 7/30/2004 01:23:00 AM
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