an email from C's mom contained this gem:

Oh, Woodshole, a wonderful place, a very place where they pick gems.
They are looking at you. So you are looking at them too.
Have great harvest! You lucky girl! Hope you learn a great deal more!

my mom writes:

In San Francisco, there are a lot of gays or people with AID. Try to avoid any lab with AID research. If you are not careful in the lab, you may get infected with AID. That is not worthwhile for you.

After a lengthy "oh yeah? well my mom is worse than yours because.." conversation with Dan this weekend, I have come to the conclusion that there are two types of people in this world: those who hate their parents and those who don't. You can have a crazy mom that you don't hate. I'm not sure if you can have a non-crazy mom that you hate.

a cornucopia of emails

First, a couple inexplicable emails that C received from her mom:

From: C's mom
To: C
Subject: Blessed by MIT

You were so very beautiful. Do you have recent photos for me? such as working at the lab.

and then this one (what does the subject mean??):

From: C's mom
To: C
Subject: 1 month at ki.

Damned, another airplane attack is around in the summer!

And then today's addition from my mom, who enjoys simply declaring my desires:

I got a picture of A-- and P-- [ed: my sister] a week ago from A--'s Sprint cell phone. Her new cell phone has a built-in camera. It is pretty good. I can see how P-- was doing in Pittsburgh. Aunt E-- bought this for A-- for her to send pictures from her college. I went to see whether verizon has this kind of phone. Verizon also has this kind of phone with built-in camera. Verizon has promotion plan now till 8/3. You will only pay $2.99/mo additional to send 20 pictures. This will be very good idea when you go to California. You can send us pictures.

Since Verizon has 1000 minutes allowance per month between verizon users, both I and P-- have the same plan of $39.99 per month which is national plan with unlimited night and weekend, 400 min anytime,1000 min between users. Do you have any Verizon store nearby? We will pay the phone and the monthly fee for you.