Sep 29 2005
If Sydney Bristow can do it, then so can I
Yesterday was one of those days where I just felt stretched, pulled, twisted, and left hanging. It was one of those days where I wonder, ?How the heck am I pulling this off?? And I think, ?This is just not working.?
The whole ?working mom? hat that I wear most days, it is looking grubby and tired (along with my house) and I just wanted to throw it away in frustration because I thought I just can?t go on any more. I wanted to scream, ?Somebody help me!?
And then, a thought hit me.
If Sydney Bristow can do it, then so can I.
Sydney has to go all over the world, saving us all from Evil and Doom. Tonight we will learn that she will have keep Evil at bay while pregnant. I can?t wait to see what kind of kick-ass shoes her swollen feet get shoved into.
And if the show continues with the current premise, she will have to save us all from Evil and Doom while stopping every two to three hours to breastfeed. Can you imagine Sydney with a baby in a Baby Bjorn, hot pink wig (for her and the baby), and swinging from a rooftop on a zip line with 5 seconds to spare before the bomb goes off? That is of course, if she plans to breastfeed, and that?s a decision for each family to make for themselves.
For me, yesterday was a rough day. I didn’t have to save the world from Evil, but I did have to save someone when they deleted a file and keep my son out of the dog food at the same time. The stretching, pulling, and twisting finally ended when I quit trying to focus on so many things and just took Fuller outside and let him swing in his little swing that Damon hung from the tree.
I just hope Sydney gets the same chance.
Well, if that is your inspiration, great. Seriously, whatever blows your skirt up and gets you through the day. But, in reality, I used to work for the CIA, and I did the “alias” type stuff too - not even kidding or embellishing. The truth of the matter is that a woman could have a baby and do most undercover CIA work just fine. Many do. Most CIA work is not that exciting, and it’s sort of a kabuki dance between government agencies overseas.
The other truth is that Alias is a bunch of TV bunk. You probably already know that because you seem relatively intelligent. Here’s a rule of thumb I learned a while back. With some exceptions, if it is cool and interesting…. (1) it isn’t that cool or interesting, and (2) the cooler and more interesting it is…. it probably pays poorly. At CIA I made about 42 to start. Whose on TV the most? Government secret agents, cops, and soldiers. They get paid peanuts. The exceptions, like doctors and lawyers, in most cases the shows are as far off as Alias. But, hey, who wants to watch a show about a guy who sells tires or lightbulbs and makes $200,000 a year. Anyway, just my aside. Isn’t that what a blog site is for anyway?
Regards
Mike
I was in the CIA too. But my life was just like TV. Seriously, you’ve got it all wrong, Mike.
Oh, really? You mock me. Please. How many escalators from the entrance level of the New building to the ground level of the old? Who is the statue of at the entrance to the old building by the (fill in the blank) shaped pavillion?
It’s not nice to mock. As Morrissey once sang, “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”
I kind of like Alli and her web/blog site. It’s interesting stuff for those of us who lack a distaff influence in life. And I was not lying or embellishing. If you really think I have it all wrong, how so, oh cute interlocutor?
Alli, my apoligies if I offended you.
M
Sydney will need a TV baby like Quiznos Baby Bob, http://www.quiznos.com/.
Have Fuller be FullerMan for Sydney and you can be The TV Mom on the set all over the world or FullerMan’s Super Nanny on the show.
Just think of the 007 Bond type weapons Sydney will have in her baby gear, this could be a whole new remix of baby brands for products, Huggies bullet proof diapers, you get the idea.
I was not meaning to mock, only to tease. I do believe you. My apologies.
But I will say 3 escalators.
Awww… Mello, thanks for your apology to Mike. I like it when we all try to be friends. And Mike, you have never offended me. (I think you are my first regular commenter who isn’t related to me or attended my one of my highschools.)
And I say that there are at least 5 escalators.
I know that Alias is all bunk. There is lots of imagination coming from J.J Abrams. But still, I need a role model from somewhere and Friends is no longer on the air. I don’t have any working mom friends.
Daddy, I think that Marshall has to have some of those 007 baby items on prototype with his little boy.
Oh, and how we all miss Freinds….. “How you do’in?”
Don’t fret. I watch West Wing like a fiend, and I know it cannot be that way in the White House. I mean, how could they be that calm with a tar-babby of a war like we have in Iraq?
By the way, there are six.
Mike