Attention gotten, questions asked
I posted a couple of pictures from Croatia to my Orkut profile.
The ones with me in them. The rest I'll figure out where to upload later.
And finally Inês turns up with a spare moment (which just ended). Mostly asking about the trip of course, but I had a couple of other things to get an opinion on. Namely, that my mother really doesn't believe that any of this can end well. (compare with my reasoning that if she wanted someone to lure, and then destroy, she would have moved on to easier prey long ago.) I try to tell her that with a more outward-looking specialty and a more central location, she has the smarts to reel in more prominent people (referencing Sanford- Chapur)... of course, that gets the conversation off track, my point was simply that with better aim, she could have grabbed someone much better suited to herself that just me... and then this:
gostaria muito de ter uma pessoa no meu lado, mas os homens brasileiros são muitos aventureiros
translation from her perspective: she wants someone by her side, but Brazilian men are very adventurous...
I ask if maybe it's an over-correction to go after someone who wouldn't know where else to turn, a fish out of water as it were?
Some time ago, I was asked how emotionally invested I was/ was willing to get. As far as I can figure, when this started I had no emotional capital to speak of. Mom has just tried to force a margin call. But who did I borrow the invested capital from?
Uh-oh... Now I'm really over a barrel...
(Now trying to type in several places at once...) in response to that last part and my contention that Inês has taught me more understanding of the human condition than I would have known by other means:
Realmente depois dessas palavras, nunca poderá dizer que tenho intenções erradas para com você
"Truly after such words, I could never say that I had any ill intentions towards you"
followed by confirmation of my logic from before.
And as far as my mother's opinions: Inês declares that Mom has to step up first, as if I could change her mind unaided. I doubt that'll work...





