Whew! Also, I'm Looking For Your Opinion.

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Wow, I'm tired now. Tired and satisfied, because I've been cleaning the house. Not just the dishes and stuff - I'm talking about the Martha Stewart/Holy Grail/This Old House kind of thing. My Mom arrives for a visit tomorrow night, so my normal procrastinating self has been shoved aside by this crazed person who wants her house to be "perfect" by the time Mom gets here.

It's good to have company every once in a while. Makes you actually get stuff done.



Speaking of Mom, she and my Favorite Sister (okay, she's my only sister) had a polite freak-out last weekend when I was telling them about visiting my friends in Florida. Seems they haven't gotten the memo that not everyone who is on the Internet is a rapist/murderer/child molester. So when they asked me where I had met these people and I my answer was "online," their eyes bugged out and later I was subjected to a mild interrogation by the Moms.

So, my first question of y'all tonight: what do YOU say when people ask you where you met your online friends?



I have another question for all of you SV fans, this one about Lana. I was thinking about all of the SV peers of Clark, and what lessons Clark learns from each of them. Pete teaches him about friendship and trust, and helps him scooby things. Chloe helps him with the scoobying and helps him develop his journalistic interest. Lex is teaching him all kinds of new things, from Greek mythology to how to deal with the girl of your dreams to corporate espionage and of course, trust and mistrust.

And Lana? Really, all I could come up with was guilt over smooshing her parents. But I thought that might be because of my intense dislike of Lana, so now I'm turning the question to all of you...what does Lana have to offer?

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The one time I told my mom I was going to meet some internet friends I got a similar freak out. Since then I've only been in a situation where I had to tell someone something one other time (I was visiting my RL very good friend and wanted to meet up with Rhi as well). I basically told the truth (I said I met her on MBTV, I didn't detail the porn), and it went fine. This weekend I actually think I will be facing a situation where I have to say something again. I'm going to say online again cause I hate to lie. We'll see how it goes.

Ok, I don't like Lana. And at first all I could come up with were sarcastic answers like, she teaches Clark that lots of people he saves will be ungrateful and whiny.

But, upon further reflection, I think what we're supposed to see Clark learning from Lana is that his special abilities are always going to prevent him from just being any other guy. He'd have gotten with Lana ages ago if he weren't Super. Think of all the times he's let Lana down cause he had to run off to save somebody. That's about putting his obligation to humanity above his own desires. And then there's the RedK incidents where because he has to protect his secret, and the people close to him, he can't explain himself to get out of trouble.

For Clark, Lana is about wanting what he can't have. Not for any simple, human reasons, but because who he is is bigger than his own wants.

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Your point is a good one. But I guess one of the reasons I don't like Lana is that she is such a passive character. It just seems to me that what she teaches Clark isn't because of anything she's doing except being pretty - everything else is up to Clark.

Ow, my brain doesn't have enough caffeine yet to explain my thoughts clearly. I guess I shouldn't have tried to be all smartlike so early in my day.