Comments on: Main Street: Best Friends http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/ the best friends you'll never have Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: dsharpe113 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/#comment-2959 dsharpe113 Wed, 28 May 2008 22:35:29 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/#comment-2959 Muaha, I just got this book, but I haen't finished it. I noticed the Annika Lindgren thing too... i did a "wait a second" especially since i rediscovered my love of Pippi Longstocking recently. Muaha, I just got this book, but I haen’t finished it. I noticed the Annika Lindgren thing too… i did a “wait a second” especially since i rediscovered my love of Pippi Longstocking recently.

]]> By: wanderingfrog http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/#comment-2936 wanderingfrog Fri, 23 May 2008 00:42:49 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/#comment-2936 I noticed the Annika Lindgren thing, too (seriously, how could you NOT?) and I totally meant to mention it on the boards, but I forgot. Hee. I was always partial to Lindgren's book <i>Mischievous Meg</i>, myself, more so than Pippi Longstocking. I know, I'm weird. I've got to say, though, that it's totally possible to be middle class when one's dad is a partner in a law firm. Because my dad was, and we were middle class. Not rich, not "upper middle class" or anything like that. Admittedly, my mom was a SAHM so we were a one-income family, which I suppose makes a difference. Also, you know how the stereotype of the legal aid lawyer is as close to being "poor and downtrodden" as a practicing lawyer can possibly get? Well, that's not necessarily true, either. My dad works for legal aid now, and he earns considerably more than he did before. This stuff depends a lot on geographical location, so your point is of course valid when it comes to the BSC: if you are partner in a law firm in an affluent area of Connecticut, you're probably making plenty of money. It just really used to annoy me how kids would inform me that I was rich because my dad was a lawyer when I was not, in fact, rich. I noticed the Annika Lindgren thing, too (seriously, how could you NOT?) and I totally meant to mention it on the boards, but I forgot. Hee. I was always partial to Lindgren’s book Mischievous Meg, myself, more so than Pippi Longstocking. I know, I’m weird.

I’ve got to say, though, that it’s totally possible to be middle class when one’s dad is a partner in a law firm. Because my dad was, and we were middle class. Not rich, not “upper middle class” or anything like that. Admittedly, my mom was a SAHM so we were a one-income family, which I suppose makes a difference. Also, you know how the stereotype of the legal aid lawyer is as close to being “poor and downtrodden” as a practicing lawyer can possibly get? Well, that’s not necessarily true, either. My dad works for legal aid now, and he earns considerably more than he did before. This stuff depends a lot on geographical location, so your point is of course valid when it comes to the BSC: if you are partner in a law firm in an affluent area of Connecticut, you’re probably making plenty of money. It just really used to annoy me how kids would inform me that I was rich because my dad was a lawyer when I was not, in fact, rich.

]]> By: Jenn http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/#comment-2934 Jenn Wed, 21 May 2008 03:39:26 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2008/05/16/main-street-best-friends/#comment-2934 AHAHAHA, there is a character named Anneke Lindgren? I AM GOING TO DIE LAuGHING OVER HERE. DIE. AHAHAHA, there is a character named Anneke Lindgren? I AM GOING TO DIE LAuGHING OVER HERE. DIE.

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