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[electricland]

It doesn't help, of course, that the media flavour of the month -- Failure to Launch, those damn cheese ads,* a study -- is Adult Children Who (Still) Live With Their Parents. Apparently there are subcategories. Adult Children Who Moved Out And Then Came Back (hi!) are "boomerang" children. Greeeeeaaaaat.

But I just made a connection in my brain today: we're having a census this year. I am NOT living with my parents on census day, dammit! I just am not!

(Which still gives us until May 16. One-year anniversary is April 21, and Jen swears she'll go insane if this takes us longer than a year. That's... 3 weeks, 3 days from now!)

*That link was going to be to the original Globe and Mail story,** but it's behind their firewall as usual. Fine then, Globe and Mail! No link for you!
**Incidentally, you can usually read the full Globe story if you Google for some keywords and click from the Google results page. Anyone else noticed that? And (now that I've said it) should I have maintained the conspiracy of silence?

Comments

[metawidget]

It's been wafting through my awareness, that boomerang/still there phenomenon.

I'll be living singly on census day, which is pretty unrepresentative for the past five years, and if all goes well, just as unrepresentative of the next five. Even a census is a sample, in a way, I guess.

[swestrup]

I often Google for keywords of a document that is behind a firewall or archive system. Its been getting much harder lately because of

a) Damn automated blogging systems that just all echo each other's lists of articles of the day.

b) Double-damned secondary search engines that leech off of Google searches in an attempt to get you to look at them. They NEVER point anywhere useful. They usually don't even have the link they claimed to have.

hey!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

boomerangs aren't all bad!

and how did I not know that JJ's birthday is your house anniversary??

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

{{{{hugs}}}} i'm thinking that families "having" to live so far apart is a fairly new cultural development? although i don't want to generalize it strikes me that family structure has changed in the past 100 years or so....

*more hugs*

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

*groan* I know, and I am SO applying for internships-with-residency everywhere to try and avoid being One Of Them, but... it's still weird, this sudden enormous social pressure to be Out Of The House.

(For reference, my parents are kinda old for an early-twenties girl, because they had me late).

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

As one who will shortly be one of those boomerang children, this is definitely not by choice. (As in, if I had my "druthers," I'd rather still be where I'm at or at least possess enough money to stick it out here in Delaware.) Moving back in with Mom is going to be as temporary as I can make it, not only for my sanity but hers as well.