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muserevival2013-05-11 12:45 pm
thebiographer) wrote in muserevival2013-05-11 12:45 pm
028.1: family quote
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." - Anthony Brandt
First of all, hi, I'm Paige. I'm super new here. I hope this is kinda interesting? Not really sure. I'm better when I'm not talking about me.
Okay, so, answering your question.
It's like no secret that I'm kind of the black sheep of the Maxwell family. I mean, career-wise. Not that I got arrested on Campus PD wearing a road cone on my head or anything. Just that my sister's a corporate lawyer, and my dad's a pilot, and my mom works in airport security (that's how they met - whole other story), and here I am, a TV reporter with a Mace Windu lightsaber in her cubicle. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
I know my family would've liked to see me do something different. I think some part of every parent wants their kid to be a lawyer, or a doctor, or President. And they totally want you to have that happily ever after. My mom has already started down that mom-ly path of asking when I plan on getting married and giving her grandchildren that seems like it's a parental requirement. (I keep telling her, the boyfriend part has to come before the baby part.) And when dad asks me how my day at work was, I don't think he understands half of the things I say. It's tough, sometimes, knowing that they don't quite get it.
I want them to get it. I want them to understand how cool it is that I get to go to the Grammy Awards every year, or that I once rode in an elevator at San Diego Comic-Con with Joss Whedon (even though I didn't realize it was Joss Whedon at first, and then I swear I tried not to talk his ear off), or that I got to interview Celine Dion in Las Vegas and then see her show at Caesars Palace totally free, or that there's a concert venue out here in LA that serves margaritas in this really cute guitar-shaped cup. I have a really great job, and I wish I could share more of that awesomeness with the people I love most.
But even though they might not be in the know about The Simpsons or Justin Bieber (and actually, I'm kinda OK if they never figure out Bieber), what I love about my family is that they've always supported me no matter what. My parents took me to my first Star Trek convention in Pasadena when I was like seven. My sister dressed up in her own Starfleet uniform just so I wouldn't feel out of place. Mom records everything I'm in, and she insists on keeping it on the DVR even if it's just 30 seconds of me introducing some Linkin Park concert. Her TiVo is full of me and episodes of Bridezillas. I think she just likes watching the trainwrecks.
We might be into totally different things, but we always stick together. That's why I have the best family I could ever ask for.
Paige Maxwell - OC - 503 words
First of all, hi, I'm Paige. I'm super new here. I hope this is kinda interesting? Not really sure. I'm better when I'm not talking about me.
Okay, so, answering your question.
It's like no secret that I'm kind of the black sheep of the Maxwell family. I mean, career-wise. Not that I got arrested on Campus PD wearing a road cone on my head or anything. Just that my sister's a corporate lawyer, and my dad's a pilot, and my mom works in airport security (that's how they met - whole other story), and here I am, a TV reporter with a Mace Windu lightsaber in her cubicle. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
I know my family would've liked to see me do something different. I think some part of every parent wants their kid to be a lawyer, or a doctor, or President. And they totally want you to have that happily ever after. My mom has already started down that mom-ly path of asking when I plan on getting married and giving her grandchildren that seems like it's a parental requirement. (I keep telling her, the boyfriend part has to come before the baby part.) And when dad asks me how my day at work was, I don't think he understands half of the things I say. It's tough, sometimes, knowing that they don't quite get it.
I want them to get it. I want them to understand how cool it is that I get to go to the Grammy Awards every year, or that I once rode in an elevator at San Diego Comic-Con with Joss Whedon (even though I didn't realize it was Joss Whedon at first, and then I swear I tried not to talk his ear off), or that I got to interview Celine Dion in Las Vegas and then see her show at Caesars Palace totally free, or that there's a concert venue out here in LA that serves margaritas in this really cute guitar-shaped cup. I have a really great job, and I wish I could share more of that awesomeness with the people I love most.
But even though they might not be in the know about The Simpsons or Justin Bieber (and actually, I'm kinda OK if they never figure out Bieber), what I love about my family is that they've always supported me no matter what. My parents took me to my first Star Trek convention in Pasadena when I was like seven. My sister dressed up in her own Starfleet uniform just so I wouldn't feel out of place. Mom records everything I'm in, and she insists on keeping it on the DVR even if it's just 30 seconds of me introducing some Linkin Park concert. Her TiVo is full of me and episodes of Bridezillas. I think she just likes watching the trainwrecks.
We might be into totally different things, but we always stick together. That's why I have the best family I could ever ask for.
Paige Maxwell - OC - 503 words