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[sal_amanda]

my family room is now pretty much the same color as my livejournal background. we're so on an orange kick lately.

still haven't finished my reading on personality disorders. the thing with this psychopathology class is that i keep thinking of people that i've known in life that fit these disorders. i seem to have weeded a lot of them out over the years (you wouldn't believe how many came from Gastown) and the rest are generally relatives or in-laws. i'm pleased to say that most people i voluntarily interact with now are surprisingly normal. i suppose i should be concerned about the family streaks, but then again, i've always known the name Insana was in our history for a reason...

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[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

Be careful with all that information on disorders and such. It's a common mishap for psychology students to all of a sudden believe they have these problems they are reading about. Although, it sounds like in your case you are giving the disorders to everyone else instead. Not that we aren't dysfunctional or anything...

[sal_amanda]

when we met with the priest at the church to set up the wedding and he heard Insana (and this guy is really Italian), he just paused, looked at me, and cautiously asked me if i knew what it meant.

ironically, i was told by a professor i had in vermont who also knew a lot about linguistics and shit like that that Pielecha is probably more Russian than Polish and that i don't want to know what it means. which of course made me really want to know what it means, but he never would tell me.

as for my own insanities, if anything, i'm a little OCD, but then the textbook also says it shares features with "Type A" personalities so it's easy to think that.

[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I want to know!!!! Do you think it's possible that Pielecha means "pirate"?

[sal_amanda]

do they have pirates in poland?

[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

Well, I had been going with the theory of us really being Russian, but why the hell can't there be Polish pirates? Maybe they don't have ships sailing from there or anything but still. Black Beardski?

[sal_amanda]

well, Russian pirates do seem to make more sense in the grand scheme of things, for some reason. i don't actually know why. it just sounds good.

in any case, i always had thought that our name didn't fit the usual mold of Polish names, and being Russian avoids a lot of stupid jokes.

[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

People always told me they thought Pielecha was Italian. It certainly doesn't sound Polish. Okay, that's settled, we're Russian. Do you want to tell Grandpa or should I?

[sal_amanda]

well, the Americanized pronunciation of it does sound Italian. i've heard that, too. until you see it spelled. Italian is much more phonetic.

the Polish pronunciation, heard at various family funerals and from my new neighbors from Poland, definitely doesn't sound Italian.

i think i told dad it was Russian once and he didn't seem overly concerned.