{"id":163,"date":"2006-02-02T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/02\/02\/a-thin-line\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T00:10:17","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T07:10:17","slug":"a-thin-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/02\/02\/a-thin-line\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thin Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Roomie’s told me on several occasions that she’s spent much of her life living with\u00a0people who were apparently just short of\u00a0mentally challenged.\u00a0 The interesting side effect of that is\u00a0that she often treats me like I’m one of those people (although maybe I am…).\u00a0 While watching Law & Order SVU several weeks ago, she commented\u00a0that the cops\u00a0can be just as bad as the criminals on this show.\u00a0 She then\u00a0went on to explain this concept:<\/p>\n

Roomie:\u00a0\u00a0See,\u00a0it’s like cops\u00a0are standing on one side and criminals on the other.\u00a0 And there’s a line separating them, but it’s\u00a0a thin line\u00a0… blah, blah, blah … [*ten minutes pass*].\u00a0 Does that make sense?<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0\u00a0 Um, Roomie, you know I’m not five, right?\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0\u00a0Plus, there’s the having majored in English literature thing.\u00a0 The thin line separating good and evil is a major literary motif.\u00a0 I’ve dedicated many a paper to it.\u00a0 I get it.<\/p>\n

Roomie:\u00a0 Oh, right, sorry.\u00a0 I was just trying to explaing how Detective Stabler can be just as much a thug as the criminal he purports to hate.\u00a0 It’s like he can see himself in them….blah, blah, blah…thin line…blah, blah, blah…<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Did you seriously just explain that concept again?\u00a0 Seriously?<\/p>\n

Roomie:\u00a0 You know I lived with people who couldn’t feed themselves!\u00a0 I’m USED to explaining everything.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 You realize that in all likelihood, they could probably do so before they lived with you, right?\u00a0 I myself am losing some critical life skills.\u00a0\u00a0Do you remember that one time I tried to clean the kitchen counter, but you said you liked cleaning and\u00a0had a\u00a0Three Step Process, which I found too complicated so I gave up?\u00a0\u00a0Noticed how\u00a0I haven’t attempted to\u00a0clean the\u00a0counter since?\u00a0 I don’t think I remember how to any more.\u00a0 [*pause*]\u00a0 It’s okay.\u00a0 You can’t help it.\u00a0 You’re a giver.\u00a0 That must be hard.\u00a0 I wouldn’t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roomie:\u00a0 Yes, I’ve noticed. *<\/p>\n

* Roomie asked me to note for the record\u00a0that she didn’t actually make this last statement at all.\u00a0 This is more likely something I would say.\u00a0 She, being much nicer,\u00a0actually said something reassuring and sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Roomie’s told me on several occasions that she’s spent much of her life living with\u00a0people who were apparently just short of\u00a0mentally challenged.\u00a0 The interesting side effect of that is\u00a0that she often treats me like I’m one of those people (although maybe I am…).\u00a0 While watching Law & Order SVU several weeks ago, she commented\u00a0that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family-and-everyone-in-between"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}