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March 26, 2006
Space Quest
Some of you may be wondering how things are going with my in-laws living with us. Its been 5 weeks now. They are rather traditional Vietnamese people, and I was a kid who had difficulty with the boundaries and structure of a rather socially liberal white family.
At times I feel like I am in an endless real-life version of the classic (and second) Frasier episode, "Space Quest". In it, Frasier must adjust to life with his, uh, culturally different father and Daphne, the psychic Manchester-born home health care worker who cheerfully regales Frasier and his father with endless stories of her childhood in a deranged family.
I have to say, however, that in general it has gone surprisingly smoothly. They have added this different sort of energy to our house. Maybe theirs isn't the lifestyle I've chosen, but they have added something strange and likable to the rythm of our lives anyway. I think I will actually miss them when they are gone. I guess that is the same conclusion that Frasier eventually reached about his father and Daphne.
Posted by dag at March 26, 2006 12:08 PM