If I had a MySpace page my current mood would be set to “the blur”. Granted this isn’t an actual MySpace mood but it should be. I’m working an insane amount of jobs just to get by while trying to get a lot of my own article writing off the ground. Sure I stole Lorelai’s superhero name but “the blur” just fits me.

You know when we were in English class as kids we’d always have to write our own obituaries or what would be on our gravestones or some such other extremely morbid theme that still seemed boring? Well I have mine; the best way to describe me in any way is something Lorelei says to Paris during season six “You can be anything you want except a diplomat.” So true. If you had to define yourself with one Gilmore Girls quote what would it be?

We’ve all had a good laugh about how Jackson doesn’t want to know the gender of his child. This conversation takes place:

JACKSON: Hey, in the old days, the guys would pace back and forth in the waiting room until a pretty nurse in a nice white outfit would come out and say, “Congratulations - it’s a ‘insert your chosen sex here’.” Ricky Ricardo didn’t know, Dick van Dyke didn’t know, and by gum, if it was good enough for Rick and Dick, it’s good enough for me.

LORELAI: Well, I wanna know.

JACKSON: Rory, what do you say? Be on my side.

SOOKIE: Jackson, there are no sides.

JACKSON: We can be in that waiting room together, pacing, waiting; we’ll get you a nice suit. What do you say?

RORY: Okay, sure. I’m on Jackson’s side.

JACKSON: Great. Welcome to 1954.

It really didn’t dawn on me just how different childbirth was back then until a recent episode of Mad Men when Betty was giving birth. I just wanted to yell “stop it” It showed the mom all scared and alone while the dads were literally out in the waiting room smoking cigars and drinking. When/if my time ever comes it will not be 1954.

This was one of the Gilmore movie references that I watched and felt very clever for discovering. Then I watched an episode of Gilmore Girls and basically realized that I had probably chosen the old black and white film from a subliminal Gilmore Girl suggestion.

LORELAI: So typical. Kid grows up, goes to a fancy school, becomes a snob and is suddenly ashamed of her mother. You totally Mildred Pierce-d me.

RORY: I did not Mildred Pierce you.

Mildred Pierce is both a movie and a novel. I’ve only seen the movie starring Joan Crawford. It’s about a mother daughter relationship enshrouded in a murder mystery. It’s definitely worth watching. Watch it so you can use Mildred Pierce as a verb.