Organized Daughter suggested to mom that she get a Whiteboard. organization of ANYTHING makes maddy feel less anxious. it's not about content--just the act of Organizing calms her and contains her hostility and junior year resentment for maybe an hour or two before she starts blaming younger brother and mom for NOT being as organized as she is. or dad is. on top of everything else, she's pissed that nancy and jonah are having just a little too much fun. all the time. nancy whollups this remark with the most psychologically incorrect thing she could come up with: she points out to Organized Anxious Blaming Daughter that she gets these negative genes from....dad. nancy feels only a little bit guilty saying this because (truth be told, and nancy says this too) someone should've knocked this negative shit out of dad when he was HER age and maybe nancy and ex would still be married. (a two-fer of Psychological Incorrectness)
these wolf's comments in sheeps clothes indeed work to squelch and beat down what nancy considers a trait she'd like to see become extinct in this next generation. in this way, nancy feels she's actually doing something really Good even though it comes off really Bad.
and nancy's learning too. being organizationally challenged, nancy appreciates the suggestion of getting a whiteboard. in fact, maddy and nancy joyfully go to Office Max and pick one out together. they miraculously leave Office Max having spent 27.50, the smallest amount they've ever spent there! they attribute this to not bringing Jonah along, who would've wrangled into the deal a few thousand more magic markers, some game boy attachments and binders He'll Never Use.
for the first few days Nancy LOVES the whiteboard. uses it. thrives with it.
problem is, school's still on and Maddy's not here during the day to make sure nancy looks at it. maybe nancy will be better with the whiteboard when maddy's on vacation.
today nancy is wearing bell bottomed pale green Abercrombie cords (leslie has assured nancy that she will let her know when she's not allowed to wear Abercrombie anymore) with a smooth cotton Velvet tee in a complimentary muted shade of eggplant. she accessorizes the 70s look with some hippie earrings of moonstone and tooled silver that she bought unceremoniously just two days ago before her first-ever Internet Date (she was Bachelorette #2 for her date who had slightly more experience doing this than she). nancy wears a brand new Black Muji watch in an effort to bring back the green one that Otto ate. it only sort of works, the green one was better. she wears black flip flops under the big wide bells because she might go get a pedicure later -- but only if she remembers to look at her Whiteboard today and get her work done.
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