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07:57 AM
Yesterday's post in normal English:
Golly. I don't know what people will say about my split with my daughter. The truth is that Frances is not going to be as rich next year as people think she will be. She and I both got the same share of my husband's estate - which breaks down as 37 percent of the gross profits of the In Utero album. The $15 million in profits from the use of my ex husband's name and image all go to the record company - because they are so greedy they would take cash out of the hands of a fatherless child. I've always thought this was wrong but so much time has passed now that I don't care.
What I do care about is the attitude my teenage daughter is giving me at the moment. Sheesh! Kids these days! I love her but am going to have to give her some distance. What's sad is the people she thinks are her friends in New York really just like her because she's rich and her dad is famous. I'm so annoyed at her right now that I'm considering applying for a professorship at the college she wants to go to! That would teach her a lesson!
What really annoys me is that she's not living up to her potential. She tells herself she's doing stuff to build a life for herself but, really, she wastes all her time on Facebook.
I'm also annoyed because she's gotten into that teenage phase where she sometimes lies to me - her own mother. Also, my in-laws are a nightmare. Golly gee whillakers - why did I ever let her visit them so much! The son they raised turned out to be a suicidal junkie! I'm really worried they'll try to trick her into buying them a house and signing a lot of her money over to them. The good news is that well before this incident happened the lawyers locked up all the money in a trust so they can't steal from her. Thank god for that!
Please don't take all this the wrong way. I love my daughter and think she's a great kid. I'm just worried she's surrounded by people around her who are a bad influence. My late husband's sister has alcohol abuse issues - that are so bad that even Kelly Osbourne was worried about her.
Ok. Time for me to take a deep breath, step away from this situation and visit some friends for girl talk. It worries me that my daughter is going to be all over the tabloids over this and I hope she's strong enough to handle it. I just wish my daughter had considered her options. She could have enrolled at Simon's Rock of Bard College. She could have asked for legal emancipation. Heck, she is only a couple months away from legal adulthood and I trust her so I would not have fought that. It just tears me up inside to see her going to people I think are going to take advantage of her. She is going to be hanging out with the type of celebrity family blood suckers that led to all the problems with Britney Spears last year. And, doesn't she realize that these are the same people who raised her father in such a self destructive atmosphere that he had severe mental health issues that led to his addictions and eventual suicide? What is she thinking?
Drat! I have to deal with the real estate agent today. Frances Bean, you are my daughter and I hope you know I love you unconditionally - I'm just very, very worried about you and the choices you are making.
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Today's Facebook posts translated from Drunk To English:
Jeepers! I didn't mean to make that post public. I don't understand the new Facebook privacy settings. Well, no use crying over spilt milk. I wish people understood that I'm not angry at my daughter. I'm angry at the people who are manipulating her. I don't want her to end up like Jamiie Lynn Spears. She has so much potential. She could be a writer or artist or anything. I will always support her hopes and dreams 100 percent. What pains me is that the media will turn this into a circus and I believe that people - teenagers especially - value and deserve their privacy.
I really miss hanging out with my daughter and the way our relationship used to be when she was younger. I hope she isn't worrying about me. She has to live her own life and growing apart from your parents is a normal part of growing up. I really just want her to be happy, find a nice place to live and go to the university of her choice. That's all I've ever wanted for her.
Now, Mr. Hilton. I think you've made an error and should re-evaluate your position. Your own lawyer made a comment that I could just sell out for $15 million and all my problems would go away. But, life is never that simple. Right now, I'm in a little bit of a tizzy about the way you have been talking about me. That message was supposed to be part of a private conversation and was only accidentally posted in a public forum. In addition, and I'm sure this is a mistake on your part, you seem to have incorrectly transposed some of my prose. I hope you can correct your error in a timely manner and in the future respect my privacy because it is so gauche when lawyers have to get involved in situations like this. I'm sure this is a misunderstanding and I hope you have a super day.
07:32 AM
07:15 AM
12/16/09
I think she should be thrilled at the attention!
12/16/09
Golly. I don't know what people will say about my split with my daughter. The truth is that Frances is not going to be as rich as next year as people think she will be. She and I both got the same share of my husband's estate - which breaks down as 37 percent of the gross profits of the In Utero album. The $15 million in profits from the use of my ex husband's name and image all go to the record company - because they are so greedy they would take cash out of the hands of a fatherless child. I've always thought this was wrong but so much time has passed now that I don't care.
What I do care about is the attitude my teenage daughter is giving me at the moment. Sheesh! Kids these days! I love her but am going to have to give her some distance. What's sad is the people she thinks are her friends in New York really just like her because she's rich and her dad is famous. I'm so annoyed at her right now that I'm considering applying for a professorship at the college she wants to go to! That would teach her a lesson!
What really annoys me is that she's not living up to her potential. She tells herself she's doing stuff to build a life for herself but, really, she wastes all her time on Facebook.
I'm also annoyed because she's gotten into that teenage phase where she sometimes lies to me - her own mother. Also, my in-laws are a nightmare. Golly gee whillakers - why did I ever let her visit them so much! The son they raised turned out to be a suicidal junkie! I'm really worried they'll try to trick her into buying them a house and signing a lot of her money over to them. The good news is that well before this incident happened the lawyers locked up all the money in a trust so they can't steal from her. Thank god for that!
Please don't take all this the wrong way. I love my daughter and think she's a great kid. I'm just worried she's surrounded by people around her who are a bad influence. My late husband's sister has alcohol abuse issues - that are so bad that even Kelly Osbourne was worried about her.
Ok. Time for me to take a deep breath, step away from this situation and visit some friends for girl talk. It worries me that my daughter is going to be all over the tabloids over this and I hope she's strong enough to handle it. I just wish my daughter had considered her options. She could have enrolled at Simon's Rock of Bard College. She could have asked for legal emancipation. Heck, she is only a couple months away from legal adulthood and I trust her so I would not have fought that. It just tears me up inside to see her going to people I think are going to take advantage of her. She is going to be hanging out with the type of celebrity family blood suckers that led to all the problems with Britney Spears last year. And, doesn't she realize that these are the same people who raised her father in such a self destructive atmosphere that he had severe mental health issues that led to his addictions and eventual suicide? What is she thinking?
Drat! I have to deal with the real estate agent today. Frances Bean, you are my daughter and I hope you know I love you unconditionally - I'm just very, very worried about you and the choices you are making.
Love,
Mom.
12/16/09
12/16/09
So, I made $200 for sitting around and figured I might as well do something with my brain while doing so.
12/16/09
05:12 AM
Maybe she'll do another post and I can have fun with that.
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That's what we're talking about right?
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That my friend is the question of the decade
12/16/09
(very lucky press pass)
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-Zack from Houston
12/16/09
Sometimes it is hard to tell when reading Gawker if what you see is a simple mistake or some sort of reverse-meta-self-snark.
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And, I'm not sure. Leon might go for the idea of a celebrity teacher.
We certainly had some oddball professors there when I was a student.
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And they never got a zit before the big cotillion.
12/16/09
12/15/09
Moreover, light can behave like both a particle and a wave, but you can only measure one of those things at a time. So, if you've bounced some light off of a particle in order to measure it, and you want to get the information back from that particle, you measure the photon--but if you measure the photon like a particle, you lose all the information you'd get if you measured it like a wave, and vice-versa.
Basically, what it means is that there's no way to get complete data on anything that you observe, because the second you observe it, you change all the conditions you were trying to measure.
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I think that unemployment leads to inflation due to supply-and-demand pricing. When everyone is making money, you can charge slightly more for your product, and consequently pay people more money. When lots of people are unemployed, you have to charge less for your product in order to sell anything, and you don't make that up in volume sales--so, the value of your product goes down, AND you make less money selling it. This means you have to fire the people that work for you because you can't pay them, so they have less money to buy things, which drives the value of everything down.
12/15/09
The Uncertainty Principle states that you can observe either that he's doing it with guys, or you can observe which guys, but you can't observe both at once.
12/15/09
Observe, fail.
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