Isn't there? :) I am utterly charmed by being able to tell people that my mother is a leading nanotechnology researcher.
It's also a big improvement over the blank looks I tend to get when I say merely that "my mother is a professor of packaging at Michigan State University." (Even "her specialty is plastics recycling" tends only to get a polite nod.)
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Date: 2007-02-15 08:42 pm (UTC)Isn't there? :) I am utterly charmed by being able to tell people that my mother is a leading nanotechnology researcher.
It's also a big improvement over the blank looks I tend to get when I say merely that "my mother is a professor of packaging at Michigan State University." (Even "her specialty is plastics recycling" tends only to get a polite nod.)