Conversations while babysitting.

G: Cheese!
Me: No, no more cheese. You’ve had enough cheese.
G: Cheese? Cheese. Cheese. Cheese. Cheese! (while signing “more”)
Me: No more cheese!
G: CHEESE.
Me: Your mom can have more cheese.
G: Mama cheese?

Yesterday was 0% fun.

So sick that when my stomach had nothing left to offer, it gave the contents of my gallbladder. 

#TMI

Conversations with preschoolers.

B: Why do you got necklaces* on your teeth?

Me: They’re called braces, remember?

B: Oh yeah…why do you have them?

Me: My doctor gave them to me to fix my teeth. 

B: I want to get them on my teeth.

Me: They really are not very fun…ever.

B: But I want to get them.

Me: You may one day live to regret that statement, but maybe one day when you’re bigger your doctor will tell you that you need them and then you can get them. 

[He seemed pleased with this answer, so he moved on to the next topic.]

B: Who put on your watch for you?

Me: I did it.

B: Who put on your shoes?

Me: I did.

B: Who put on your shirt?

Me: …Do you know that I dress myself?

*They usually call them “bracelets”. 

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In my three years at UA I have encountered three people (out of 26,000+) who walk around campus playing music out of portable mp3 speakers. I guess this is the modern-day equivalent of strutting around with a boombox. Whatever the case, it irritates me to no end.

This semester I have a class with one of these people. When we get out of class, everyone walks out of the building and either pulls out their phone to return calls and texts, or they turn on their music and put their headphones on.

Except this guy…this guy turns his music on and plugs it into speakers in his backpack pocket.

From icebreaker activities at the beginning of the course, I know that this guy is into creating electronic music, and I have a suspicion that the music coming from his backpack may be something of his own invention.

So, cool, you’re proud of what you’ve made, you want to get it out there for people to hear, but as far as I’m concerned, what you’re doing here is noise pollution.

If you want people to hear your music, put it on your myspace (ha) or pimp it out to your Facebook friends like every other budding musician these days. If you want to just listen to music, I have some earbuds you can have, or go get some Monster Beats or Skullcandy or whatever it is everyone is wearing.

On the other hand, I’m totally down with Saxophone Girl.