this just in!

one of the teachers here just gestured wildly and hit herself in the face.

i love life!

the other one that's crazy just walked past me and said one word: "headache" and rolled her eyes.

kidspeak...vol. 2

three boys playing in a playground sandbox. 6 years old, 3 years old, 3 years old. two out of the three are playing a game of tag called "zing!" one plays in the sand.

3 yr. old: i'm getting tired of playing this.

6 yr. old: then i'll play with my little brother.

3 yr. old: where is he?

6 yr. old: (points to the other 3 yr. old playing)
he's that kid.

to the woman that just spoke to me,

this was an interesting interaction we had. i knew if i looked up from my computer screen, something great would happen and it did. you totally fulfilled my expectations. i don't know if the randomness of it all can be captured, but i will share it with the world. here is the transcript.

lady: never have three jobs.

me: no, that's too many...

lady: well, i actually have four jobs. i have three jobs and my own projects. i do my own project.

me: oh yeah.

lady: yeah, i run a website, a news-...um, a news-...it's like cnn. so there's that and my other boss has a brain tumor, so...

me: ...so there's a lot going on.

lady: yeah.

back from the dead.

i am not dead, y'all. i just had a wicked case of food poisoning!!! man alive was that a rough four days. there were times when i thought i was seeing the light! let me just tell you, i absolutely hate being sick. ok, ok...i mean everyone hates being sick, but i reeeaally hate it. i get angry, sad, the whole deal. i hate it. therefore, i cannot imagine being truly sick. i should try to make sure that never happens. i'll work on it.

in the midst of all the terrible stomach pain i was enduring, i did get a chance to watch an exorbitant amount of "sex in the city," which i'd never seen before. and now i've watched up to season 3! man, i got some good work done there! alas, i am addicted. but i know that i need a break, so i'll try to pace myself.

so, back to work this monday morning. ready for the week to start. a new week; no sickness, no pain and no salmon with creme fraiche from julius meinl.

what to say?

man, oh man...babies are real cute when they are sleeping. and even cuter when they just woke up. GOD! i wish you could see!

in fact, the book i'm reading deals something with the cuteness of babies. it actually includes the chapter: "why be adorable?" (in terms of reproductive fitness, i think). that's chapter 19 though, and i'm only on chapter 3. the book itself is called "mother nature; a history of mothers, infants, and natural selection" and it's written by sarah blaffer hrdy. i've been meaning to read one of her books for a while. it's pretty interesting. a lot of biological anthropology...right now i'm learning about the reproductive behavior of parasitic jewel wasps. the females can control the sex of their offspring. pret-ty cool stuff, people!

also, i just became so very hungry. i'm going to have to steal food from some kids.

maybe.

the babes.

i babysit. pretty often. and i really wish that i had started doing this earlier, but i'd like to record some of the dialogue between my smaller friends and i. now, it's impossible for me to get every word down verbatim, nor is it likely that i'll capture the spirit of these guys, but i will try anyway...these snippets are from a five-year-old friend of mine.

l- (while playing with some blocks) MAYONNAISE!!!

me- mayonnaise?! where?!?

l- (throwing blocks straight up) in the SKY! MAYONNAISE SKY!

me- i love mayonnaise.

l- me too. i love mayonnaise too.

and...

l- (quietly playing with a train set) it's nice to meet you again.

me- it's nice to see you again too...

l- i hope you come back.

to the woman that's talking to me right now,

don't pull me onto your crazy train.

is the barometric pressure down today?

someone once told me that the barometric pressure can control your mood. she said that if the pressure was low, then your mood tended to be better...so today's must be low because i feel good. it may also be because i am no longer in the clutches of pms. or maybe it's because i get to go get my hair cut today. maybe i got a good amount of sleep last night or i'm excited about a somewhat easy day. in any case, today is good. i want to make today good.

can you help?

leave me a message if you can.

lakeside fun and more!

lovely time this weekend at lake marie. wish i was technologically advanced so that i could show you some digi-pix. i thinks that's what those are called. digi-pix. if they're not called digi-pix now, they really should be. start it up, folks. spread the word. we all have the power to change our own language.

at the lake, we did many things:

swimming (pool)

floating

sunning

boating (pontoon) (lakeside digi-pic here)

eating

drinking

swimming (lake)

it was all very relaxing. i wish all of you could've been there.


also,

last night, while writing w/ my sketch group, we all laughed really hard. so hard that i really almost peed in my pants. it was an inspiration.

too much water.

i am at work and i am eating leftover pizza today.

it's been a long time since i've written and for that i am truly sorry. i know i have at least one loyal reader (i think) and i must be disappointing him.

i've been really busy with emotionally meaningless work and day business for the past couple of weeks and then i just felt like there was nothing to write that hasn't already been said or written about the past week's events. so terrible, tragic. too much water. there's been every link in the world posted regarding to whom to give and how to help and i thought for a minute i'd adopt an evacuee child, but then i realized that i continuously act like one. so i gave a bit to an organization which gives like, 97% of their donations straight to the task at hand. it's called direct relief international and updates the site almost daily with what they are doing in the effort to help down south. so there's that. also, visit cd baby. if you feel like buying a cd, lots of artists are donating all the profits from their cds to relief.

today i'm going to try to not let pms rule over me. let's take it one moment at a time.