I’m watching Attack on Titan and my stepdad is home for lunch.
Stepdad: Are you learning Chinese?
Me: It’s in Japanese.
Stepdad: So are you learning Japanese?
Me: It has English subtitles.
Stepdad: What are those things?
Me: Those are the Titans. Basically they’re human-eating giants.
Stepdad: Oh, like a fairytale?
I’m the idiot in this story. It’s Thursday. I’m watching the news with my parents and they’re talking about building a field hospital in Mulhouse to accommodate more coronavirus patients.
The guy we interviewed: We’ll be able to take in patients by the end of next week/early next week.
Me: He could say Friday instead of weekend. It’s already Thursday.
My mother: Weekends count as weekends too!
Me: but everything is closed on weekends.
Mother: Not the hospitals
We are watching Little Fires Everywhere, a mini-series on Hulu. My stepbrother has just come in from mowing.
Stepbrother: What are they talking about here?
Mom: Well, they just got done talking about vaginas, and now they’re talking about motherhood.
Me: Twll him the book they were reading!
Stepbrother: No thank you!
Its the corona virus times and my family is voluntarily isolating. A few days before we started isolating I got a new laptop and I love that its all white. I use it for an online course and after the lesson, I exit the bedroom all happy and tell my husband: ‘When all of this is over, I want to get a white mouse!’ …
He looks at me and after a split second says ‘Ok.’
I realize he has no idea what I’m talking about it and just okayed me getting not only a pet mouse, but a white one specifically, literally no questions asked. I explained and was laughing all day long whenever I remembered it. He said he just figured it would either be a really strong desire to have a white mouse, if it lasted all the isolation period, in which case I should get the mouse, or I would forget all about it anyway :-).
When I was in ninth grade, the final year of Junior high in my district at the time, I was in an AP history and AP language arts class taught by the same teacher. These classes were back to back and had all the same students, which meant we got to know each other pretty well.
Toward the end of the year, a few of my classmates decided to pull a prank while our teacher was out sick. These students took several stacks of post it notes and covered every surface with the post it notes.
The teacher took it in stride, and we thought that would be the end of it.
Three years later, when I was in a college course as a high schooler, I came back to this classroom, where this teacher was still working, to take part in a practicum in his classroom. The teacher had to use one of the draw down maps while I was there, and what did we find but ~30 post it notes on the map.
The teacher and I just stared at each other for a minute before laughing and explaining to the class what had happened.
