Saturday, October 15, 2011

Kathy

We were in a faculty meeting and Kathy Taber told us that the students in her OU class had taken a survey and decided that laminators were old-fashioned and shouldn't be used anymore. I argued with her that I used the laminator a lot and didn't think we should get rid of it. Then we started doing some stupid exercise where we had to read a passage and code it according to a chart she had posted on the wall. I didn't understand what to do and when she walked by our table and noticed I had nothing written down, she confronted me. I got very angry and walked out of the meeting. I went to the workroom and started looking through my mailbox, furious with Kathy.

Sunday Dinner



Russ and I went to his parents' house for a Sunday dinner. There were a lot of people there and I was very nervous. Russ left me alone with everyone while he went to take a shower. It was very crowded around the table and his mom kept filling my plate up with food. She had made some sort of spaghetti casserole. People were asking me questions, but I wasn't hearing them correctly and my answers were strange. We were watching people swim in a pool on TV and there was a couple having sex in the pool. Someone made a joke about them and said, "I wonder what you name a child conceived in a pool?" I suggested, "Chlorine" and everyone thought I was so funny! Russ came into the kitchen dressed only in a towel and I thought he was so sexy. When it was time to leave, Russ headed out to the car while I was gathering my things. When I got outside, I was in a parking lot with a lot of cars and I couldn't figure out which one he was in. I stood on the curb with all of my bags hoping he would see me. He pulled up in a beat-up pickup truck and we drove away.