one in each class
july 31, 2002
[niece update] since my brother and siln have been busy with the acquisition of their new home and the selling of their old one, we took the liberty of snatching our niece away for the day just so they will have time to concentrate on what's on hand without having to worry about her. it's been about 3 weeks since i've seen her and she seems to be ever changing. not only is it new developments in her skills, observations, quirks etc, but it's her face that really takes on the most severe metamorphosis. at 8 months now, she actually has the mature face of a 2 year old. she crawls, sits up on her own, says "da da" (to the glee of my brother of course, although i think she's secretly saying "gimme my breast milk!") and does a whole host of other things to amuse us. luckily, she feels no anxiety about leaving her parents and going with auntie aiyah and uncle k. we took her to a local park and i think she had fun, if not a lil too much sun. :x shhhhhh! her mom and dad don't know what we do with her when she's with us.
obviously, my dog wants to go home and get away from the clutches of my niece who insists on grabbing for her leash. :p i should mention that at petsmart, they have the coolest water bottle for both pets and owners! the black base (near my dog's paw) comes off the bottom of the water bottle so you can pour water in for your pet while retaining the purity of the water for you to drink as well from the sportscap. it's the best thing ever and it was only 99 cents! of course i bought this years ago though. :p
[one in each class] you know, it never ever fails that when you're in some sort of classroom environment, there is ALWAYS someone who asks the most inane questions and cannot grasp what the teacher is talking about. while AT THE SAME time feigns to be the most intellectual and most astute person there. this person will almost always, sit in the front row, their arms shooting in the air every 5 minutes to ask a question and you can literally feel everyone else's eyes just roll in unison. i seriously would like to catch her in the restroom one day and beat the fuckin daylights out of her.
ok ok, sure...some people cannot follow along as quickly as others but that's fine if they don't act like they're some smarty pants. her questions always jump way ahead to something we have yet to cover - as if she's proving herself to be above our intellect. and her other half of the questions are always of things the teacher specifically said and reiterated numerous times just about a minute before :P. and when other students in class ask a question, she will actually barge in and speak on behalf of the student saying something like "what HE is trying to ask is...." and she always gets it wrong. can someone give me a cactus to shove into her mouth?
better yet, gimme some spicy habanero peppers.
as if that's not bad enough, at our most recent session, she actually threw a mini tantrum in class and threw her pencil down while exasperated, she covered her face with her hands and practically started to weep! i kid you not. she mumbled something about the class being too noisy and disrupting her while she asks questions. and that the teacher wasn't explaining things in the way she wanted and that she couldn't grasp the concepts. i swear for a moment, in between my smirking, i thought she was going to pull out a machine gun and splatter us all.
unstable people like that requires special attention.
under lockdown. :p
and don't get me started on the fake hairpiece she had in class the other day.
i can go on and on about her.
