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A few things about my home/hometown that may differ from yours:

• You can go to the coffee shop and have a conversation with 70% of the people who come in (case and point, I'm at the BRCC now and have seen 12 people I know so far... and only about 8 have come in that I've never seen before)
• The cashier at the coffee shop knows my name and the fact that I go to ECU... and she graduated 3 years before me
• I live in "Uptown Shelby" yet have land that takes up an entire block.
• My dad can tell me to get a basket from the barn and I have to ask which barn...and again, I live in uptown
• We have 0 Starbucks (sorry Urkos)
• I still know the majority of the seniors at Shelby High School
• And quite a good number of the underclassmen
• You know exactly where someone lives when they tell you they moved into the _____'s old house
• Some of the biggest news in town recently has been whether or not to allow alcholic beverages be served to people seated outside at uptown restaurants
• If you try to go to the grocery store and not see anyone you know, you fail
• Every elderly person I meet asks me if I am Shem and Martha Blackley's granddaugther. I am in fact....
• When giving directions it is rare to go without saying pass by so and so's house, then turn on to the road that so and so lives on.

Oh Shelby. How you make me laugh.

I love it.

Out of the mouths of babes Part 2

Last week when I was driving Mac home from school, we had some really fun interactions. He's normally very calm and not very talkative in the afternoons, but this day he was something else!
I was taking him to Toys R Us to spend some of his birthday money.. as we pulled into the parking lot, I made a smart comment about him buying something from Babys R Us instead.
He responded: I could get something from there for my girlfriend...she's a baby.
me: Mac, that's not a nice thing to say about your girlfriend!
Mac: Well she acts like one.
Me: How so
Mac: She just does. But everyone in our class says we're going to get married and have a baby. When we say we aren't and argue back, they say, 'that's right, you're going to adopt'
Me: Whooooa you don't need to think about getting married yet, you're only in 4th grade, I'M not even thinking about that and I'm in college!
Mac: I know. But if we were go get married, it would work because we're both on the same timeline
Me: What do you mean?
Mac: We're both ten.

Not sure what that last bit means.. but okay!
The following day he gets in the car and after a few minutes I ask:
Did you talk to your girlfriend today?
Mac: Yeah, I'm thinking about breaking up with her
Me: What? Why?
Mac: I don't know
Me: You don't?
Mac: Well, she is attracted to my other friend and he makes her laugh more, so I think she likes him now.

Oh 4th grade love.

Absent

This is an apology...for the past and future for my absense on blogging. Not that many of you care or rely on my posting often.. but I'll flatter myself a little and pretend like it may make a difference to half of a cell in your body.
I'll leave it simply-8 projects due by the end of the month take a toll on you. Add in weekly assignments in classes, little diddys for fun that teachers throw in, and the normal reading and studying and you have one stressed college junior.
Comprende? Neat.
Ciao