The same lesson
Besides all the other odd, odd issues my cat and I have in common, we both recently learned the same life lesson.
Jonas just had a dental cleaning and had to undergo general anesthesia. They shaved fur from his right arm, I mean, leg, and put this bandage on him with lots of smiley faces. He then had a tooth pulled. If the smiles were meant to distract and/or confuse him from the sheer pain, I'm pretty sure it didn't work. He's running around right now waving his fur-less leg in the air and simultaneously trying to dodge Zekey. It'd be funny if he wasn't my cat.
I'm kidding. It's hilarious.
My own lesson came courtesy of my French teacher who had enough of my smiling after every response I gave her and ran away to France for two months. She actually said to me: Just because you smile doesn't make it right. I've been getting by in this damn language on exactly just that and now what do I have left? My surliness?
Actually, I just received affirmation that I'm getting somewhere with all of this. The teacher of the summer class I'm taking to pass the time until my regular teacher returns to my surly ways suggested to the education director that I should be moved to the advanced class. Advanced! I've never been advanced in anything in my life. Slow? Yes. Confused? Ummm.... Incorrigible? Absolutely. But never advanced.
Crap. Now there'll be expectations for me to actually speak the language. Maybe I'd better off finding a "smiling" language. It's how my mom and Cylinda talk to each other.
Mom: Salinnnna! :-)
Cylinda: Si! Yes! :-) :-)
Mom: Salinnnna! Eat fruit! :-)
Cylinda: Si! Si! :-) :-) :-)
And for them, that's an in-depth conversation.
« June 07, 2007 5:22 PM | Post a Comment »
2 comment(s):
said:
Si, Yes, that's how Mom and Cylinda talk over the phone.
Also, please post some pictures of Jonas!
yen said:
That there is proof I don't lie all the time. Thank you! For that, you get many, many pictures of Jonas' fur-less leg.
