in some countries, they consider that a talent.

after i got done talking to jen tonight, i realized that the thumping inside my ear had returned. now i realize that it's not normal for one's inner ear to thump wildly at random intervals, and once it started happening a number of times in one day, it lead me to this conclusion:

i have ruptured my own eardrum.




yup. that's my ear.

in other news, i thought i'd bring everyone up to brief speed of the life of the pio.
- i no longer work at el clubo. due largely in part to two points down, but point being...no more.

- one could call me a "pseudo-nanny". yup, i watch one family of kiddles two nights a week. they're 5 and 3. they eat chicken nuggets and toast like it's fine cuisine and can be easily bribed with kit kats. in turn, i make lincoln log towers and they're in awe.

- this week i'm not just "pseudo-nanny", i'm THE nanny. i'm hanging out with a four year old as an emergency au pair replacement. it basically means i correct people when they ask if i'm the new nanny, avoid questions about the whereabouts of the old one and spend more time that deemed necessary outside. is was this job that made my time at the club kaput. not only my choice, but my boss was none too pleased, so i think i'm done.

- i'm only the emergency nanny for a week because...the mothership called me home and gave me a job. if you know me, you know where that is. i start my paperwork today. training on tuesday. some view a job working at jcrew fulltime slightly less than awesome (some even may call it the evil empire...), however, i call it heaven with a discount. ahh.

- on a bummer note, bob is no longer in the building. he just got too old. he had to go to the cow-print bed in the sky. it's sad, but it was "time", as those folks say.

enough of that. yeah, that pretty much covers it. other than that, i'm studying for the GRE. trying to motivate myself to sign up for it. somehow i think that by delaying signing up, i can delay taking it, thus delaying taking it the inevitable second time. i think it's stellar. however, i know a handful of folks who don't necessarily agree, so that's why you see me studying at bread and chocolate every saturday. hence last week's croissant story. yup, it's all a circle.

on that note, i'm out. i typed too late. now i can't take my tub and read before i go to bed because i have to get up early to answer more four year old questions about why the back of my car has no paint on it. (when i told him that it was because it got "scratched"...his response: "bummer.")

see what i do for you people? i sacrifice my tub time. and we all know how much i love my tub time. sheesh.