I Can Taste It
I have to do one more read on my final paper and that will be it. I will be free for the summer to relish in my broke despondency. I could get a job, maybe, but New York sucks for that kind of thing and I only intend on working for a month and a half. So we'll see what happens.
I know I was supposed to talk about babies the other day. I'm not in the mood anymore but I will say that Jason (the owner) had to fix my window and since they fired their nanny, he needed me to keep an ear out for the kid.
First of all, my heart really bleeds for them without a nanny. His exacerbation over that matter was just heart-breaking. So the kid started fussing; to appease him, Jason puts him outside. Now, I actually have to watch him. So I'm standing out in front with this five-month old kid in a stroller. He seems perfectly happy listening to the construction and watching strangers buzz by. I just stare at him. Actually, I stared at the tuft of hair on the top of his head. It's quite a strange configuration. Anyway, then he starts crying. Well, I just didn't understand. So I tried to reason with him: "Why are you starting to cry?" I asked. "You were perfectly fine up to this point and I honestly don't see any reason why you should be unhappy all of a sudden." He kept crying.
There really was no reason for him to be crying, but Jason was done shortly thereafter and I was relieved of my duty. All in all, it was a good experience. And it just reminded me of one of many reasons why not to have one of my own. So I needed that. I'm sorry to see that the Kings were unable to stop the bad-hair Mavericks tonight. I only hope the Spurs stop their little run.
However, I'm not sorry that the Lakers were run off their home court (sorry, mom). And Kobe and Derek Fisher crying? Give me a break. I'm sure they weren't crying when they went home to their multi-million dollar homes. And all I could think of was Tom Hanks from "A League of Their Own": Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball (except I took it upon myself to insert the word "basketball" in the appropriate place).
