YOU NEED TO SHAVE

So I returned to Ann Arbor this weekend. It was a lovely trip and I hope to return to the area again soon...how does Thanksgiving sound? Lovely...I'll see some of you then.

So Friday night, after a lovely family dinner, I went to see You Can't Take It with You at the same time as Dani, Maryn, Framy, and Schmidt-face; I suppose you could say we watched it together. The play was great and it was good to see all the folks. And of course, Brad and I were able to renew our memberships in Mean People Anonymous. We are also considering allowing Dan to join us; he seems to be progressing well. And Maryn also seems to have a future in being mean to people. We'll really have to see how that one goes.
Saturday, I had a great day. In the morning I interviewed the famous Barb Panning about what life is like when you are a teacher. It was very informational and useful. Later in the day, my family had a large number of guests for dinner. There were my guests: Jenny and Alex; they were well-behaved and are invited to come again. Then there were Gregoire's guests; they were loud and argumentative. They sat around and discussed the Tridentine Mass vs. Novus Ordo; they really seem to prefer the Latin Mass to speaking English. Yeah...they were interesting. I think they might have scared Alex but he's a big boy...I think he lived.
After that, we all headed over to the Nitkiewiczes for Mary's party...and talked about weddings and really expensive engagement rings ($20,000 for example) despite the fact that I did promise Alex that we wouldn't discuss weddings at all. Poor kid...he really does get abused. But he was a good sport and maybe some day he'll have to go engagement ring shopping. If he does that, he'd better spend a lot less than $20,000.
So after we left that house, Jenny, Alex, and I went to Starbucks...where Alex's twin, Kyle, called. (Alex goes to UofM; Kyle goes to GVSU and is a friend of mine. Alex and I are also friends but he doesn't attend GVSU so I don't see him as much as I see his brother.) So Kyle calls and Alex gives me the phone without telling Kyle who he's at the pick-pockets with. All he says is that he's there with a "crazy mysterious woman." So I tell Kyle that I'm the crazy mysterious woman and he replies, "What the heck are you doing in Ann Arbor?"
After a brief refresher that my parents live in A2 we had a nice chat until his brother decided he needed the phone back. Shortly after this, Ben, a friend of mine from high school and a friend of Alex's from UCO, calls Alex and basically invites Alex, Jenny, and me to come over to his dorm and hang out for a while. So now we head over to UofM's campus and hang out with Ben and his roommate, David, and this other guy, Josh, for a couple hours. We watched Sports Center and were able to view the awesomeness that is the University of Michigan's football team. It was pretty great.
But this was also where things got awkward. Somehow we got unto the topic of girls and leg-shaving. Over the summer, Alex and I were at someone's house when that person's little brother pulled my pants leg up to my knee and yelled "YOU NEED TO SHAVE."
David informed us of a few interesting points such as the fact that he didn't know that girls shave their legs until he was in high school and even now he can't tell whether or not girls have shaved their legs. (Hairy legs are after all our only link to reality.)
A bit later we were discussing the serious lack of males at GVSU (this institution is 73% female) and there are very few single men. Now this is not to say that I want a boyfriend; I'm merely stating that sometimes it's really nice to hang out with a guy who won't run off to canoodle someplace the minute his girlfriend gets back. It's also incredibly awkward to sit around with like six or seven girls and one guy. Now most of these guys (Greg and Kyle) are good sports about this but it has to be rough on them. But anyway...I remarked about how there are almost no single guys around and David looks at me and says "Oh, I bet I know what you want." Yep, Dave, that's right; I'm just another single girl out to get a boyfriend...or not! I'm more interested in finding someone you can talk to without having to also talk to his girlfriend/fiancee/wife.
But yeah...I like people; they're awesome.
And for the record...I'm still single and I shaved my legs this morning. Return to Me lied to me.