Elizabeth Bishop and Coulmbians who speak Spanish
That’s the name of that poet that she used to hate and now loves. Elizabeth Bishop, she apparently was a lesbian and wrote poems about fish. There’s a joke in there somewhere I just know it. I had a look at some of her poems. Yes, we’ll leave it there shall we?
Yesterday I was too lazy to cook dinner, I rang Mammy2 to see what she wanted to do. She was still suffering from the few drinks she had on Monday night so I picked up takeout. Got home to the kid fast asleep on the bed and Mammy2 sitting with a knife and fork in her hand waiting for dinner. The kid surfaced about an hour later.
She nattered about her day. Her fav teacher is out for the last few days, I think she’s worried she might not be returning. The irish teacher ripped into them all for doing so badly on their irish test. They had the test on Monday and none of them passed it. Apparently she was so upset , she had to go to bed rather then correct the test! Afterwards the kid went up and explained that it was her first test since getting back and she had loads of other homework so she didn’t get a chance to study. The teacher must like her as she was happy enough with the kid’s explanation of why she did badly.
There was the usual rant about how much homework she has, whilst logging on to MSN. She was logging on to the PC to ‘ work on her essay ‘. This obviously involved chatting to people online. She was in shock because I didn’t want to use it. I was taking a break. She didn’t hold back her surprise. At different stages when I looked at the screen, her essay looked a lot like MySpace. She is very excited about some band called The Haunted coming in January. They are her favourite band EVER. Them and about 5 other bands I think. I thought she loved Launca Coil. Mammy2 assumed she as a huge fan of Slayer. Teenagers, fickle. She’s dealing with the breakup quite well. People were asking her how she could dump someone over MSN. I mean, come on, its not like they were going out for years. She was with him a couple of times and hasn’t seen him since? I’m sure he’s not down at Heartbreak Hotel drowning his sorrows.
She’s so funny on the PC. She assumes that everyone is who they say they are on MSN. So, one guy she was chatting to said he was from Columbia. Another dude she knew was in Galway and trying to outdo the Columbian said he spoke fluent Spanish. Threw a couple of phrases out and the kid was all “Oh my god, D, can like speak fluent spanish.” Eventually he owned up to using the Google Language tool just to show off as the other guy was talking Spanish to the kid. Men. I tried telling her that
these 2 people could be chickens with really good computer skills? She was having none of it.
I got a phone call all the way from South Africa yesterday! The mate R, ringing to fill me on how she’s being pampered and has no work to do. Obviously she was oozing sympathy for me, who was still in work after 5. It was great to hear from her, its weird adjusting to the fact that she’s not working away somewhere in Dublin or giving out about something via a glass of gin! She sounded in good form, she’s catching up with her sister today who she hasn’t seen since June. I’m sure there’ll be tears and hugs.
