Momma Bear.
My mom is hilarious. Not intentionally hilarious, but the ditzy-funny kind of hilarious. I just spent 25 or so minutes on the phone with my mom discussing my future: wanting to continue my education, schooling and funding. I told her that if I didn’t get the funding that I need to stay in London that I would certainly be looking to return to the US for a PhD program that would provide funding. She, of course, requested that I return to California and was pushing for San Diego. I told her that that was definitely a possibility, but that I also wanted to apply to Columbia because their program seems to be in line with my research interests. Her response?
“Shannon! Columbia? That’s far!”
“I know, mom, but it’s not that bad. Their program’s really good and they would have funding.”
” Yeah, but Shan! You don’t even speak the language!”
(Long, pregnant pause.)
“Mom, Columbia University, not Colombia the country.”
“Oh…. yeah…. Columbia’s good.”
Oh, mom. You crack me up and you don’t even mean to.
OMFG that was the most LOL worthy moment, hands down! I just laughed for 10 minutes out loud at work in my office reading this… your Mother is hilarious. I’m so glad you blogged that to share.
… hahahaha. It’s hard to stop laughing just imagining this conversation happening… I miss her. Remember when she came over and drank about a half bottle of wine with us at the apartment that one time? Such an entertaining evening.