G has finished his finals (All A's. That's MISTER Smarty-Pants to you) and will have his official graduation ceremony next week. Several of his family members are coming to town for the event, some a soon as tomorrow, others over the weekend, so we will have a cast of rotating dinner and overnight guests at our place for the next week and a half.
God I'm dreading this. Not his family --I have yet to meet a single person in G's family that I don't like, that's not the problem. It's that they're Texans; from the land of sprawling rancharific hugeness. And some of them --most importantly, those staying with us-- have never been to New York City. Ever. Oh the BIG surprise they'll receive when they cross our threshold. We tried to warn them, we kept saying, "You're welcome to stay with us, but our place is really small," but they kept assuring us, "Oh, that's just fine!" in their ever-cheerful, go-with-the-flow Texan way; a way that screams they have no idea that really small means a bit more than not having a full-bath off the guest room. That it means no guest room. It means you convert the couch into a bed, and once you've done that, there's no room, room. I've been imagining his aunt opening and reopening closet doors upon her arrival; convinced one of them has to be a porthole to the rest of the apartment. You know, like all those extra rooms the kids on Friends have.
So anyway, I'll be taking my leave of the web for awhile. Please visit all the nifty people to your right, and play nice while I'm gone.
Posted by Antigeist at May 26, 2004 02:50 PM