so that was unexpected

today was mani/pedi day.  i don't do these often, especially in the winter and usually not at all when i have been treating my hands as horribly as i have been lately.  but.  i decided i wanted to have pretty toes for christmas.  you know, since i'll be swathed in five or six pairs of socks each day in the arctic temperatures of okc/springfield/stl.  yeah.  yall up there better get prepared - in case you forgot, i'm a wimp.

so back to my self-spoiling afternoon . . . typically when i get my hair cut or my nails did i am pretty quiet.  usually it's because i get so relaxed that i don't want to talk.  today, though, the salon was really slow and for a while i was the only customer in there, so it would have been really rude of me not to talk.  and as i am talking to the girl painting my toes (color selection: star of bombay - it ROCKS!) i find out that she is a senior at our rival high school.  so, we talked about football for a little bit since said rival high school (reigning texas state champs) are NOT playing to defend their title on saturday.  so that was fun.  and a little unexpected, but not the point of this blog.

when she found out i am an english teacher, she wanted to know what books we were reading, so i told her . . . . somehow our conversation came around to the fact that she is in gt english, which i teach at my school . . . and then somehow she started talking about hamlet and then our conversation morphed into a discussion about shakespeare and maybe a tom stoppard play or two and how you just don't "get it" until you see them performed.  for pretty much the rest of the time i was at the nail salon.  was it nerdy?  totally.   will i be going back?  um, yes.

maybe by that time i will have actually finished pride and prejudice and i can spend the mani/pedi time talking about how all of you people who love mr. darcy are totally cracked.