geek.

i have adjusted the comment feature on my blog, so if you're looking for a comment that you've left, it's probably not there anymore. i figured now that blogger finally offers decent commenting features for free, why should i pay someone else? the comments left on the old engine are still in my possession, thankfully. i'd hate to lose them.

last night, the captain and i had drinks and appetizers with one of my associates and her husband. we had a nice time and all of us were talkative, eliminating the awkward silences that can ruin an evening with someone you don't know very well. somewhere in the conversation, j. mentioned that her son (who stays with us after school 2 days a week) got chosen as "student of the week." when your kid gets chosen for this, you have to make a poster giving a little glimpse into the kid's favorite things, what they want to be when they grow up, etc. well, her son said that he wanted to be darth vader when he grows up. knowing that they are not star wars fans in the least and that their son has been watching the originals with punkin in the afternoons when he is here, i was pretty sure he got the notion from hanging out with us.

"isn't darth vader a bad guy?" j. asked. instead of saying what i should have ("yes") and letting it go, i told her that darth vader is just misunderstood, which launched a semi-philosophical conversation about anakin/darth vader/luke skywalker. so, in the end, j. decided that wanting to be darth vader when one grows up is not the horrible thing that she had imagined. i am such a geek!