Nevergirl’s

The husband caught me looking up www.prenatalvitamins.net and swatted me. “It’s high time you stop obsessing over prenatal vitamins. You’re not pregnant,” he said.

“Aren’t I?”

I swear the look on his face as he gaped at me was pure golden, just golden. But of course I told him I was joking, to save him the coronary. I’m not sure if all men react to being told he will be a father again the same way the husband does. But, I got to tell you, that reaction was simply too cute for me to not to say the same thing again. Hahaha!

I guess the problem with being hooked to the Internet lifestyle is that while it’s true you can go anywhere so long as you have your laptop in tow, you really don’t. First, you spend your time worrying if the place you’re going to has Wifi. You find out it does, after a browse. Next, you worry about the connection speed. Is it fast enough? Turtle-slow? Unless you go check it out yourself, there’s just no way to know. So, you agonize over your choices (to go or not to go?) and in between decisions and near-decisions, you trawl the web endlessly for all sorts of bric-a-brac, including mesothelioma treatments and who Simon Cowell last snapped at.

That, dear friends, is the problem with having a laptop for a child. No matter how much you say you can travel anywhere just so long as it has Wifi, you’re so convinced your laptop needs you that you never do!

I was looking up the different types of whole life insurance — for work, so it’s bound to be boring, so never mind asking me what I learned. But yeah, I was looking up insurance lingo when I ran into this quote, “You can’t have a good conversation with someone who refuses to generalize.” I had to laugh at that one. I know generalizations are rarely, if ever, dead on but goshdarnnit, are they interesting! This reminds me of my high school teacher, Mr. S. He was so enamored with generalizations he starts and ends class with one. “All Filipinos are idiots, said the Spaniards,” he would begin. And then, just before walking out of the room, he’d say, “So all Filipinos are idiots, but all Spaniards were even bigger idiots for thinking that.”

I know that as a History teacher, Mr. S probably did minds more harm than good with his generalizations. However, I have never met a more interesting educator and what I didn’t learn in his class (or learned wrong, as it turned out), I learned on my own from the books I read.

So yeah, I enjoy generalizations. I’d mind a lot if I were pelted with them (with me for the subject, to boot), but I think that all things considered, generalizations make life more interesting – at least the written side of it.