Yai: You feeling better? Maria: A little. I still sound like a man. Yai: What you gonna do about it? Go to doctor? Maria: No. I'm getting better. Yai: Why don't you get Sara to rub your back with alcohol? Maria: Who's Sara? Yai: Your girlfriend!
For the record:
Yai = My grandma. She's Greek and sometimes forgets to speak English.
Sara = Tara (my roommate since freshman year)
According to Greeks (or at least Yai), rubbing alcohol all over yourself will cure anything.
Reintroduced the "Maria's excited bark" after seeing snow on the ground
Made my Christmas list (it's in your inboxes, mom and dad)
Had a dance party to Safety Dance with Ali
Conversations I've had: Maria: Oh! You know that swimmer Michael Phelps? He's shooting a commercial right next to my apartment. Yai: Why aren't you talking to him! Maria: I can't just talk to him. There are security guards and police everywhere. Yai: You go. You tell them your Yia-yia is 90 years old and wants an autograph. Maria: Yai... you're not 90. Yai: Lie.
[Via e-mail] Dad: Please remember to bring the gift certificate when you come home. Maria: It's already in my wallet beeyotch. Dad: That is improper spelling.
Maria: EEEEPPP. Ali: You make weird noises.
Countdown to Freedom: Maria’s Checklist
12/9: Theories and Processes of Communication final paper presentation
12/11: Theories and Processes of Communication final paper due
12/12: Office party (woo)
12/13: Secret Santa with 426
12/15: Cultural Anthropology final paper due
12/16: Conflict Res and Negotiation presentation
12/16: Conflict Res and Negotiation final exam
12/18: Cultural Anthropology final exam
12/19: Theories and Processes of Communication final exam
My favorite part of visiting family is staying up late at night talking.
Last night at the dinner table at about 10 PM, Yai announced she had a joke to tell us.
Yai: Ok. I have a joke. Maria: Oooh! Yai: A long time ago in a small village in Greece, there was a donkey... [Maria and Steve erupt with laughter] Yai: What's so funny? Steve: Jokes don't usually start like that. They're usually about something racist or sexist or gross, not small villages in Greece.
Yai finished her joke and had to explain the punch line because we didn't get it.
Steve decided to share a more modern joke about three hungry guys who go to a stranger's farm asking for food. The farmer lets them pick whatever they want as long as they show him before they leave. The first guy comes back with grapes. The farmer says, "you can have them but you have to shove them up your butt."
Here's the end of the joke. Yai needed some explanation too.
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