Without my iPod

At the college library (oh, irony...)

Guy to his friend: Are you sure they weren’t speaking German in Red Square?

Tomorrow's leaders, today.

Girl in the library: …That is so stupid! The whole point of college is, like, to do what you wanna do…I mean, if one more person fuckin’ talks to me about this race shit…I mean, I hate feminists because of this stupid race and culture class that we’re, like, forced to take, or whatever. They’re just man-hating bitches…”

While listening to her, I died a little inside.

Girl on the bus

To her friend, who obviously wasn’t at the party last night: And Amanda? was like, there? and so was, like, John? and that Rene kid? It wasn’t too bad…It was terrible.

Girl in the back of the class

Emptying out her purse, she says to her friend: Organic mascara…That’s how I roll.

At City Market

In the chips aisle:

Girl to her friend: I think bacon is undergoing a renaissance…

Class discussion

Sometimes my eavesdropping takes the form of reading other people’s stuff. In this instance, I’m required to read my classmates’ discussion topic answers and respond to them. Here are but a few of the choicest tidbits…

• I think science and technology will be working to solving these problems society has identified as necessary science and technology.
• will the problem just linger around until we run out or are close to running out of our will we begin to take a much more serious approach to the problem in the near future.
• I think those in charge of making science based decisions about the future will be government leaders and the scientist that are actually advancing science.
• This will just continue to develop the ease of communication will be easier than it is today.
• The convenience of the internet is amazing to pay bills, email, shop, and so on but it really does take away from a lot areas in life that people use to socialize in throughout history.
• The future of science is totally dependent on what become human interest.
• When people wanted to move from one part of the country to the next much faster we developed transportation that over time as evolved to not only make that distance shorter but also more luxurious.
• The field of genetics will be the field which has the greatest advancements due to the fact that it is the basis of all most life forms.

At Shalimar of India

A young couple at the neighboring table:

Girl: Well…We can’t actually live in The Shire, you see…So England will have to do.

Student presentations

Student: There are a lot of theories that they [the Egyptians] developed Pi. There’s no real evidence that they really came up with it and thought of it as something really awesome.

At the grocery store

College-age girl, to her friend: You get the butter, I’ll go get the chicken.

(then, under her breath): crispy chicken, crispy chicken, crispy chicken, crispy chicken…

(For all I know, she’s still mumbling that to herself.)

A Halloween party

Heading onto the grocery store, we passed a group of people coming out.

Guy: I went to a Halloween party last night? With Ellie? and she was, like, dressed as a slutty……..