I would be nervous to be the moderator and sitting with my back to the audience like that. I think it's odd to have them all sitting at the same little desk.
So creative with the bean story. No one else in the history of ultrasounds has ever thought of that.
That reminds me -- the day that my sister's baby books or emails or wherever preggos get the "what your fetus looks like this week and what parts are developing and what it's up to down there" info and told me that "this week your niece is the size of a jumbo shrimp" was the day that (1) I decided that I really don't think I like shrimp; and (2) decided that I don't think I want something that can be described as a jumbo shrimp (which is like the housefly of the sea) growing in me, ever.
So creative with the bean story. No one else in the history of ultrasounds has ever thought of that.
That reminds me -- the day that my sister's baby books or emails or wherever preggos get the "what your fetus looks like this week and what parts are developing and what it's up to down there" info and told me that "this week your niece is the size of a jumbo shrimp" was the day that (1) I decided that I really don't think I like shrimp; and (2) decided that I don't think I want a jumbo shrimp (which is like the housefly of the sea) growing in me, ever.
Very legitimate positions, both.
People really like to compare fetuses to fruits, vegetables, and, apparently crustaceans.
That reminds me -- the day that my sister's baby books or emails or wherever preggos get the "what your fetus looks like this week and what parts are developing and what it's up to down there" info and told me that "this week your niece is the size of a jumbo shrimp" was the day that (1) I decided that I really don't think I like shrimp; and (2) decided that I don't think I want a jumbo shrimp (which is like the housefly of the sea) growing in me, ever.
Very legitimate positions, both.
People really like to compare fetuses to fruits, vegetables, and, apparently crustaceans.
(note: there should have been a "thing that resembles a" before "jumbo shrimp" there)
I had lunch with him in the cafeteria once about ten years ago. I was meeting with a few congressmen re the Senate Finance Committee hearings. My exec was from Delaware and just walked up to him. It was cool.