The Longest Time.

This week is just dragging along.  At work, our 3rd graders have been hard at work taking the DC-CAS (which is the standardized test that determines whether or not our school makes AYP.)  It's a big deal.  Even though I'm not the one taking it, I am exhausted from it.  I think when the test booklets are around you just have a higher baseline of stress.

You know what's good for stress?  Trivia!


2) What was Melissa and Jamie’s first interaction?

a)            riding on the bus together in Junior High

b)           attending the same Elementary School

c)            playing in the same soccer league

d)           sitting together in High School art history 

So, Man Boo and I went to the same middle and high school.  While I can't remember the first time I saw him, or the first words ever exchanged, I do remember seeing his blond head of hair bouncing around in the front of the bus.  I was in the back of the bus with all of the other miscreants.  Actually, I was in the back because I was among the first to get on that bus..........at 5:20am every morning.  Man Boo, on the other hand, boarded the bus at the very last stop.  We never spoke.

My first Jamie-specific memory comes from ninth grade when I attended some singing concert and he and three other boys sang The Longest Time.  The quickest way to my heart is through Billy Joel.  I remember thinking that he was the cutest of the bunch.  Then we started dating two years later.  Okay, so maybe it wasn't the quickest way to my heart, but it made an impression.

Now that I think back on it, I also remember thinking that he could snap really loudly -- it was distracting me from the song.  This is funny to me now because he likes to make fun of the fact that I am unable to snap.  He enjoys emphasizing how pathetic that is by doing one of his "sonic snaps" whenever I make my feeble attempt.

Next time you're with him, ask him to snap -- it's uncanny how loudly he can do it.