I need to get a sign to wear around the LLL department: "No, I am not married to Macheak!" I got asked again today by another LLL grad student if Macheak and I are married! This is twice in as many days! I told her calmly that no, he and I aren't married; we just spend a lot of time together because we're friends and we're working on a presentation together. She explained that she knew I was married because I've refered to my husband in class before, and she seemed to recall me saying something about my husband and French, but she couldn't recall if my husband was French or spoke French or taught French or what. Remembering the class she was refering to, I explained that I had said that my husband knows the exact meaning of three French phrases: Qu'est-ce que tu fais?! (What are you doing?!), qu'est-ce que c'est? (What is that?), and je t'aime (I love you). Since I tend to never refer to the husband by name around people who don't know him (because they don't know him and won't know who this "Ian" character I'm talking about is), they just know I'm married and mentally start trying to match me with someone. Macheak, oddly enough, does this very same thing because every time he sees me with one of my friends, he has asked me if I'm married to the guy I was seen with. He has confused the following for Ian: Lushbaugh, Miller, George, Damien, Dave, and I think also John. He never asked if Nick was my husband because he had Nick in class, but he did say that Nick and I should date because we're so fond of picking on each other. <Rolls eyes> I think there's something seriously wrong with most people's heads, or at least their interpretation skills or perception or something. Or maybe I shouldn't get a sign that says "I'm not married to any of the following:…" Maybe I should get a huge sign that says: "Property of Ian Doyle" and leave it at that. I mean, my life isn't really all that confusing, but people sure mistake it to be!
Posted: October 13, 2004 um halb zehn.
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