Liam Pulls His Pants Down in the Forum

Today, Chris, Liam, Kalian and I walked to school together because Chris was taking the kids to the aquarium with other ksg parents - read "moms" and kids. I thought it would be nice to all walk together, but I was feeling stressed for time, and Chris tripped while carrying Kalian in the backpack and hurt his hand. We were both kind of cranky on the beautiful yet scorching hot walk across Harvard Yard.

When we arrived, I said my good-byes and hurried off to Quant class. A few minutes after the class started, I saw/heard/felt my cell phone buzzing. I had it set to vibrate. It was Chris. Should I ignore it? Go outside to answer it? I decided to turn off the phone. Feeling guilty in case something terrible happened to the kids, I went outside to call Chris back. From where I stood I could look out at the courtyard and see the stroller but not the kids. Did something happen?

When Chris answered the phone he said he had forgotten to bring cash and was I still around. Harupmph. How dare he interrupt me for that. I did have a wad of cash - but back in the classroom. Should I go back into the class, get my purse, find Chris, give him the money, deal with the kids, especially Kalian, wanting me again, and miss some new second derivative function Maria was introducing that was probably way over my head? "Borrow some money," I said and went back into class. Glad I did.

Another challenging class that really works my mommy brain. During my econ class, we were talking about price ceilings (i.e. rent control) and price floors (i.e. minimum wages). Blessed Jod'i reiterated how these "government interventions" which inherently in the terminology makes it sound like a bad thing - how dare the government interfere in the amazing free market...how they, well, screw up our economic system - she didn't use those words, but that was the thrust. Right after she said, "losers lose more than winners win" in reference to price ceilings/floors, she then added, "It's not my job to say whether they are good or bad. That's your job." Huh? One libertarian dude - forget his name - sweet guy yet an incredible libertarian ranted about this issue. Sigh. Fortunately, I have some sisters in the room - the mass superior court judge and juanita, the puerto rican activist.

Juanita and I had a nice talk, then I invited her to meet some folks for lunch - basically, a student had sent out a great article from John Pilger about the opportunities that Bolivians have with Morales as prez - there was a lot of backlash, lumping him in bed with true dictators - I had e-mailed the more left responders to meet me for lunch adjacent to the forum. The Forum is the simultaneously large yet intimate space for speakers, small meetings, large getherings, etc. That's where presidents and other world leaders speak. The school is very well organized, and it's nice to find various nooks and crannies to eat, study, blog, etc. Anyway, we were having a nice chat when I saw Chris and the kiddies return. I went to meet them and brought them up to meet some of the other students. It was nice to be able to breastfeed Kalian then since I feel like I'm still letting down in the late afternoon. Though it was in the midst of Pamela really trying to figure out why in the heck I'm here. I forgot for a moment...Then I remembered, just as Liam decided he did, indeed, need to go pee. So he pulled down his pants right then and there to go...