2/26/26

 Avery has a girl that has befriended her in one of her classes. It was not by Avery’s choice or consent. This girl continues to wait for Avery after class and chat her ear off. Avery was telling me about it and I apologized to her for “the curse”. I also have “the curse”.

The curse is that random people find comfort in your company quickly and over share many details. It happens out in public all the time. But I never want to be rude and either try to politely leave or end the conversation.

Avery sent me a 30 second snippet of the girl talking AT Avery in one continuous run on sentence of nonsense. This poor girl just had diarrhea of the mouth and Avery has become the diaper.

I started suggesting helpful ways for Avery to exit the conversation. My go-to was having active diarrhea.

I told Avery to drive the conversation in a way that would make the girl perceive Avery as “weird” and want to avoid her.  We started brainstorming topics and this is what we came up with:

Thoughts on donated hair.

Ear wax candle building for environmental sustainability.

Recycled cat fur sweaters

Fingernail collecting

Life size Toe nail clipping artistic sculptures

We were cracking up at the thought of these topics and how this poor girl would react if Avery brought these up with a straight face.

I had a comp day today, so I had a grocery getting, laundry doing, cookie making (and eating) kind of day. Not bad at all. My back was a little sore today. I powered through my exercises anyway. But I didn’t like it.

I even watched a movie while catching up on work stuff, even though I wasn’t supposed to be working. I like what I do so it doesn’t actually feel like work.

We even squeezed in a short visit with my Mom and step dad!!!