h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...how many people down here at school ask me if I'm Amish when I tell them I'm from Lancaster, Pa. I guess it seems obvious to me, but if I was Amish I wouldn't be here... much less a lot of other things. I just find that amusing.

One of these days I'll have the time to work on my Amish entry, just to clear up confusion. But I'm too busy right now....

School will be over soon and then you'll have all the time you'll need!

The Amish entry is off to a great start, it just needs the second half.

Yeah... I just need to do a bit of research on it... or just pick my mom's brain to pieces.

Same thing, really...

And she's going to be very busy this summer, Jimi... Clive is arriving in June, and they're going to Shea and TJs wedding in July, and of course the Pennsylvania Dutch meet, and she's got that audition to practice for (and you can bet she's gonna get nagged)

Practice? What's that?

*hands on hips*

I can very easily recruit the people in your house to join me in nagging, you know...

I don't think you realize I was serious... what's practicing?

I really don't practice that much... not in the true sense of the word, anyway... no more than half an hour a day for me... and during the school year I'm lucky if I get that much time in at all.

Which leads me to the question: how *did* I make honors recital auditions, anyway?

The real question is, if you're that good with hardly any practice, how would you sound if you *did*?

Such a talent for nagging!

I almost went out, bought an instrument and started practicing...

That wasn't a nag...

A point of personal amusement, Amy... what you said above about "just imagine how you'd sound if you actually practiced!" is verbatum what both parents used to tell me when I was younger.

They gave up nagging me about it, it seems.

My parents used to say the same thing to me too...

...I'll have to watch saying it to *my* kids.

Must be a Pennsylvania thing.

Maybe, but my dad's from southwest Virginia, and my mom's from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

So you're saying that it's a parent thing?


Does that mean I'm turning into a Grown-Up?

Apparently... as impossible as it seems.