Just a couple of things:

I am so frustrated. I fall asleep for four hours, thinking that there's no way that I'll be able to claim the spot in that biology class in the wee hours of the morning because no one would drop it at around that time.

And then I wake up and check my email only to find a message from Katie, telling me she secured a bio spot, asking me if I have yet.

... This is a joke, right? The registrar is probably somewhere laughing it up right now.
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Okay, on with the blogging.

I didn't go to the park to run today because the temperature dipped early this morning and it would be extra cold in the shade overe there. Thus, I just ran to the waterfront and back, which is only 3 miles round-trip but hey, it gets the job done.

Anyway, as I'm running and approach a bus stop from about a block away, I see a little girl who couldn't be older than five-years old waiting there alone. It struck me as odd at first but I assumed that her mom was standing somewhere nearby and that I just couldn't see her.

As I got closer, I realized that she was alone and kind of got worried. So I crossed the street to the bus stop and started talking to her. When I asked her where her mom was and all that, she shyly pointed in the direction of a house. I asked why her mom wasn't with her and she simply told me that "mommy told me to wait here."

Worst case scenarios being what they are, I couldn't just leave her there--if it turned up in the paper that something had happened to her, it would be on my conscience. So, I told her that I was just going to wait with her until her mommy got back.

When her mom did get back, she gave me an awfully suspicious look (you're right, I'm not white, but that doesn't make me a criminal). I explained to her that this is the quiet time of the day when bad things happen and I didn't want to leave the girl alone and risk the possibility of her being abducted or hurt. ... This woman then starts to berate me for "telling her how to be a parent" and all of that good stuff.

Look, lady, I wasn't trying to lecture you on good parenting skills, but perhaps that's what you need. You were just lucky that it was I who saw your daughter first and not some pervert. Seriously, what kind of mother leaves their baby standing alone at a bus stop early in the morning when it is a very good possibility that there are weirdos about? So much for maternal instinct.

Whatever. Why can people be so stupid?