Pregnant ladies...

Last night, I had a pleasant dinner with my university friends Heather and Edna over at Baton Rouge... Mei was too sick to join us unfortunately... we usually get together every few months... this time was quite interesting given Heather's now 7 and a half months preggers... Heather, you look great by the way!... the most interesting thing I learned about last night was about Lamaze (sp?) classes... those were always a mystery to me... like why does it take so many classes and so long to learn how to breathe? So that was cleared up pretty quickly... I never knew all the little different things they teach you or remind you of in those classes, like when you should go to the hospital, what you should expect, what your husband should do, what exercises you can or can't do, good massage techniques, what different drugs do... basically it's a pregnancy-for-dummies course. I find that pregnant women also suddenly have a whole new awareness and knowledge of human physiology and biology, as Heather was spewing out all kinds of facts about spinal chords and the stomach and human development, which were all way above my head (i'm definitely not anatomy-inclined), which is somewhat unusual for me, since I'm pretty good in most other subject areas (biology and US politics are definitely my two worst Jeopardy categories)... anyways, it was quite fascinating...

naming babies is a whole-nother topic area we went through... i have no idea what i'd name my kid... heather was complaining that andy (her husband) wouldn't let her name the kid any name he'd heard of unless it was named after a family member... so like, "what about Ronald"... "nope, i knew a ronald in high school"... I think most guys are like that though, because I could totally see myself saying the same thing... and you don't want to name the kid the same name as one of your friends, since they'll think you named it after them... nor do you want a super-common name, otherwise there'd be 10 Christines or Sarahs in their class... but then you don't want a super-unusual name like named after a state (Dakota, Montana) or something else, or an ethnic name that doesn't match (like Diego or Vincenzo)... too many factors... and even when you decide on a name, odds are you'll probably change it anyways... i'm still glad my parents decided to go with Jay instead of their original choice, which was Peter... I don't think i'd be a good Pete...

Anyways, speaking of pregnant women, happy birthday Mandee!!!

Boo to the Raptors who lost to Phoenix last night... I'm done with the recaps for now... Don't want them to dominate my blog... just bad playmaking decisions in that game. easily should have won that game in the first half, but they totally blew it...