Aschenputtel

[porphyry]

Last night, Malkhos made Madeline pick up her own toys which she'd scattered hither and yon all over the toy room. She generally loves to scatter them but doesn't so much like picking them up.

In the middle of her labors, she cried out in frustration, "Why are you treating me like Cinderella?"

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I must be emitting strange pheromones in my pregnant state. Just yesterday, one of my male students told me he'd dressed up for class--he was rather dressed up--because he wanted to impress me so maybe I would go out on a date with him. No, he doesn't seem to be insane, but I haven't experienced such open flirting in a long time.

That was bad enough, but then, during my afternoon class, one of the chairs of a different department entered my classroom right near the end of class time because the chair needed to speak to a student. Instead of keeping out of my personal space and stating in low tones, "I need to see such and such after class," the woman gets right up close, reaches out, pulls my hair back so as to gain access to my left ear, and whispers her message; I could feel her breath in my ear--she was that close.

That shocked me so much that after she left, my class just sat looking at me silently as I looked at them silently. A minute or two passed.

"Well," I said. "That was rather weird, wasn't it? I do believe my lecture is concluded for the day." And I let them go.

These kinds of things are becoming quite common. Biology is rather odd. Nobody's ever found me quite so attractive before except Malkhos, but he's kind of stuck with me.

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Reading this and the comments, maybe I should be glad I am merely getting unwanted attention from: a 27- and 77-year olds (not related, I think), 40yr old so-hip-it-hurts drunken singers and middle-aged self-acclaimed geniusses at this moment. Which is quite enough. And I am not exactly Claudia Schiffer just almost fifty and still sort of blonde. At least I am definitely not pregnant, so I expect it can´t get much worse ... but one should never say that because it attracts bad karma immediately! I suspect, it is all my own silly fault for sending out these wrongful "signals" through being fatally friendly and from Sweden, as my upbringing and general sense of politesse often forces me to be. To a point... This personal-space invading thing has always fascinated me while deeply detesting it. I don´t get how some people don´t get it? Are you absolutely sure, you are not having twins or more, btw? Just an idea, you understand! Not, that not anyone would like to touch your hair as it is...especially me with my serious hair-envy.