my friend, lindsay, is in country visiting me all of the way from minneapolis, minnesota this week(look it up on a map). i never know what to say when i have visitors from the states, does one still use the sweeping, "i have a friend in town?" or do would it be more accurate to state it as in country? i never know how to deal with that dilemma.

in other news, i've come to the conclusion that as much as we think that babies are so simple-minded with all of their laughing at repeated and silly facial gestures or as imbecilic as we might believe those ten year olds are for laughing at names like "Ben Bottom," (emphasis on the "Bottom" part of the name)--we really aren't much, if at all, more mature than them.

yesterday while walking to my one-to-one appointment with kath knapman, i was coming up on stopped traffic on allerton expecting that i would be able to cross, but suddenly as i'm standing there the light goes from red to yellow and opportunity is lost. a man in his 50's was sitting in a rather large truck and i caught his eye. before he could get that huge beast of a thing moving, he took the time to stick his tongue out at me and made a silly face and my response?

i thought it was hilarious. i gave him a big grin and a bit of a wave and giggled as i walked along. a silly face from a stranger had just completely brightened up a rather blaise day. and then i thought--that's how 8 month olds react to silly faces--and i, at 23, am entertained in the same exact way.

my theory was confirmed when after taking the myer-briggs personality test (i'm an ESFJ by the way), i was sitting with sarah as we began to look at what specialists had written about our personalities. sarah saw that one of the specialist's surname was "Butts." she thought it was hilarious. she made this knowing kind of face, and puckered her lips to try and stifle a laugh that would give away her very blatant adolescent mentality, but alas, she couldn't help herself and in a squeaky and amused voice she says, "His name is Butts!"

as intrigued i am at how easy it is to get a kid to laugh, i forget that those silly, simplistic, RIDICULOUS things are what taught us to laugh in the first place and that i'm really not as beyond an 8 month, or ten year old as i think.

come on--would you want YOUR last name to be Butts? Don't roll your eyes at me--be honest people. Imagine--Brit Butts.