Maybe it’s that Papaya woke up last night crying and proceeded to spend a few hours throwing up every twenty minutes or so, but today I’m a bit cranky. She is better and eating again, even napping, but I’m very annoyed at my mid-day NPR experience. I’m obviously addicted to blogging because I started to think about how to blog this as I drove home listening to the story…
Our local NPR Station is for the most part, great. I even got used to the Diane Rehm Show which freaked us out at first because of her spasmodic dysphonia which makes her sound a whole lot older than she really is. So…today I’m driving post-lunch-date with my toddler and the show is on and it’s about something I love; Books!
Guest host Steve Roberts is talking to John Heath (award-winning teacher, scholar, lecturer, and co-author of “Who Killed Homer?) and Lisa Adams (a recipient of the Woodall Essay Prize and the McCann Short Fiction Award). A woman calls in to talk about Harry Potter and how she’s glad to, um, hear that, um, the book will, uh, be taught in classrooms, um, in, um, 10 to 15 years for sure! Okay, I get that the caller is nervous about being on the radio and it happens. In the next five minutes I noticed more um, uh, um out of these WRITERS who are on the radio and even the host than I cared to count. Mr. Heath and Ms. Adams were a great improvement from the female caller but I was so sad to hear intelligent commentary punctuated by uh.
Why was I so annoyed? Because I love listening to NPR and I tell myself that hearing intelligent conversation from adults other than her parents (we mostly grunt at one another) is good for Papaya. Now, with Diane off on some vacation my poor toddler is reduced to learning that instead of a moment of silence (perfectly acceptable in conversation) adults say uh, um, uh a lot.
Dear God help WAMU if my toddler wakes up from this nap and starts punctuating her sentences with uh and um.
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Oh, and I also start forming blog posts in my head before I can get to a computer. A lot of times while I’m running I think about what I’m going to say about the run. Only thing is I usually forget what I wanted to say, but remember that whatever it was I came up with in my head was invariably more eloquent and interesting than what actually gets typed up.