I was “That Girl” in class today… December 4, 2007

No, not in a good way. Oh, man. I mean, it was pretty funny, but, well… A little bit of background: yesterday, I got a new phone. (Side note: I spent TWO HOURS at the Telefonica store yesterday, which is, as near as I can tell, a dressed up DMV. Seriously. WHY it took them TWO HOURS to be able to attend to me, and all I wanted to do was buy a phone–I mean, give them money and leave–is beyond me.) Anyway, right, I got a new phone. Which I have not yet had time to play with enough to learn its functions. It even occurred to me, on the way to school this morning, that I should probably figure out how to turn it to silent (rocket science, I know) but I pretty much ended up spacing out all the way to school (shocking, I know) and forgot all about it. Anyway, no one ever calls me, especially not during the school day, so who cares, right? WRONG! At approximately 10 this morning, my phone started to ring. And it’s one of those rings that gets louder and louder as you don’t answer it. Oh, and I always always always sit in the front row. So I frantically reach for my bag (that’s vibrating and humming a catchy little Chopin ditty ever more loudly), pull out my phone, and hit every button my clammy little fingers can touch. To no avail. The phone keeps humming and vibrating and getting louder. I’ve now caught my Marketing prof’s attention–awesome. He looks at me inquisitively and I apologize and say in rushed and red-faced spanish “lo siento, es nuevo!” So I finally hit a button that makes the ringing stop, and what is it? Speaker phone! (“Hola, buenos dias, estoy llamando para Crystal Combs.”) I’m horrified! And my professor, and now the whole class, is watching, and what does my prof do? He TAKES THE PHONE from me, and, in front of my entire class, TAKES A MESSAGE!!! The class was, needless to say, completely cracking up. Ummmm, so, yeah, it was pretty awesome. I think I was bright red for the entire rest of the class. And obviously, I’ve now figured out how to switch it to silent…