Attention Required

You know that parent in the grocery store that is just completely focused on what they’re doing and ignoring the child? And then the child runs off and gets into trouble? Yeah…that was me this morning, sort of. I had had a really long weekend, what with my roommate being in the hospital (she’s fine now, though, Praise God!), and a bunch of other stuff going on, so even though I got up early and went running before class (which usually wakes me up) I was pretty zoned out during the first part of Spanish II this morning. Prada’s leash was around my ankle as she slept beside my desk—or so I thought. Somehow she slipped the leash off my foot and decided to take a walk out of the classroom. She got about 20 feet down the hall before I caught up with her, but I was so zoned out that I didn’t notice she had taken off until after a classmate pointed it out to me. Lesson here? NO MATTER HOW TIRED YOU ARE, HOW BUSY, YOU MUST PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR DOG! Just like that parent in the grocery store—the dependent comes first in the mind of the independent. Note to self: caffeine before Spanish, or a slightly larger dose of self-discipline.

Prada’s latest quirk? “How many people can I convince to run and get my ball for me?” I take her out into the hallway of the res hall to play fetch with her, and usually she has no issues with running all the way down after it. She thinks it’s a blast. But sometimes she’ll stop about a third of the way down and wait for me to run and get it for her. Today my friend and I decided to study philosophy questions for our exam while throwing the ball for Prada. She started refusing to run and get the ball but I wanted to stay and work on philosophy with Katrina so I decided to wait and see how long it would take her to make up her mind to get it for herself. Well she found another solution. A lot of the guys on our floor have succumbed to her charms and those coming to and from their rooms were more than willing to throw her ball back to her. The little flirt even got one guy to roll it directly into her mouth as she lay flat on the carpet! Goal scored, guys 