Hello, Georgetown Day School community, and happy Leap Season to those who observe it! Personally, I don’t, so while all of you are enjoying March 3, I’m currently chilling on March 4. The weather isn’t half bad, but I won’t spoil any other surprises for you…let’s just say there are a few. While I won’t spoil the future, I have no problem spoiling the past. Here are some of the sentiments I’ve overheard in grasshopper circles as of late. I hope you enjoy them and feel like you’ve made a full and successful rotation around the sun; you deserve it.
“Sometimes I forget you’re kind of really good at animal noises.”
“Guys, look! This is the biggest gentrification place ever…Wait, we should low-key go in.”
Speaking of their college decision: “I just want to impress D.C. Urban Moms.”
“You’re Costa Rican? I thought you just liked going there.”
“He is so unapologetically himself.”
“He should be apologizing.”
“Watching the movie made me wanna be Regina George, which I feel like wasn’t the point.”
“…over the summer when I spent seven hours researching parrots each day…”
“I was raised on the streets of the Mushroom Kingdom.”
“I don’t know why people think I’m normal.”
“I just learned how to snap last week. I’ve been waiting for this for 18 years of my life. I’m a snapping machine now.”
“Guys, I love women—I’m not sexist.”
“I thought college would solve all my problems, but I guess not.” –a nine-year-old
“Didn’t your old dog try to, like, kill your whole family?”
“It’s okay that you lied that you were Belgian.”
“Has no one ever acknowledged you before? Because you look confused.”
“You would’ve had fun. You love culturally appropriating. That’s your vibe.”
“He’s really funny. I wish he was a likable person.”
As I start to write down someone’s quote for Overheard: “Oh, did I get it? Did I win again?!”