Teddy Bear

New Yorkers love to joke about county fairs, but I think they're the greatest! I still have a stuffed dolphin in my car that I won throwing darts at balloons. I didn't even hit that many balloons, guys! They still let me have it!

Sunday is for Coats!

Nothing new in Sunday's strip, except that everyone is wearing coats now? Weird. Tommie, is it really professional to be wearing your coat durring the ultrasound and everything? The ultrasound... which as a midwife, you are qualified to give. Just seconding Megan's post:

1. What, Tommie, now you're a doctor? That's really going to cut into your hours at the studio.

2. Nina smoking during a pregnancy?? Isn't this one of those things that educated, well-to-do woman would never do anymore, like blowdrying your hair in the bath?

Mother of the Year

Is Tommie a doctor now? Why is she delivering the results? And just because Nina has high blood pressure doesn't mean she smokes. She could have preeclampsia. Tommie, maybe you should stop playing doctor for a second and get a professional in there.

OK, I think we can stop beating the dead horse of how little Nina wants to have this baby and discuss how horrified I would be if someone that I knew was like "Hey, do you want to midwife my baby (that I don't really want)?" How could you ever have a normal relationship with someone after you've ripped a slimy, alien-looking life form from their loins?

Cute When It Isn't Annoying

Okay, just me, or is Tommie starting to look more and more like a transvestite bum? If it's just me I'll shut up about it.

Okay, prediction time: Nina overworks herself into exhaustion and has the baby early. Tommie delivers it, even though she took Midwifing 101 like five years ago when she was trying to cultivate a personality. I just wonder how much of the delivery we're going to get to see. This could take a turn for the graphic.

I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

I'm not sure if Nina is so excited because she thinks as a midwife, Tommie can get this thing out of her in time for her 1:00 meeting, or because she has no idea what a "midwife" is, and is operating under the misunderstanding that the term has something to do with being a sort-of-wife, meaning that Tommie could act as a stand-in for Nina and help her poor husband raise their spawn... er... child. Either way, she's in for some huge disappointment.

Talk that Talk

Why show when you can tell? Lu Ann and Ruby are having a grand old time with Granny Wright. Do you really need to see them to know this? No. Isn't just as good to hear Margo say it? Yes. Yep. This is going prettttty good. I hope the Professor calls in next. I miss hearing what he's doing second-hand.

Telephone

Sorry Tommie, did you want to talk to Lu Ann? I was getting an urgent call from 1998 on this Nokia phone, so I had to hang up. I also got the neat feature where instead of hitting the end button and getting a beep, you just shake it and it makes a click like an old timey rotary phone. Did you want to play Snake while you wait for Lu Ann to call again?

Happy Valentine's Day to all the loyal blog readers! I hope that you've found a relationship with more depth and future than any in the A3G world.