Snippets from this weekend in Chicago and exam preparation!

Snippet 1
J: No man gets married willingly!
Me: You know I am frightened that I am friends with you.
J: It's true, ask any man in here. Men are tricked, guilted, and trapped into marriage; they don't get married willingly.
Me: Ask him, he's married. (pointing to the innocent bysitter(IB) to the conversation)
IB: (with smirk on his face) I am not getting into this conversation.
Me: Now there is a smart man!
J: Look at him smirking, you know he agrees with me.
Me: (deep groan!)

Snippet 2

(First to set the stage, the air show was in Chicago last weekend. And I have an overwhelming fear that one day the Sears Tower will come down as the WTC did.)

Walking out of Gleacher Center with J:
(Loud sound of aircraft flying low and close and reverberating off downtown buildings)
Me (thought): No Not while I am actually here!
J: Cool, the air show!
Me: (sigh of relief) That is not the sound you want to hear coming out of class.
J: Yeah it is.
Me: Not after 9-11
J: Yeah it is, that noise means they are blowing the bastards out of the sky.
(Blue Angels scream by a second time stopping us dead in our tracks to watch)
Me: (laughs)
J: I love this country!
Me: Why?
J: Because only in this country can a guy have breakfast in Missouri, jump in his aircraft, fly to Iraq, where some ***hole sits on his camel with a rifle saying I hate Americans, only to hear that sound you just heard right before he gets blown up, and our guy is still home in time to nail his girlfriend.
Me: (laughs) so true.

Back home, Monday night cell phone rings, caller ID says J:

J: OMG, Tammy! (sounding totally out of breathe and in a panic!)
Me: What's wrong, hon?
J: I went to Balki's class just now thinking it was the last class since I missed class on Saturday morning.
Me: Yeah, why aren't you still in class?
J: I got the hand out and waited for class to start. Balki stands up and says ok, you can start the exam. Tammy, it was the F***ing Final!
Me: (holding back laughter)
J: I went up to Balki and said I need to see you outside now. (out in the hall) Professor Balki, I thought this was the last class. I miss class on Saturday. I can't answer these questions. I swear I didn't look at the exam.
PB: (LAUGHS) I'll see you Saturday for the exam.
J: (still out of breathe and panicked mumbling incoherently)
Me: (laughing now) ok, its all right. take a deep breathe.
J: I need to go get a beer.
Me: good idea, I'll call ya later.

Text Messages later in the night:
Me to J: Are you breathing again?
J to Me: My heart just finally slowed down.
Me to J: Good, I'm working on the review questions.
J to Me: F*** it, I don't care anymore.
Me to J: Awww hon, get a good nights sleep and hit the ground running tomorrow.

Text Messages Tuesday Night:
J to Me: This sample exam is ridiculous!
Me to J: I know.
J to Me: I'm scared.
Me to J: Me too.
J to Me: Want to talk tomorrow night?
Me to J: Yes.

We didn't talk til Friday night:
We are both f***ed!