April 24, 2004
Well, it’s official. The whole fertility thing has completely infested my brain. I ran into my neighbor as I was returning from checking the mail. I had seen him around before but never spoken to him. I had met his wife before and learned that they are both lawyers. The first thing my neighbor asked me was about what law firm my husband worked at. I had mentioned to his wife that my husband was also a lawyer. He asked me if my husband worked at firm X, and I replied that he worked at firm Y, but that he had clerked at both firms X and Y during the summer of 2002. Except that I said “he worked at both sperms that summer.” Oh my god! I quickly corrected myself, but the damage was done. Sperms, firms, they both sound the same, right? I came back into the apartment and told my hubby what had happened. He had a good laugh at my expense.