In addition to teaching lots of private lessons and directing three teenage performance groups, I also direct an adult band, which currently has eight people between about 30 and 70 in it. I’m 28 and my codirector is in his 30s, but this week, he was out, so the school owner guy, who’s in his 40s, subbed for him, making me the youngest person in the room by a margin of at least ten years.

In past iterations of this adult band, we’ve had some non-parent members, but right now, everyone in the band is a parent, and the owner guy also is, so this past week, I was also the only non-parent in the room, so naturally, everybody was passing around Father’s Day well-wishes. And inevitably, one of the moms asked me, “what about you, teuast? Do you have any kids?” So of course I said no, and she said “Oh, not yet.”

Not yet. Lol. I have a vasectomy and a girlfriend with a bisalp.

I did tell my girlfriend about it and she was suitably derisive, but in the moment I just let it slide off me. Nothing to be gained from explaining what’s going on with my balls to a bunch of geezers at my work who I’m not sleeping with. And it’s not going to come up again for at least another year, because, again, at work.