You've got your legscrossed like a girl," he said.I looked down and realized I did. I uncrossed them looking a littleirritated. It was strange tho...a...t my age male students didn't crosstheir legs at the knee, because evidently it was gay. Which caused me abit of grief since I basically never did that. I looked up at the clockand realized we were only 5 minutes into class...damn..45 more minutes ofthis crap.I heard a bell ringing. But I seemed totally zonked...I was staring atthe chalkboard.. “Hey Bro. Hey Elena. How are you doing this fine morning.” Christopher looked to his watch. “Yep still morning. More importantly how did your date go last night?”“It went really well. I loved every minute of it.” Elena declared as she held tight to my arm.“Oh really. How about the part when you thought our waitress had the hots for me?” I teased.She laughed a little then said, “Okay. That part wasn’t my favorite. But it wasn’t that bad. And besides I may have been exaggerating my reaction a. It was my mistake and I had to fix it. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on,’ she spat, taking a big swallow of beer. ‘Come on, let’s go get lunch at McGillicuddy’s and then do the booze run. Maybe that will get your mind off it.’ ‘Yeah … let’s do that.’ She seemed to brighten up at that suggestion. I volunteered to put her papers in the safe and she agreed. If my observations were correct, she was coming out of her funk and getting back to normal. It seemed she was very resilient. We left. @ @ @ @Ellen and George with the baby in tow, spent several hours at the doctor'soffice. They related the entire story to the astonished medicalprofessional. He did a comprehensive physical and ordered several tests.Ellen was there the entire time with Ariel in her lap.In the end the doctor admitted, "I'll be honest with you. This isuncharted territory for me and well outside my sphere of knowledge so I'mgoing to refer you to a specialist for a deeper investigation." With aserious.