Friday, January 12, 2007

In which I'm back, and I'm thoroughly terrified...

One of my coworkers had a baby a few months ago, and now she's back at work. She's recorded a 3-second clip of her son laughing, and is using it as her cellphone ringtone.

I'm sure this sounded like a cute idea at the time, but in practice it's just the creepiest thing I've ever heard. She consistently leaves her cellphone unattended in our shared office, and so, several times a day, a rapidly repeating clip of disembodied infant laughter emerges from her backpack, or her desk, or elsewhere. It's very unsettling.

In other news, Chiang Mai has been entirely spared the moderate confusion unfolding in Bangkok over the last couple of weeks. Things are tranquil here... perhaps overly so. More to follow...