{"id":199,"date":"2018-11-19T23:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.susqu.edu\/podcast\/?p=199"},"modified":"2018-11-19T23:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:32:25","slug":"audio-bio-sarah-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Audio Bio: Sarah Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/532421901&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wordpress.susqu.edu\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2018\/11\/Name-Photo-for-Website_lopezs_attempt_2018-10-26-15-06-20_Screenshot_20181026-145459_2-300x282.png?resize=300%2C282\" alt=\"Sarah Lopez sitting in front of a microphone\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Jazzy music intro)\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I was 4, a bee flew up my dress and stung my back a few times. My mom, being\u00a0the caring new mother,\u00a0she was, rushed her crying daughter to the closest ER\u00a0(insert ambulance sounds)\u00a0because this was my first bee sting, and she was worried that I could have possibly been allergic.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well I wasn\u2019t.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apparently by the time she arrived I was fine, just a few welts on my back and a tear stained face asking for stickers because I knew doctors always had stickers for kids. I don\u2019t remember any of this, not a single moment, but as far as I can tell, the moral of the story is, I love stickers, and hate bees.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Jazz music transition)<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I was\u00a09,\u00a0I went to a waterpark\u00a0(water splashing sounds should be here)\u00a0with my mom and cousins. We were climbing the stairs to one of the larger waterslides, innertubes in hand, dripping with water and excitement. A bee made its way over to\u00a09-year-old\u00a0me and I freaked out, stuck in between wet people, cold innertubes, and hot cement.\u00a0My mom insisted that I stood still and let the bee do its thing.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well I couldn\u2019t.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Crying, I flung my innertube down the steps in hope\u00a0of distracting the yellow demon and clung to my mother. Moral of this story is bees are still horrible and waterslides are okay I guess.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Jazz music transition)<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I was 15, I sat in\u00a0my mom\u2019s\u00a0Toyota, eating a slice of pizza and listening to her talk about work. When I spotted a bee, I instinctively commanded my mother to roll up the windows, because I was not trying to deal with this monstrosity of a creature in an enclosed car while I was strapped into my seat and had a giant pizza box in my lap.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well she didn\u2019t.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bee flew into the car and I screamed, frantically trying to unbuckle my seatbelt, get the pizza box off of my lap, and open the door, all at the same time while keeping my eye on this yellow hell bug. Unsuccessful, I\u00a0ended up with a pizza box on the back seat of\u00a0my mom\u2019s\u00a0car, a shoe left on the floor of the\u00a0passenger side, and me, crying in the\u00a0double-parked\u00a0(Insert sounds of car to fade in and\u00a0out)\u00a0\u00a0car\u00a0lane on the side of the street with people staring at me. Moral of this story, pizza is\u00a0great,\u00a0and bees are\u00a0my archenemy.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Rock guitar transition)<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I was 17, my mom and I were driving home from a movie late at night. It was dark, the radio was on, and the streetlamps where flickering. That\u2019s when I felt something thump against my leg. Immediately, I\u00a0flung my hand on to turn the little light in the front of the car on, which I was always told was not allowed for some reason. The light attracted whatever hit my leg, and from the place my legs where resting, a bee flew up, nearing the light. I panicked, begging my mom to pull over on the one-way street.\u00a0\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well she wouldn\u2019t.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hoisted my body up arching my\u00a0back,\u00a0so I was no longer touching the passenger seat, which was consequently the wrong decision, because I had a dress on. And there was no place for the bee to go. Asides from up my dress. Which was exactly what it did. And well that didn\u2019t go over well with me. So naturally, I did what I had to do, which was fling the car door open, unbuckle my seatbelt, and jump out of my mom\u2019s moving car.\u00a0(Insert cars honking and driving to fade out at end of segment)\u00a0Luckily,\u00a0she was making a turn and\u00a0wasn\u2019t going too fast, so I didn\u2019t die, which I guess is cool.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moral of this story, I guess I can cross \u201cjump out of a moving car\u201d off my bucket list, and bees are\u00a0literally out\u00a0to kill me.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Rock guitar transition)\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I\u00a0was 19, or this\u00a0year, I would do homework with my roommate outside on Deg Patio.\u00a0We would sit out there on warmer\u00a0days,\u00a0so the sun could bake our skin and talk about life issues instead of actually doing homework.\u00a0That was the first mistake.\u00a0For someone who hates all things that are bugs, I sure do put myself into positions that give bees leverage over me. When a bee landed on my notebook, I was already on my\u00a0feet\u00a0backing into the brick wall and telling those bees to back off.\u00a0I told them to leave me alone.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well they\u00a0didn\u2019t.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So once again, I did what I deemed necessary. I screamed, I panicked, I ran circles around my table, dodging\u00a0the\u00a0bee like I dodge my responsibilities, and drawing some much unwanted attention from students who probably thought I was crazy, or on drugs.\u00a0And at this point I\u2019m not really sure which was\u00a0worse.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0moral of all these stories is,\u00a0my name is\u00a0Sarah, and bees are assholes.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jazzy music intro)\u00a0\u00a0 When I was 4, a bee flew up my dress and stung my back a few times. 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