July 2011
26 posts
Microaggression moment of the day
The post office worker rudely tells me to make sure write my address in English, even though I have been conversing with him in English only up to this point.
Makes me uncomfortable that he assumes my native language isn’t English just because I am brown-skinned. Also makes me feel sorry for the non-native English speakers who have to deal with him.
Am I the only one who never tell if someone is flirting with you or just being friendly?
Cause lately this has been a problem.
I’m just assume they’re being friendly…basically because I’m in the ‘who the hell would flirt with me’ state of mind these days.
Last time I thought a guy was flirting with me it turned out he was just really Christian. (I should have known - after all, he was working in the Divinity School library.)
Good News: We closed on our new house!
Bad News: We spent the whole day taping and painting, and will probably keep doing so for the next week.
Good News: I got an adorable dress from Bodyline and the bf even likes it.
Bad News: He thought the macarons in the print were cheeseburgers.
I hate skinny jeans and can't wait until they die.
blackmagpieaintnothintofuckwith:
But I am an Old.
Sorry kiddos. My fat ass does not do skinny anything.
Skinny and straight jeans are actually more flattering on my fat ass. This is probably also because I am short, and the 500 extra yards of fabric that come with bootcuts and flares do nothing for me.
The Bf is currently watching a youtube video entitled "Good Burger Funny Moments"
I think he now has to agree that it’s funnier than you would think, and stop shaming me over the fact that I saw it in theaters when it came out.
Kel was always my favorite.
Google + should have a circle for people who were your SO’s friends in college but whom you both now totally hate and don’t want to interact with but feel pressured to add because you have way to many friends in common.
Stuff I bought
All of this was ridiculously cheap. Of course, I’m sure the quality won’t be great, and the shipping is kind of outrageous, but … the cuteness! I can’t handle it.
Just discovered Rakuten
Why can’t I just buy all of my clothes there?
Oh, right … I’m not even sure I’d fit any of them in the first place.
(ordered a cheap 3L shirt just to see.)
Abort Mission
So, being the not-true HP fans we are (we’ve just seen the movies and I’ve read a couple of the books) the bf and I decided on a whim to go to the midnight showing. “Why not?” we thought, “there are tickets available and it’s at that shit theater near our house that’s always so empty.” We bought some tickets online, to pick up at will call, and decided to leave at 11:30, just to be safe.
Oh My Spaghetti Monster NO.
We roll up at 11:40, and there is a 5 person wide and 200 foot long line out into the parking lot. Not only that but there is not a single parking space to be found in the whole shopping center, which contains many other stores, including a whole Harris Teeter.
After driving around hopelessly for five minutes I tell the bf I’ll pay for the tickets if he’ll just drive us home.
And that’s how I wimped out from going to the midnight showing of DH II. Crowd anxiety.
My most delicious vegetable-free day
3 cheerwine stuffed krispy kremes
2 pieces of toast slathered in butter
a giant bowl of homemade cheese vareniki
mmmm …
nothing like a hard workout followed by a cheerwine filled krispy kreme
Mmmm. Dinner.
Sweet and Sour Tofu with Peppers and Broccoli.
Play
Bleh.
Got back from visiting my parents in Cinci at 3pm this afternoon after a horrible crying-baby-tiny-commuter-plane flight. Came home to an apartment with no power due to power line repairs. First they said it would be back on by 8. Then 10.
The power just came on 5 minutes ago.
Just saw Big Freedia in Cinci! Fucking awesome show.
What Your Favorite ’80s Band Says About You. (Go there. Read this now.) →
mcsweeneys.net
Seriously. Read this.
REM: You minored in something. (s’true, insofar as one can do that here)
Michael Jackson: You have exploded a beanbag chair by landing on it.
Siouxie and the Banshees: You can tell the difference between Manic Panic Purple Haze and Ultra Violet.
(This one isn’t on the list, but it should be.)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It’s between Siouxsie (thanks mom!)
Bauhaus: You know what LARPing is.
and
Joan Jett: You have woken up on top of your high school gym teacher.
… no comment
Cyndi Lauper: You have lost several silk scarves to escalators.
Hmmm. Nah. I do like colourful clothing, but that’s a stretch …
New Order: You own several fish tanks but no fish.
No, but that does sound appealing.
“I think reasonable men will be quite capable of both opposing Islamic fundamentalism with vigor and refraining from driving away their godless colleagues with petty harrassment, colleagues who may well be even more fervent and dedicated to our common cause of promoting equality all around the world. These are not mutually contradictory actions. They are complementary and necessary. Our goal isn’t to set the bar of equality at a level slightly higher than the situation in Saudi Arabia, or to some point somewhere around the significantly more enlightened (but still not adequate) level in America, but at a point where every woman has the same rights and privileges as every man, where women don’t have to fear being raped, and yes, where women don’t have to face this dismaying, depressing, common situation of seeing their autonomy disrespected and their compatriots rushing to excuse loutish behavior.”
—P.Z. Myers (read the whole post here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/oh_no_not_againonce_more_unto.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28Pharyngula%29 )
Grr … Apparently the tumblr bb app is not compatible with my model. I can post but nothing else. Pity me! I am so bored to death right now.
“Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens and let them vote. Are they property? Why then is no other property included? The houses in [Philadelphia] are worth more than all the wretched slaves that cover the rice swamps of South Carolina….The admission of slaves into the representation when fairly explained comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages, shall have more votes in a government instituted for the protection of the rights of mankind than the citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with laudable horror so nefarious a practice.”
—Gouverneur Morris, on the 3/5ths compromise
Fudgy Wudgy Raspberry Brownies
are in my oven right now. The recipe is from Veganomicon, however, I replaced the original blueberries with raspberries. The batter tastes amazzzzzing. I almost never cook (intentionally) vegan any more, but if these turn out as well as I think they will I am going to have to explore that cookbook a bit more.
It is going to be really hard to not eat them before they are delivered to the intended recipient.
Caitastrophe (formerly STFU Jezzies): OHMYGOD. This same (white) mom on Toddlers & Tiaras just said that she was worried about what having a mixed baby would... →
caitastrophejane.tumblr.com
kdek:
so when she was pregnant she would rub her belly and say, “Please have good hair. Please have good hair. Please have good hair.”
WTF YOU RACIST F’ING PIECE OF SHIT MOM.
Anyone worried about a mixed-race baby has obviously never seen Tim’s baby pictures because he was adorabuhls!!
…
This is not something against you (I know this was in jest) but this is something that I think about a lot and that annoys me as a mixed race person:
Not all mixed race people are beautiful. Or ugly. They are just like everyone else - unique, diverse, etc.
Whenever someone says “oh, such-and-such race/mixed race people are so beautiful” it drives me nuts, because that is some exoticizing bullshit.
