Screw it, I'm locking myself in my room until the 13th..
I have had one of the strangest week's that I've had in a while and I'm kind of afraid of anything worse happening.. like getting crushed by a plane that only crashes on me..
1.) Found out that a friend got kicked out of my sorority and got married in reno to a guy she's been dating for a couple weeks..
2.) So if you don't know, I was once accosted by this old guy (60+) when I was walking Max one day and the guy comes up to me and asks me if my name is "Corretta." I tell him that my name is not Corretta and try to keep walking, but he continues to try to talk to me. In NY i could have said "fuck off" and been fine. But somehow in california its rude not to talk to strangers.. whatevs. Highlights from the brief convo aree that I told him my name was Lucy. And that I was not a model and NO he could NOT take pictures of me.
That was about two months ago. Then on Monday he pulls up to me in a large blue SUV (just in case I get abducteed, you guys know what to tell the cops) and yells out "Hey Lucy!" He remembered my name - fake or otherwise! Creepy! I said hello and swiftly walked away as he called out to me not to leave.
3.) On the same day, I had a shitty job interview, granted I didnt want the job, but I didnt have to make myself look like an idiot! I got rejected from a job I didnt even remember applying for. My friend got an active recruitment call from Harvard, and another got into USC med school. Congrats to them, but I could have done without a few things on a day that "God" was clearly telling me how inadquate I am as a person. And just as I was finally feeling OK about everything, my dog chews through my power cord! I couldnt finish a job project that I was assigned and had to order a replacement! Just for future reference, laptop computer cords are about 100 bucks.. yeah thanks max! Luckily I had the great idea of admitting this to my boss and she is allowing me to charge it to the company! Chaching!
4.) On the same day, while I was at safeway this woman approaches me about taking pictures of me for some collage she wants to make of beautiful dark-skinned black woman for some neewspaper she writes for. I felt somewhat flattered and somewhat weirded out.
5.) I'm sure that there are other things I have forgotten. But all I know is I'm staying SOBER this weekend b/c I'd rather not have to add a legitimate #5, well unless its something REALLY good and not REALLY bad..
1.) Found out that a friend got kicked out of my sorority and got married in reno to a guy she's been dating for a couple weeks..
2.) So if you don't know, I was once accosted by this old guy (60+) when I was walking Max one day and the guy comes up to me and asks me if my name is "Corretta." I tell him that my name is not Corretta and try to keep walking, but he continues to try to talk to me. In NY i could have said "fuck off" and been fine. But somehow in california its rude not to talk to strangers.. whatevs. Highlights from the brief convo aree that I told him my name was Lucy. And that I was not a model and NO he could NOT take pictures of me.
That was about two months ago. Then on Monday he pulls up to me in a large blue SUV (just in case I get abducteed, you guys know what to tell the cops) and yells out "Hey Lucy!" He remembered my name - fake or otherwise! Creepy! I said hello and swiftly walked away as he called out to me not to leave.
3.) On the same day, I had a shitty job interview, granted I didnt want the job, but I didnt have to make myself look like an idiot! I got rejected from a job I didnt even remember applying for. My friend got an active recruitment call from Harvard, and another got into USC med school. Congrats to them, but I could have done without a few things on a day that "God" was clearly telling me how inadquate I am as a person. And just as I was finally feeling OK about everything, my dog chews through my power cord! I couldnt finish a job project that I was assigned and had to order a replacement! Just for future reference, laptop computer cords are about 100 bucks.. yeah thanks max! Luckily I had the great idea of admitting this to my boss and she is allowing me to charge it to the company! Chaching!
4.) On the same day, while I was at safeway this woman approaches me about taking pictures of me for some collage she wants to make of beautiful dark-skinned black woman for some neewspaper she writes for. I felt somewhat flattered and somewhat weirded out.
5.) I'm sure that there are other things I have forgotten. But all I know is I'm staying SOBER this weekend b/c I'd rather not have to add a legitimate #5, well unless its something REALLY good and not REALLY bad..
posted by GyangBang | 11:08 AM
8 Comments:
Sober? At the Mardi Gras party???? Are you INsane??
You don't need to be so drunk you're not sure if your boobs are showing or not, but I think imbibing this weekend is a healthy dose of not-thinking-about-stupid-jobs-you-don't-want-anyway-comma-not-being-approached-by-photographers-porn-or-otherwise-comma-and-not-worrying-about-max-eating-expensive-crap. At least for a couple hours
Oh my - you and Rex then have just provided me the cardinal inquiry I must have answered before allowing myself to become sexually attracted to a girl from now on: So, what is your relationship with your parents like? :-D Sigh - I feel so alone.
So maybe "God" is telling you to go into modelling with all these folks wanting pics of you! :-) Don't tell Mars that though, or she'll want to pep talk you about becoming deathly thin (which is something potential models should probably hear, lest they start living on 2 cal per day!)
I absolutely object to your calling me smart. I am not. A little absent minded and insane these days, yes...but not smart! I'm not even bilingual for Christ's sake! :-p
I think marriages after a few weeks of dating will help reduce the 50% divorce rate in the country, don't you?
Stay sober this weekend Lucy! :-)
~ Jon
PS You know, I've heard that Asian parents do the same with boys. I read in some culture book somewhere that they're raised to think they're the sh_t whether they are or not. One can't expect this to be too far from the truth, considering the broader cultural heritage of Confucianism. I think my mom expected me to fail in life, to turn out like my father. That may be where a lot of my issues come from. But ya know, I'd much rather know exactly who I am after looking through a clear lens my whole life than have someone prop me up and pretend I'm something I'm not. I bet I could beat up those Jewish boys you were talking about (I have nothing against Jews, but I do despise arrogance!)
The strongest steel is tempered in the hottest fires!!!
Hmm Jon, I don't know about this culture book that says Asian parents raise their boys to think they're the shit. I guess I wouldn't know because I'm not male, and I'm not actually living in Asia , but a lot of Asian males I know are under a ton of parental pressure to succeed, and if they can't meet their parents' great expectations, they end up the opposite of arrogant. Sometimes they are cocky anyway, but it's not necessarily the parents' doing.
LC, don't worry about the job. They will regret not having hired you, but then it will be too late because you will have moved on to better things. Jon believes in the death penalty, and if you really feel it necessary, we will "take care" of the HR people responsible. Muahaha.
Jon, what are you talking about?
Mars, elaborate. If you are wondering what I meant by the parent question, see the previous post and accompanying comments. If you are wondering about the model thing, you had lots of pics on your wall making fun of models for being so skinny. If you are talking about the smart comment, all I can say is this: the vast majority of people I know have gone to med school or grad school or have found marital bliss or have gotten full time work somewhere and seem to be on track in life - I still feel derailed, so it's hard to feel smart. If you are wondering about the marriage comment, well, we can all laugh at people being against gay marriage when most straight marriages don't last, right?
OK, as for the comment about Asian boys, I hope I didn't offend. It could be that I'm jealous of other people's family lives. People tell me about the pressure their parents put on them, but then they turn around and talk about how much love they have been given (including some people we all know - ahem). So sometimes I feel like the "I'm under pressure" stuff is a farce to get sympathy. Looking back at my life, I think I still would have chosen to be propped up and pushed along - even under pressure - than left out to dry. Now, putting aside personal issues, I really did read that in a published book. And I didn't disagree with it because most people I've met in the past couple of years (present co excluded of course) are very assertive, self-involved, and, well, "propped up." So I wasn't even saying Asian girls aren't treated like this, nor was I saying other races don't do the same. Every culture has its niches where parents support their kids to excess, which I think makes for shallow empty overachievers. I brought up Asians because that is one case I specifically read about.
PT, you distract the HR folks, and I will sneak up behind them and "help them to bed." ;-) Or I can have my uncle Vinny take care of the whole thing. ;-) ;-)
~ Jon
You know what they say, the essence of (good) literature is suffering. I'm sorry everything is pissing you off right now, but at least it's interesting and respectable. If you got into Harvard med school this week, believe me, your literature would SUCK!
FYI, I agree with Marissa that you should have fun this weekend.
I forgot about the model thing, so that's what I meant.
All parents are different - yes there are cultural trends, but things are changing all the time. I guess all you can do is learn from and base goals on what your parents did.
To suffer is human, to reflect, educated... or something.
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