I wish I had a CSA- it is too hard for me to pick one up and take it on the bus, plus most of the CSA's here want you to go work on the farm, which is also hard without a car.

I am really annoyed, but it is clear she thinks she is just being nice. And she is stuck in a car with someone, who, to her, smells awful. I have also heard her on the phone with her (mentally challenged) brother and she is always telling him to shower and put on deodorant because he smells.

Right?? It's not like Sophia is wearing Crap Powder -- it's a smell people like!

Word. And even if someone dislikes that particular smell, its a "clean" smell for heaven's sake -- it doesn't smell like pits or socks or the like.

Sorry hurty msbelle dad.

I continue to be taken aback at that woman. Having a sensitivity to smells is something I'm way familiar with, but there's a clear distinction between saying someone smells bad and someone's wearing a smell you don't like.

Oh, and much no-pain~ma for msbelle's dad.

The thing is I am also sensitive to smells. I can't deal with "scented" products, but things like Gold Bond I can do because it isn't an artificial smell, it is just what the thing smells like. But I also like the smell of Ben-Gay (in fact putting Ben-gay on my face gets rid of headsches for me)

Yeah, her self-regard and tastlessness are pretty extraordinary.

I had a student tutor one who I had to talk with about his actual hygiene issues: not only did my office have a lingering fug whenever he was in it, the front office staff complained about it, and his tutees complained discreetly about it.

I struggled with a while on how to put it. But it was am impressively strong fug of BO stank; I had to do it.

It's grey here today -- we're supposed to have thunderstorms most the day. Fine by me; my day looks like edits, writing, more writing.

I think that in the first half of the 20th century and earlier - Iranians and Iraqis would have been considered Asian and I'm not sure that Arabians wouldn't also have been considered Asian -- and by "Asian" I mean "Oriental" - which, I suppose is a more generic term than "Asian".

My Friend's Sicilian grandparents referred to me and an Irish friend as the white friends, but then, they were also convinced for a while that I was Jewish and therefore possibly not white. Being white to them had much more to do with where people could buy housing in NYC in the 40s and 50s.

but there's a clear distinction between saying someone smells bad and someone's wearing a smell you don't like.

THIS, a thousand times.

Iranians and Iraqis would have been considered Asian and I'm not sure that Arabians wouldn't also have been considered Asian

Persians (Iranians) are Caucasian, Iraqis are Arab, so probably "Oriental," I guess.

Heh. My friend teaches - god, for 12 years now -- at a alternative school in KC. It's a last chance school. There's mostly black and Hispanic students.

Fran has a fun personality; she dances and sings, she's an art teacher. I know what she's like with the kids.

She told me this anecdote:

Kid 1: Miss Francie, you crazy! You don't act white!

Kid 2 (witheringly): That's cause she ain't white; she's Italian!