Be gentle with me, but would a reasonable possible subtext of "I don't see race when I look at you" be "You're not like the other black people"?
Yep.
That could be viewed as that person thinking that's a compliment. In which case, eww.
Also yes.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 01, 2012 5:49:05 pm PDT #20652 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2012 5:52:24 pm PDT #20653 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel like such a dope for never even considering that until reasonably recently, The idea of being the "good" darkie is just...yeah.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:53:59 pm PDT #20654 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sorry.
Lee - Sep 01, 2012 6:33:20 pm PDT #20655 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I need a new work tote bag/oversize purse/messenger bag I can take to work.
What do people think of these Option 1: [link]
Option 2: [link]
Option 3: [link]
Option 4: [link]
aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 6:35:50 pm PDT #20656 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
My neighborhood is overflowing with drunk college students tonight. And very loud fireworks. And a large moving truck which showed up at 10pm. I'm used to a certain amount of noise but this is ridiculous.
Kat - Sep 01, 2012 6:37:21 pm PDT #20657 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Lee, I love number 3, but does it really fill your needs? Number 1 looks most like what you have described.
aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 6:38:56 pm PDT #20658 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
What do you need to carry? A couple of those are too small for a laptop.
JZ - Sep 01, 2012 6:39:18 pm PDT #20659 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Unsurprisingly, I love #2, what with the black and the large mysterious key, but #s 3 and 4 look more Lee-ish.
So now you've got one vote for each of them. We're amazingly unhelpful!
Lee - Sep 01, 2012 6:40:39 pm PDT #20660 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
No laptop--just an ipad (or sometimes 2), plus the wallet, keys, phone etc.
Number 3 might be too small, but I do love it.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2012 6:41:45 pm PDT #20661 of 30001
I came within milliseconds of bailing on the night and am now glad I didn't.
Husband does improv locally and is also a green restoration contractor type. The house is so funky and wonderful. Several other single women (he kept saying "I invited my boys for you guys but none could make it. But it is my birthday, so this is AWESOME") he knows from improv, but of all sort of different backgrounds.
Massage therapist (who counts several Ravens among her cliental. She wants them to win because if they lose= more training, less downtime, she doesn't get appointments,) pysch intake person, my friend the CTY person, etc. Huh, I never got what the wife does and I spent a long time talking with her. Many varied and interesting conversations. And their needy cat glommed on to two of us and basically spent the whole time between us, getting pets until she passed out in overload.
And cocktails, which are my friend K's thing. She literally brought over a box of booze and simple syrups she'd made. My favorite cocktail was one that involved bourbon and gin (unsurprising that, but I'd never thought to mix them!) bitters, ginger and lime. Whoa. Suffering Bastard or something like that.