Friday, March 28, 2003
Thursday, March 27, 2003
just had the weirdest strangest coolest spiffiest experience, and so i just have to share....
it's a beyootiful day outside, very springy with a nice breeze...so i'm at the grocery store, wandering around while they fill my Rx, and i see it - a KITE!!!!! it's perfect kite weather!!!
so i got the kite and then proceeded to head over to the first wide open space i can think of - the elementary school near my house - 5 o'clock, all the kids will be long gone...well, i was wrong about that one, there must be an after school program or something...
then it seems strange - what are these people gonna think of a 30 year old butch dyke out by herself flying a kite near some children? will they instantly think "CHILD MOLESTER" and call the cops? of course, if i go over to the supervising adults and say "hey, just so you know, i'm not a child molester" they'll instantly think that i AM. so i just stayed away from the kids. the kids, however, could not stay away from me. or the kite, rather. soon i'm surrounded by 4 kids. so i just let them hang out, but don't ask names or anything that might make it seem like i've got any sort of intentions other than to fly my kite...
one boy 8 or 9 years old (didn't get his name), immediately asks to fly the kite and i tell him we'll take turns...he asks me "are you a boy?" and i tell him no...he asks me "are you a girl?" and i tell him yes...then he says "i'm sorry i called you a boy, it's just hard to tell." and i told him it was okay, i know sometimes it's hard to tell - he was very polite about it, so i didn't get pissed or anything, and i WAS pretty butched up today...so he takes a turn at flying the kite and then his dad shows up and he leaves...
then one of the girls proceeds to tell Kevin (another boy, probably 7 or 8) that what i have is called a kite - he doesn't know what that is, she tells me, because he's from China (mom had a good point when i told her this - "i thought that's where they came from!") so he's never seen one before, and doesn't even know the word for it. so we all take turns flying the kite, or throwing it in the air for someone else to fly.
of course, as soon as we go to actually fly the kite, the wind dies down, or we get short bursts of wind. the kids, however, were way impressed with getting it to fly 10 feet in the air - you'd have thought the thing was 10 miles up in the air!!! their giggles and laughs will beat a prescription for zoloft ANY day!!
in the midst of flying, i get introductions - i've met kevin, and with him are brianna and brittany - brittany even offers a handshake with her introduction!! these kids crack me up! it's brittany's birthday, she's 8 years old today. i think brianna's 9 or 10, but she didn't offer that information. it's obvious the two B girls are best friends.
brianna starts chatting with me, and tells me "i think i'm a tomboy or a tomgirl or whatever you call it - i like everything." ROFL!!! am i wearing something that is telling these kids, "hey, come talk to me about your gender identity issues!!!"??? first, the polite kid that can't tell if i'm a boy or a girl APOLOGIZING for presuming i was a boy, then brianna tells me this stuff, totally unprovoked...
it was really cool, but overshadowed a bit by the fact that i had to stop and consider the fact that people might think i had bad intentions - it's so sad that in this day and age kids have to be fearful of strangers - that everyone has to be fearful of everyone, actually. people really suck sometimes, but hanging with those kids for a while today gives me hope for the future...
it's a beyootiful day outside, very springy with a nice breeze...so i'm at the grocery store, wandering around while they fill my Rx, and i see it - a KITE!!!!! it's perfect kite weather!!!
so i got the kite and then proceeded to head over to the first wide open space i can think of - the elementary school near my house - 5 o'clock, all the kids will be long gone...well, i was wrong about that one, there must be an after school program or something...
then it seems strange - what are these people gonna think of a 30 year old butch dyke out by herself flying a kite near some children? will they instantly think "CHILD MOLESTER" and call the cops? of course, if i go over to the supervising adults and say "hey, just so you know, i'm not a child molester" they'll instantly think that i AM. so i just stayed away from the kids. the kids, however, could not stay away from me. or the kite, rather. soon i'm surrounded by 4 kids. so i just let them hang out, but don't ask names or anything that might make it seem like i've got any sort of intentions other than to fly my kite...
one boy 8 or 9 years old (didn't get his name), immediately asks to fly the kite and i tell him we'll take turns...he asks me "are you a boy?" and i tell him no...he asks me "are you a girl?" and i tell him yes...then he says "i'm sorry i called you a boy, it's just hard to tell." and i told him it was okay, i know sometimes it's hard to tell - he was very polite about it, so i didn't get pissed or anything, and i WAS pretty butched up today...so he takes a turn at flying the kite and then his dad shows up and he leaves...
then one of the girls proceeds to tell Kevin (another boy, probably 7 or 8) that what i have is called a kite - he doesn't know what that is, she tells me, because he's from China (mom had a good point when i told her this - "i thought that's where they came from!") so he's never seen one before, and doesn't even know the word for it. so we all take turns flying the kite, or throwing it in the air for someone else to fly.
of course, as soon as we go to actually fly the kite, the wind dies down, or we get short bursts of wind. the kids, however, were way impressed with getting it to fly 10 feet in the air - you'd have thought the thing was 10 miles up in the air!!! their giggles and laughs will beat a prescription for zoloft ANY day!!
in the midst of flying, i get introductions - i've met kevin, and with him are brianna and brittany - brittany even offers a handshake with her introduction!! these kids crack me up! it's brittany's birthday, she's 8 years old today. i think brianna's 9 or 10, but she didn't offer that information. it's obvious the two B girls are best friends.
brianna starts chatting with me, and tells me "i think i'm a tomboy or a tomgirl or whatever you call it - i like everything." ROFL!!! am i wearing something that is telling these kids, "hey, come talk to me about your gender identity issues!!!"??? first, the polite kid that can't tell if i'm a boy or a girl APOLOGIZING for presuming i was a boy, then brianna tells me this stuff, totally unprovoked...
it was really cool, but overshadowed a bit by the fact that i had to stop and consider the fact that people might think i had bad intentions - it's so sad that in this day and age kids have to be fearful of strangers - that everyone has to be fearful of everyone, actually. people really suck sometimes, but hanging with those kids for a while today gives me hope for the future...
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
they're still investigating the guy set on fire thang - Channel 6 has a more up to date story than the star...i'm thinking it's one of 2 things - an out & out hate crime cuz the guy's middle eastern (from afghanistan, actually) or he's made the story up to garner sympathy - sounds crazy, i know, but there are fucked up people out there that do shit like that...i'm leaning towards the hate crime theory right now tho...
this one from totalfark made me laugh - Cup holders, anyone? Yet another reason to ditch Internet Explorer
uh oh...."Man in critical condition after restaurant fire"...this fire seems awfully suspicious...the Eastern Kitchen Buffet hasn't been open too long, it's in the strip mall on emerson across from the supertarget - did some evil bastard decide a guy named Abdullah Naderi working at the Eastern Kitchen Buffet wasn't american enough and try to torch the place...the star says the story will be updated...i don't have a good feeling about this, seems like a hate crime...
people suck.
people suck.
surely inspired by Letterman's regular segment, "Dr. Phil's words of wisdom" - now you can go to the Dr. Phil Random Quote Generator! get wonderful inspirations such as: "You don't need to work out to take a big swim in Lake Jackass."
Monday, March 24, 2003
Despot or Sexpot? cute, tho i don't think many ppl would consider Ron Jeremy a "sexpot"
i scored 13 outta 16...
i scored 13 outta 16...
there's a thread currently on fark about this article, linking temporal lobe epilepsy and holy visions...pretty interesting article...
Sunday, March 23, 2003
The Propaganda Remix Project is cool...they've also got a shop at cafeshops to sell stuff - check it out!!
my lungs still aren't happy with me - it just slowly builds up, then all of the sudden i'm winded...you can hear it in my voice too - i think i'm talking fine and dandy, yet it comes out as a whisper. keeping up with the Voldyne 5000 and using the inhaler, but i suspect i'll need another trip to the doc next week if things don't start getting a lot better soon...
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