Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[superaielman]

Struck out on the job with the city. *mutter* I did get to the interview stage, so it's a step in the right direction.

[Idun]

I have rekindled my love for games through Symphony of the Night.

I share too much information.

I was literally stunned when a customer would not let me pull a Muscle Milk out of their really muscly, nice warm hand until they said: "C'mon Hoolia, jhou hahv tuu pull dat thing hahrdur." He was La-ti-no. I should have threw up in my mouth, when I just giggled at his typical male crassness.

When a black man told me "I'm doing good," and that "I'm an unusual black female," because "all other black females are getting pregnant and not going to college," I pedantically told him he's short-sighted, biased and I'm uninterested in further conversation. I actually feel like writing something on this - I've been told this from EVERYONE I know. Especially white people, which makes it more acceptable, 'cause they're white and shit. But it's fucking annoying the perception that people have about black women and I'm over it. I get my nails, my hair, my toes did and I fucking watch BET, love Tyler Perry and shit. I drop it like it's hot. I have a pair of Apple Bottoms (though I'm told I'm much more of a pancake bottom, a hur hur). I didn't choose to go to school, I just went. Etc.

I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.

[Lady Door]

Let's see, three people in a row post about bad things? Must be time for my days to turn good again!

(I don't know what it is, but when other people seem to have bad days, mine turn good. It's terrible. And really funny. Well, to me, anyway.)

NaNoWriMo write-a-thon, Night of Writing Dangerously, was last night. I ROCKED SO HARD. I wrote about 13k words over the course of the night, including ~1600 in 15 minutes, which won me a word sprint and some nifty swag. My writing total put me about 1-2 days AHEAD, way up from being almost a week behind. Andrew also won a raffle for some local events and things, so we now have tickets to two different playhouses and some passes to the Berkeley Art Museum. Plus they gave us free food, and we got author photos (will show you later, when I get them, if I like them).

The dog training session went fabulously well, too, so I am especially pleased that yesterday rocked so much.

Plus I got a haircut on Saturday (it's fairly short and very dark brown now). And there was an AWESOME thunderstorm, complete with lightning and thunder which NEVER happens up here, also on Saturday. Plus we played games with friends for a short while unexpectedly.

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I am sorry to hear about your less awesome days DJ, Yoshi, super and Idun.

[Yoshiken]

because "all other black females are getting pregnant and not going to college,"
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I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.

First quoted part sounds like pretty much any female where I live. I'm genuinely surprised to find intelligent conversation, so I can't fault the guy for being surprised. Me thinking that, though, is just my general lack of faith in society as a whole, no specific race/gender, etc. I'm used to almost everyone I know either giving up as early as possible or lying their way through things.

Which is why I quoted the second part. Welcome aboard, Idun. People suck, for the most part; it's just a case of making the most of the few people who don't and... well, trying to ignore everyone else. >.>

[Cmdr_King]

I wish I could remember where I saw the charts, but I could swear that broken down by demographics, the "black girls just get pregnant instead of having a life" is not all that true any more.  It was something to the effect that black women were averaging 2.1 children a piece to about 1.7 a piece for white women (the article as a whole was pointing out that only the hispanic population, at 2.7 children or something, was saving the US from being below population replacement on the whole).  These aren't real numbers, just approximations from something I read months ago, but still.

Although I wonder if somewhat negative population growth wouldn't be a good thing.  I certainly wouldn't want more than one child in the (increasingly unlikely) event I had any.

[NotMiki]

I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.

Aww Idun, we know you're not the personification of reflexive reaction to racial stereotyping.  If you were, Clarence Thomas would be out a job.

Seriously, it's tough to know what to be more offended by: people's assumptions about what the black female profile is, or their assumptions that your life is some kind of deliberate reaction to the stereotypes.

All that said, CK: pretty sure it's still true that black women with kids are disproportionately single, though.  Read an article referencing a study about that in the Washington Post a few weeks back.  May just have been referring to the DC area, though.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

because "all other black females are getting pregnant and not going to college,"
[...]
I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.

First quoted part sounds like pretty much any female where I live. I'm genuinely surprised to find intelligent conversation, so I can't fault the guy for being surprised. Me thinking that, though, is just my general lack of faith in society as a whole, no specific race/gender, etc. I'm used to almost everyone I know either giving up as early as possible or lying their way through things.

Which is why I quoted the second part. Welcome aboard, Idun. People suck, for the most part; it's just a case of making the most of the few people who don't and... well, trying to ignore everyone else. >.>

I lived in Utah for a while. Highest percent of women entering college in the country, lowest graduation percent for women in the country. I would say something about overlap, but the Mormon church doesn't allow non-white people anyway.

[Luther Lansfeld]

I gotta say a lot of the girls where I lived fit into the "get preggers during or right out of high school thing" and it seems like it happens across races to me!

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Near-misses are fun too.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Also, it snowed here on Friday. This isn't the Vancouver I bargained for!! (I think it's already snowed more than it did all of last year.) I did not want to get out of bed but I eventually did, I didn't have anything to do at work but I felt obligated to go even if no one would care if I didn't. >_>

[Shale]

Man, awesome weekend. Lazy Saturday, awesome seats at TSO's Philly concert, more laziness on Sunday morning, steak for lunch, massage, watch the Scott Pilgrim blu-ray.

I have this nagging fear that I'm going to be hit by a car to make up for it.

[Grefter]

If you find yourself hating humanity for something as minor as being stupid with stereotypes then you need to read some Vonnegut and remember that humans are dumb as shit and that they are totally awesome.

[NotMiki]

Right, about the last 2 weeks...the DL site was shut down, forcing its members underground until they could cope with a pitiless and needlessly bureaucratic evil, able to communicate only through little-known alternative channels.  Consider it our very own reenactment of the first half of HP7.

Let me know if you have any word of super.  I heard they got him after posted about the server using its true name.  That's how they've been finding us!

[Fudozukushi]

And here I thought is was closed in drunken depression.

[NotMiki]

Nah, that's just Zenny.

[DomaDragoon]

* DomaDragoon spanks OK with a baneling and shoves a goat up...

Ahh, it's good to be away from GameFAQs' ToS, heh? >_>

Anyway, went grocery shopping yesterday and got a bunch of drinks (cola, vegetable juice, gravy), and it hit me as I was going out - I need to go Christmas shopping soon. Boo.

[Dunefar]

Yay, forums are back.

[Hunter Sopko]

So my history prof managed to make me break out into a madman's insane laughter today.

Apparantly I don't need to take my history final.

This would be good news! Still is!

Only he waited until the very last day to cover what will be on the final (which is an in-class essay. My last one ended up being 9 pages), so I ended up taking 8 pages or so of notes. He waited until the end of class to tell us the final would be optional. We got held up a while past the end of class getting all the notes before he told us. Which was bad since I had a final I needed to take right away in the class immediately following this one, so paying actual attention and getting stuff pushed out of mind + no time to review directly before my other final, then finding out I don't even NEED to take the history one = Soppy breaks down laughing like a madman.

I musta studied better than I thought though. Did just fine on the final. Just got antsy then all the tension broke in hilarious, insane laughter.

[Idun]

If you find yourself hating humanity for something as minor as being stupid with stereotypes then you need to read some Vonnegut and remember that humans are dumb as shit and that they are totally awesome.

That's the thing. It's not minor. You may think it is, but growing up with shit like this constantly in my face made it a major issue to me. Compound this with other racial issues and I just get so tired. To hear shit like that from men of the same race makes me wonder where any progress was made besides in words in laws and economical figures.

[Grefter]

They are very important places to have those victories.  Remember, we are still in a life time where these laws were made.  There is progress, but we aren't looking at 2 or 3 generations after no one who saw these laws be made is left alive, let alone still in power.  Change is cool like that, people pay it lip service and write some garbage rhetoric that no one really pays attention to and in 50 years it is all the youth have ever known and they are confounded that people don't comprehend.  20 more years and duuuude your grandparents sometimes say some crazy things and another 10 or 20  and suddenly you are a really horrible bad dude for having treated corpses with such disdain in the past.

It is just people being people.  They will stop one day, everyone does. Then if they are lucky there is still someone to mourn them.

[superaielman]

All that said, CK: pretty sure it's still true that black women with kids are disproportionately single, though.  Read an article referencing a study about that in the Washington Post a few weeks back.  May just have been referring to the DC area, though.

This is true, at least the wedlock rate for black children. It's a pretty endemic social problem.   

[Lady Door]

And almost immediately after my post crowing about a good day, I eat crow.

Shit fell down hard after that post. It is right now hovering in uncertainty over a pit of despair.

I am being mildly dramatic, but only mildly. Depending on what happens in the next week or so, I'm going to have to make some hard choices about my dog, my job, and my apartment. Regardless, it is going to cost a -lot- of money. It has already cost a fair chunk.

So >_<

But at least that's all par for the course.

ETA:

On the bright side: I won NaNo, and I won the overall word count for the write-a-thon which earns me a personalized viking helmet. Also going down to LA this weekend to play card games. And... um... I still have my health...?

[Captain K.]

And... um... I still have my health...?

I dunno.  You look like Death! *rimshot*

[NotMiki]

*rimshot*

Haven't you, like, died of old age yet, Cap?

[Cotigo]

Nah, that's just Zenny.

Hey-o.

So, let's pretend I bitched about my job and rambled for the past francisfordcouplaweeks.  Boom DL was never down.

Also, that sucks, LD.  At least... um.  At least nobody's really that surprised?

That's a shitty consolation.  But it's a consolation, right?  Sorry.  I tried.