Mosquito

¡Que horrible! Anoche, cuando dormía tranquila, una mosquito venío en mi
habitacíon y pensaba "SWEET! ¡Comeré muy bien esta noche!" Entonces,
ahora, tengo choques sobre todo mi cuerpo. Uno en la mano, uno en mi
espalda, uno en mi pierna izquierda y tres en mi pierna derecha. shitty.
So I used my brother's trick and have applied roll on deoderant to the
affected areas (wow, this has got to sound hot to non-spanish readers)
and am trying so hard not to itch them.
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Tonight I go out with a hot girl (catch-she
walks like a man) from my class and some Polish folk. Last night, saw a
live band at El Savor that was only so-so, but i got to drink a pretty
good mojito! I want to go to latin america, dammit. It would save me so
much money anyway and there would be more prospects for salsa. I also
went to Medievo and had my picture taken about 3 times for the local
"Party Pictures" page around here (link NOT provided). Yesterday, I ate
paella and a bacon bocadillo. Today, so far, i have eaten potatoes with
vinegar and garlic with tomatoes and green bell peppers and croquetas.
ah shit. I think it's raining out here. WTF? I bet it's not even
raining in Seattle. This is good. I will finally be able to wear my
jacket. Blah blah blah. Bought Ronald a present today. I will have to
mail it to him in LA or Silicon Valley. :( Goodbye forever Ronald.
(He's moving and getting on with his life, which reminds me that i must
pay some bills today and call about my damn financial aid and the
thousands of dollars i owe the government for my education that does not
guarantee job security.)
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OH. Here's some Heather news. So today, in a valiant attempt to spice
up conversation class, we talked about the war and the armies of
different countries and how they all work. Then we talked about
Ensalada vs. Paella (Pluralism vs. Melting Pot) in the US. Some girl
asked me about Hawaii and said that she heard there's racism there
because WHITE PEOPLE ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. I said, "YEAH,
discriminated against, but it's not RACISM" Okay, so these are the
words i wanted to use. Power, Hegemony, Denial of Reproductive rights,
Control. blah blah. of course. This is my soul.

You know i coulda run my mouth off if it were English, so this was
probably a great exercise for me in choosing the correct words... i
don't think i did that well anyway so I'm gonna have to practice.

OKAY.

THEN we have a new classmate who is from the fucking East Coast who is
an older (late 20's early 30's) woman. OMG, She started running her
mouth off about how when she was a librarian she had to kick out the
Japanese students because they were working so hard, basically trying to
go off on the whole Model Minority stereotype. So I said, "Were they
Japanese people from Japan or Japanese Americans, cause there's a
difference. If you think that Asian Americans work harder it's because
most of our parents are immigrants and they TRY to make us work harder,
and by the way, international students work hard because they paid a
shitload." OMG, I couldn't even get to what i wanted to say because i
could have broken down the whole stereotype to mis-interpereted economic
data and interracial competition.

So anyway, what i said to her I think was not completely correct because
i could write a 20 pager on the topic if i wanted to, but man, I was
working on a fundamental level with this woman who, I think, was itching
to say the word "Oriental".

bah. a very heathermichellemarivillanueva moment for me today. I didn't
ACTUALLY get really worked up about it, because i have learned over the
years to freaking calm down and choose my battles, but this woman was so
misinformed i had to at least give her some BASIC explanations. It
really wasn't a fight or a deep discussion even. and explanations is
the wrong word. I had to at least bust a little bit of her whitey east
coast bubble maybe. how technical of me. whatever.

anyway, it sounds like it was really important to me, but it's not. It
was nice to get a little bit academic though since most of my
conversations are just ligando anyway. "hi, where you from, how old,
what are you doing here? how long are you staying?" OMG, it's like A/S/L
hahahha. ok. i nerd. blah! enough for today.