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I've succumbed and signed up for Netflix, and my rental list reads like the list of everyone else's obsessions I've never gotten around to (which is to say: Black Hawk Down, Amelie, Lost in Translation, and television series from England (read: Horatio Hornblower) ... oh hey... maybe they have MI-5.... oooo, they do, only season 1 though).

So, sorry if I was a bit overly literary about the craptastic nature of my day. I still don't know what the story is about the Counsellor thing, and I'd like to, just so I can assimilate, do anything that might make sense, and move on.

That said, I am really stuck on the way I put this, this notion that people presume all these things about what I think of them, because I put my hands on my hips, because that's where they fit... it's so interesting really. I spent the rest of the day trying not to do it, almost fearfully... very strange, and maybe there's something interesting to write in all that.

Other small accomplishment of the day... cleaned off my desktop... now if I can just purge all the crap in my bookmarks....

Really bummed I have to wait until Sunday to ride again, although this is probably good -- today I couldn't cross my legs without manually moving them into place. I have _really_ _really_ tight tendons by nature (an issue of much medical consternation when I danced), and I'd forgotten how they react to my stretching them out at all. Yuck.

Can I just tell you how much I hate being hassled about being Jewish (which I am, but it's like one thing on a long list)? Aside from iew racist bullshit, creepy.... this whole "looking Jewish" thing is shit. Hello, idiots, there are Jews in Ethiopia. There are Jews in this world with blonde hair. Okay? Fuck off.. People look like they are from certain parts of the world, that happen to contain Jews. Also... my nose? Roman nose. Stereotypical roman nose. If you're gonna be a racist, at least like be an observant one, okay? Man... there's no precision in anything anymore.

BTW, ordered more BPAL the other night.. got their Mabon limited edition, and a full sized Hesperides.

Comments

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

Amelie was pretty good, I'm interested to hear what you think of it once you've seen it.

[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

As I sort of alluded to the other day in a comment, a lot of people have whacked perceptions of anything that's not "cornbread" Anglo-Saxon Americana (as much as the latter two aren't very...definitive...or even the same thing really).

My roommate has a song he occasionally sings. He's of Italian lineage, but he likes to sing the following song on occasion:

"Kill all the white people.
Put them in a pot.
Kill all the white people.
Bake them 'til their hot."

White people, in this case, being really stupid cornbread-Anglo-Saxon-Americana - or, conservative old white men.

[justpat.livejournal.com]

Every so often I get told I look Jewish. More often than that, I tell people that they think I look Jewish. It usually goes:

"You're Italian? Really? I thought...."
"You thought I looked Jewish, right? You can say it."
"Well, yeah, I did."
"Fuck you, freak."

On occasion I ask them what "Jewish" looks like. So far, no one has checked me for horns.

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

Oh your nose is *so* Romanesque!

And tuck you into *my* image of Austen-ville and you're the cat's meow.

I can take my salve in that I have the good, wide ox-bearing hips and sturdy figure of a German immigrant or medieval peasant.
(Sigh.)

(I'd rather be Eleanor of Aquitaine. At least she had real estate.)

Ekatarina

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

People are always surprised to find out that I'm Jewish, but I have no idea why. Usually, they can't come up with an alternative ethnicity to assign me, either. To me, I look Jewish.

Your writing about BPAL inspired me to go check out the site, which of course led to me ordering a six pack of samples. I'm trying out Black Forest, Bewitched, Intrigue, March Hare, Kumiho and Jolly Roger. If I'm pleased with them, I've got another order of six ready to go. It's been years since I wore perfume, but these scents make me want to renew the habit.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Ha! Last night, for some reason, you came up, and my comment was, "Rache should be wearing the feminine equivalent of a toga, and sitting in the royal seats in a coliseum, deciding life or death." I got it right!