On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
@Ten Thousand Buckets @baklava! I KNOW RIGHT?!
Although if the worst thing I can ever remember saying is from when I was six, maybe I'm getting better? I definitely don't do that to people anymore.
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On The $625 Apartment
@ClearEyesFullHearts I'm in DC, after living in NYC (mostly Brooklyn) for nine years, and $1750 is giving me heart palpitations. You have my sympathies.
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On The $625 Apartment
@thenotestaken I am moving to Montreal at the end of the summer! From DC, which is both way more expensive and significantly less cool. I am SO EXCITED. Any recommendations on neighborhoods for a fellow Pinner? Is there a secret place to look for apartments, or is Craigslist good enough? I'd be looking for a 1 bedroom, somewhere fun and central and commuting (biking?) distance to McGill.
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On In the Walls
@aphrabean Your reply lead me, inevitably, to the Wikipedia article for "changeling," and I just had to share a sentence from it: "One belief is that trolls thought that being raised by humans was something very classy..."
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On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
@wee_ramekin Eh, I've heard worse. I am half Mexican, but look white. In high school, I was selected as a National Hispanic Merit Scholar, and they announced it over the loudspeaker. I got an astonished WTF look from a friend, and when I said "Uhh...you've met my mother, right?" she practically screamed, in the middle of the lunchroom, "I JUST THOUGHT SHE WAS ITALIAN!!!"
Ooh, also! In elementary school, when my mother would pick me up from school, kids asked (more than once) if she was my maid! I didn't even get how fucked up that one was until many, many years later! Yay racism!
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On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
@annev6 I have had that happen to me. The uncle part, not the telling-the-bride-about-it part.
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On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
I have been waiting for one of these, so that I could admit to the most weirdly terrible thing I have partially repressed in my memory. In...first grade? I was friends with a small Chinese girl who had a tiny voice. And I remember telling other kids, when they would talk to her, that she can only understand you if you talk in a high voice. And then I would "translate" what they were saying to her, by repeating it in a baby voice, with sing-song baby language. I did this for an entire school year. As horrifying and weirdly racist as this was, my only defense is that, for some reason I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THIS WAS TRUE. I have no idea why she put up with that shit from me.
So, Cynthia from Mrs. Kasai's class, if you're out there...I'm sorry.
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On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
@maebyfunke My old roommate, upon hearing that I was pretty sure my ultra-conservative religious parents assumed I was still a virgin, replied, "Reeeally?!? But you're kind of a slut!"
(I can't say I was offended. Now that I'm old and have settled down, I look fondly back on that particular Slutty Summer.)
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On Ask a Humanities Grad Student
@Anne Helen Petersen I did this for my M.A. thesis! I *just* turned it in, and only one chapter (out of four) was all-new work. The other three were all revised seminar papers. Not to brag *too* much, but I'm the only person in my cohort who seemed to actually get sleep this past semester, and I don't totally hate the work I did, because I got a chance to think it through over a longer period of time! This worked for me because the topic I chose is somewhat theoretical, rather than being nationally- or period-bound, so I can write papers on it in courses with a variety of topics. I'm starting a Ph.D in the fall and hoping some of that research will carry over. Okay, now I'm bragging...but I felt pretty smart for planning it out this way.
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On The $625 Apartment
@thenotestaken Thanks for the info! Do you folks do Pinups up there? I will probably be looking to meet new people!