February 2012
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THIS IS MY FACE!
everyone: are you okay
everyone: you look tired
everyone: you look upset
everyone: you look confused
everyone: are you mad at me
me: IT'S MY FAAAAAAAAACE
Chronic bitchface. I have it.
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White American non-Muslim woman: Where you from?
Me: ( )ville.
Her: I am from there, too.
Me: We should have car-pooled into the city together.
Her: (laughs) But I meant...I thought you were an immigrant.
She waits for me to define myself for her. Anyone who is not Native American is an immigrant. But that's not what she means. She wants the name of a country, a box to put me into. I say, "No," and she frowns at my not giving her the critical information. I walk away. She doesn't want to interact with me until she can categorize me. I wonder how many strangers have ever walked up to her and demanded a country in the first minute of the conversation. I want to scream, sorry to disappoint you, but I am not your ambassador to The Exotic! I am a Muslim-American woman who wears a headscarf, we are volunteering for a community service project. Made me feel small, annoyed.
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January 2012
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“therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself....”
– matthew 6:34
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clientsfromhell:
Me: Here are the photographs from the shoot yesterday
Client: Nice shots - I like this one from behind the man. Can you just flip the image so we can see his face and not the back of his head?
Me: You want me to turn him around in the photograph so you can see his face?
Client: Yes - and maybe we can make him black. Do you have Photoshop?
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“no matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.”
– Drake (via tiportiff)
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December 2011
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