today, so far
1. Ethnic Deception
Today I met up with some friends from work at the India Embassy here in DC, where they had a celebration of the Indian Independence Day that involved free Indian food - which was primarily why I went. While there, of course, my Indian and Taiwanese friends and I discussed how easily I fit into the crowd - at one point, when all of our Indian friends had gone to another room and a white woman asked Elaine, who is Taiwanese, who she came with - well, Elaine pointed to me. The woman nodded and walked off. I then joked that I could take them all to a variety of Embassies around town, and we could sample free food with the believable excuse that I was of that nationality and desired to share my culture with my friends. If push comes to shove I could say that I'm adopted but want to learn more about my biological heritage. :p
2. YourAss on MySpace
As I stood on the metro on my way home today, I heard a bunch of obnoxious teenagers behind me start saying things like, "Nah man, those are True Religion! Those are Trues man, I'm tellin you!" Now, if I hadn't recently gone on a jean shopping odyssey I probably wouldn't have known that True Religion is one of those ridiculously expensive jean brands. The jeans I was wearing were not True Religions, though they are quite nice looking if I say so myself, and I wondered if they were talking about my jeans. The kids continued - "Look, it goes up and down, up and down, that's the W but it's just squished up! Them are Trues!" I assumed they must be talking about the pocket design - only I couldn't for the life of me remember if the pocket designs on my jeans looked like W's. As they argued about it one of them said, "What, you want me to take a picture? Let's take a MySpace picture!" And on the off chance that they were talking about taking a picture of my butt and putting it up on MySpace to communally determine the brand of my jeans, I turned sideways so they'd be unable to do so. Damn kids.
More ramble-ations to come.