Plays Well With Others

Fighting for the freaks …

So, no, I’m not a television-aholic, nor am I neurotic. Yes you are. No I’m not … now you just stay quiet while I’m talking to the people. But you are neurotic.

Anyway … last entry, I was fighting for a show I happen to like … and I’m not the only one. These people like it too. I guess I should give you a little knowledge about the show … it’s set in the early 80’s and follows the lives of some high school kids and what they go through..some are known as freaks, some as geeks. Think Wonder Years for the 80’s crowd. If you were in high school during the 80’s, you’ll love it … if you are in high school, you’ll love it … if you know someone who was in high school during the 80’s, you’ll love it.

But I’m still disappointed … for the next three weeks, the show will be pre-empted. Basically, the network is trying again to kill the show off … but I’m won’t sit idle while they do it. Nope not me … I’ll have to figure something out … I’m writing to my radio DJ’s to have them watch it … then fight for it too …

So, today was pretty uneventful … work was not that exciting. We were supposed to start some site testing, and a few glitches came up … keeping us from being able to start. A good thing about this is that I may be able to work from home to do this testing … basically sitting at the computer all day and surfing a site trying to break it. I managed to break it today … but I dont know if that counts. The site is related to chickclick.com, and will be selling cool clothes for teenage girls.

Coming up at the latter part of the week, there will be a fashion show for the employees … sort of a pep rally for the new site. I’m sure there will be food and beer …

Those of you that are long time readers of this journal, know about my friend Cindy, who is in the Peace Corps in Tonga. So, I haven’t written to her in a while and started sending her journal entry snippets … sort of edited versions of my entries … from the past. She seems to enjoy getting email everyday, and it’s nice to share some of these with people.

It’s actually a big deal because I dont let any of my offline friends know about the site … I need at least one place in this world where I can talk about anything and everything..and Commixion is it. If it is ever found out I suppose I’ll have to deal with it. The webrings page actually does have a warning … but since that is no longer my opening page, it doesnt really do any good.

I dont have any class tonight … my Poli-Sci teacher gave us the night off to spend some time in a law library looking at court papers and rulings. I didnt go tonight, but will have to do it sometime later in the week … I dont have the motivation to study when I have to … or even when I dont have to … I dont really enjoy studying … period.

I’m hoping to be a celebrity on the letters page of Entertainment Weekly. Since I wrote that letter, I figure maybe they’ll print it and then I’ll be a celebrity for a day … of course, I’ll have to scan it in and publish it here on this site … for all the world to see … I’ll be extrememly popular and everyone will love me. I’ll be the supreme ruler of the world …

I’m trying something new again … okay y’all … just keep the “Oh great, here he goes again” to yourselves. I have a new section under the main journal titled “journal discussion of the day” … basically, I’ll try to choose a different journal everyday, and discuss something I read in their journal … sometimes I’ll pick a journal more than once..so the first one is below.

I Wasn’t Built To Get Up At This Time – Tim Partridge

“I was shocked. Seriously shocked. I mean, this was a girl who was very similar to me in views, who was someone who I was beginning to think of a good friend, and here she was using the British equivalent to the ‘n’ word. It’s offensive, it’s racist, and it’s unacceptable.”

So, readers, how would you deal with something like this. Personally, I dont like confrontations … more than that, though, I dont like people who’s minds are so closed that they aren’t open to alternative lifestyles or different cultures. Growing up in liberal San Francisco, I’ve been around so many different people, that nothing bothers me. I live in an area populated by a large number of Asian people and most of my friends are Asian … I also have friends who are gay and lesbian, as well as, filipino, black, and some are even … yes … I have friends who are artists.

So what would my advice to Tim be? Well, I think I’d have to pity this person first of all. Either she is really close minded, or she doesn’t know any better. Perhaps she was raised in a household where that kind of language was used and so she is just repeating it. I think, without being confrontational, I would just talk to her about it … perhaps ask her why she would use such a word, and and perhaps let her know that the word offends me … I might be able to remain cordial to her, but once someone uses a word like that, it changes my view of them and in the end makes it very difficult for me to be a true friend to them. It’s just how I am. I’d probably continue to talk to her and perhaps when the time was right … bring it up. Maybe she just didn’t realize it’s wrong to use words like those … just maybe.

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