Much Ado About Nothing

2002-07-08 || 10:56 p.m.

I have no idea what to write about. I don't want to write about nothing, because that's really boring. The Seinfeld of diaries. Yawn.

If it doesn't turn into that, I'll just end up whining all day like Andy Rooney, and one of him is really more than the universe really needs.

Perhaps I could say something encouraging? That's difficult, without anyone to say it to.

Ooh ooh, I know!

My friends, close friends, often tell me they hate a group of people, or think a group of people are really weird, and my (truthful) response to them is that I am a member of that group. Am I that difficult to know? I thought I was a pretty open and honest person, but really now.

Case I: Was in the car with my friends Millard and Toyoda-chan, and Millard says that "born-again Christians are really weird." I reply, "I'M a born-again Christian; do you think I'm really weird?" (Side note: I am actually quite proud of being weird. But Millard is just as weird as I am.) Ok, that one was resolved quickly. He thought they were all drug addicts who rationalized their behavior by saying that the blood of Jesus washed away all their sins (true) and that meant they could live like, well, drug addicts (not true, but yes, God DOES love them too). He thought maybe we weren't ALL that weird after that.

Case II: My friend Helen, who is Chinese, is telling me about this guy she knows who is white, but speaks some Chinese and uses it every opportunity he gets, and how he acts Asian all the time, etc. I told her "Like me?" (She once described me as an egg: white on the outside, but yellow on the inside. Ok, I speak no Chinese yet, but I am conversational in Japanese.) There was a dead silence for 30 seconds.

Case III: My friend Lady More tells me (again) that she hates evangelical Christians, which I think sort of describes me. Have yet to flesh this one out.

What is it about me? Is it an aspect of my personality that attracts this sort of thing? Oh well. I will meanwhile delight in the fact that I am "not categorized or easily laballed." That's me. Always looking for the bright side...