Jun 30, 2005 07:46
Kiyota sensee (and the other sensees for that matter) and just starting to learn our names, since we now have tare and your name goes on your tare, you get the idea. Yesterday he says "Tia...that's not an Anglicized name. Where are you from?" (which I found charming for some reason), and to which I truthfully replied "Milwaukee," at which he said "Oh", and smiled.
In retrospect I guess I could have explained that I was named after a species of liquor, which is probably the kind of explanation we was looking for, just not worded that way. The words just weren't handy at that moment. Oh well. Adds an air of mystery to my persona. Like Greta Garbo. Or Yul Brynner. But blacker.
If I ever shave my head, I'm going to sing "A Puzzlement" and "Shall We Dance?" on a loop until it grows back. Oh who am I kidding? I've had the whole score memorized since I was 12.
"I will loooooooooove being looooooooove byyyyyyyy youuuuuuuuuu..."
school,
guess my race!,
silliness