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Theologians/They don't know nothing/About my soul.
I'd never paid much attention to the lyrics to this song before. I rather like them.
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I told the people in the office this morning about my piercing. As expected, it was just a curiosity to most of them. Bruce wasn't impressed. While he's surprisingly conservative about some issues in the context of this ultra-lefty office, it's not surprising that he's conservative when you know about his past. He's a former Jesuit priest. Everyone else was just interested in the usual stuff - did it hurt? why did you do it? - but he made disapproving groans throughout. Then someone asked what Elizabeth thought of it. And he jumped in before I could answer and asked, "What does your mother think of it?"
I got a little peeved and turned to him and said, "I'm my own person Bruce. I support myself, and that hasn't mattered to me since I lived at home in 1999."
Later, I showed Ahmed (who's always late, so he didn't see it with everyone else first thing this morning). And he disapproved, too. I didn't expect anything different from him, mind you, since he's Middle Eastern and has only been in Canada for 3 years or so. Maybe I'm stereotyping, but stereotypes are right more often than they're wrong.
I'm already getting a bit ticked off by people judging me so openly. I expected people to judge me, but I also expected politeness, like I show when I disapprove of someone's behaviour (so long as it harms no one else). Who do these people think they are?
Pierced people, I ask you, do you get a lot of people who judge you to your face like this?
I'd never paid much attention to the lyrics to this song before. I rather like them.
***
I told the people in the office this morning about my piercing. As expected, it was just a curiosity to most of them. Bruce wasn't impressed. While he's surprisingly conservative about some issues in the context of this ultra-lefty office, it's not surprising that he's conservative when you know about his past. He's a former Jesuit priest. Everyone else was just interested in the usual stuff - did it hurt? why did you do it? - but he made disapproving groans throughout. Then someone asked what Elizabeth thought of it. And he jumped in before I could answer and asked, "What does your mother think of it?"
I got a little peeved and turned to him and said, "I'm my own person Bruce. I support myself, and that hasn't mattered to me since I lived at home in 1999."
Later, I showed Ahmed (who's always late, so he didn't see it with everyone else first thing this morning). And he disapproved, too. I didn't expect anything different from him, mind you, since he's Middle Eastern and has only been in Canada for 3 years or so. Maybe I'm stereotyping, but stereotypes are right more often than they're wrong.
I'm already getting a bit ticked off by people judging me so openly. I expected people to judge me, but I also expected politeness, like I show when I disapprove of someone's behaviour (so long as it harms no one else). Who do these people think they are?
Pierced people, I ask you, do you get a lot of people who judge you to your face like this?