Comments | nightengalesknd: Saddle Shoes

nightengalesknd

Saddle Shoes

Mar 17, 2016 20:55

I’m still on the e-mailing list for my high school, from which I graduated 22 years ago this spring. It’s a combination of habit and lingering interest. I’m following the technical theatre program, which is about to get its own dedicated performance space for the first time in the school’s 39 year history. It has been sharing with the cafeteria ( Read more... )

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glynhogen March 18 2016, 14:30:15 UTC

*hugs* to you and younger you.

nightengalesknd March 18 2016, 22:53:19 UTC

Thanks.

I mean, I'm fine. I just can't take a comment about saddle shoes from them quite the way it's intended.

So weren't you coming west soon?

glynhogen March 21 2016, 18:41:14 UTC

I thought it was off (per the comment I think I made anonymously because my laptop apparently signed me out of LJ, and I was too lazy to log in and repost), but now it looks like it's on. (I/O depending on employer's willingness to pay, which I thought was low for this FY but now it sounds like there's budget to blow through.) It'd be 4/14-16 for the actual conference, with me being interested in extending that for a day for socialization purposes. Still not 100% sure it's a go, or what final travel arrangements will look like.

songblaze March 21 2016, 20:32:52 UTC

This post sounds familiar in some ways. I did try to dress 'right', and it never helped.

Sent you a message with a not-relevant-to-this question.

ext_2840612 March 23 2016, 04:04:21 UTC

I love saddle shoes! The last time I wore them was in fifth grade, about thirty years after they went out of fashion, and I got made fun of because of them too. My mom wouldn't let me wear saddle shoes after I outgrew those ones. I, too, wish there had been an adult, in middle school or high school, to say those kind and accepting things to me. Instead of putting it on the other students to be accepting of others, or at least to refrain from being assholes, they put it on the bullied individuals to try to change themselves to fit in better so they wouldn't be made fun of. Pretty dumb, if you ask me!

plasticsturgeon March 28 2016, 05:13:50 UTC

I hear that a lot of Asian-Americans go through a similar thing where the same white people who used to bully them about their culture are now pretending that never happened and think it's oh so trendy.