when i first was anticipating moving to new orleans four-ish years ago, i remember one of the things i was looking forward to was being a discriminated-against minority. it was my understanding that there weren't a lot of asians in n'awlins, and i thought it would be interesting to see how i would be viewed given that i was moving from a place ( Read more... )

Here's a random story that occurred during Krewe De Vieux.

after parting ways with Mark and Amanda and company at the beginning of the parade roll out, i went in search of Dan and Allison and company more towards the end of the parade roll out. We decided to find a place to watch the parade on Decatur, but stop at La Fitte's on the way to grab ( Read more... )

about a year and a half ago i started this tradition with one of the regular weekend late night poker dealers named Robbie. "Robbie," i say, "you're going to be my last dealer."

Robbie is in my top three of favorite and best poker dealers in the entire room. fast but accurate, always on top of the where the action is happening even while he's ( Read more... )

i was playing poker at 01:30 last night after the gig at the dba. a guy two seats to my left sported a purple shirt, a decent mustache and a casually drunk and simultaneously relaxed and intense demeanor. Two times that he straddled for $5, he said, "just for funsies."

at one point, he turned his face to me, looked at me very directly and said ( Read more... )

random number: Hey aime! This is john. Would you be up for working my 1 to 7 tomorrow? I'm sure you'll get off early and it's great to get some extra hours! :)

me: Typed the wrong number, mate. try again. :)

John: God Dammit.

me: Hopefully you at least have the right number. I'd take your shift, but i don't live in eugene any more or ( Read more... )

i just got an email from someone at work that i've never dealt with before (it was for a very specific question), and in her signature she had the following:

name
title
tulane university
(504)xxx-xxxx (not-so-direct line)
(504)xxx-xxxx (a-little-more-direct line)

i thought it was cute.

soemtime maybe two weeks ago, i got a local call on my work mobile. at the time i wasn't available to answer it, so i let it go. the person didn't leave a message but instead called back rapidly. The second time they *did* leave a message, but it wasn't a message to me, rather it was the caller talking to the person in the room with him that "i ( Read more... )

stuff needs to be written about thwe weekend because it was pretty action packed. it's not quite over yet since it's lundi gras, but if i wait until after mardi gras to write about some of this i'll forget everything that happened.
( krewe of hermes )

got lunch at the LBC today as per normal.

The person who rang up my order, late-20s black woman, gave me my receipt and said, "i named my son Mendel."

How about that.

so out of the blue today i received a text message from a 541 number. i didn't recognize the number and it wasn't in my contacts, but when i transferred to my new phone after rafting messed up my old one there were numbers that i didn't pull over. this person kinda seemed to know who i was or at the very least was being very familial/casual with ( Read more... )