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So Neal's promotion fell through, which means I still have my Thursday nights, and Friday nights are a million times easier to request off. Which means I can go to the concert with my father this Friday, and vacation with Megan and my family at the end of the month.
Concert, btw? Def Leppard, Bryan Adams, and Randy Coleman opening. Def Leppard. And Bryan Adams. Can you say w00t?!?! It's at Cal Rpiken stadium, and I am so psyched. Definitely going to be fun.
In other news, 12 days till HBP, so not only am I excited about that, but also about the waves of fanfic I am expecting for people who want to get their stories out there before they get Jossed. Or so they can get Jossed. Whatever.
I was cleaning up Wednesday night, about 8:30 or so, in the diner. And this couple comes in, talking about the Court decision about the 10 Commandments. I think people just need to get over it, I think it's not that big a deal, but these people were all, "Why should we take them down? Most of the country is Christian anyway, and it's not like anyone disagrees with what they say." Now since the first one is, "Love thy God," I think the atheists probably do have a problem, but that's not really the point of this anecdote.
Anyway, I leave Dan to the discussion, as he's a raving conservative, and go out to fill sugar containers. When I come back, they've moved on to more fun, and the first thing I hear is, "And We've lived in this country for hundreds of years, and now They want to come over with Their religions and different languages, take Our jobs... We're going to be the minority in a few years, you know that?"
I turned around and walked out of the room as fast as I could. I was this close to chucking the sugar container at his head. The only reason I didn't was that I figured it's a bad thing to do to customers, and besides, I do need my tips. I know most of y'all reading this agree with me, but here goes the rant anyway:
WE'RE ALL FUCKING IMMIGRANTS!! Unless you're pure Native American, you were an immigrant at some point or another. America only exists as a melting pot of other cultures. I don't what "our" language even is, since right now the American dictionary accepts as standard - not even slang, in many cases - words that were originally Spanish, Hebrew, dozens of Native American languages, and German, to name only a few. And I know the majority is America is Christian, but there's a damn good percentage that are many other religions, and there has been for a while now.
I fucking hate xenophobia. More than almost anything else. Dan stopped agreeing so much about then, which is a damn good thing, or I would have had an unpleasant conversation with him later, even if he is my boss. I mean, the entire kitchen staff and one of our waitresses are from El Salvador (yes, I finally know that's the correct country, Yanira [and I'm 99% sure now that's how you spell her name] mentioned it last night), and Jennifer's Indian, so it's not like we're 100% fifth generation American at the diner or anything.
The thing is, we are so American at the diner. You've got Scott, working his way through college. You've got me, putting aside money for college. Yanira's putting herself through school to get her certification to do hair, which she says pays more money than waitressing. She wants to use that money to put herself through nursing school. Jennifer's a single mother whose husband left her years ago, and who she never hears from. Her daughter's in college now, and Jennifer works as a dental hygenist during the day and waitresses nights and weekends. And then there're the - sorry - stereotypical witresses (or how I think of them anyway), the middle-age women who do this for a living, because this is all they've got. They're not going to be nurses, they never made it through college, but they're all married, they're all working because that's what you do to get by.
And we play Elvis and Sinatra, the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, and we love it.
That's one of the things I love about our country, and why I don't understand why people think it's a fault. Culture blending is one of our strengths, or it could be if people would let it. That's one of the reasons I'm looking so forward to Minnesota, with all of Mac's Internationalism and multi-culturalism. I can't wait.
Happy Fourth, everyone. I wonder if 1776 is playing on any station today? I'd watch it.
Concert, btw? Def Leppard, Bryan Adams, and Randy Coleman opening. Def Leppard. And Bryan Adams. Can you say w00t?!?! It's at Cal Rpiken stadium, and I am so psyched. Definitely going to be fun.
In other news, 12 days till HBP, so not only am I excited about that, but also about the waves of fanfic I am expecting for people who want to get their stories out there before they get Jossed. Or so they can get Jossed. Whatever.
I was cleaning up Wednesday night, about 8:30 or so, in the diner. And this couple comes in, talking about the Court decision about the 10 Commandments. I think people just need to get over it, I think it's not that big a deal, but these people were all, "Why should we take them down? Most of the country is Christian anyway, and it's not like anyone disagrees with what they say." Now since the first one is, "Love thy God," I think the atheists probably do have a problem, but that's not really the point of this anecdote.
Anyway, I leave Dan to the discussion, as he's a raving conservative, and go out to fill sugar containers. When I come back, they've moved on to more fun, and the first thing I hear is, "And We've lived in this country for hundreds of years, and now They want to come over with Their religions and different languages, take Our jobs... We're going to be the minority in a few years, you know that?"
I turned around and walked out of the room as fast as I could. I was this close to chucking the sugar container at his head. The only reason I didn't was that I figured it's a bad thing to do to customers, and besides, I do need my tips. I know most of y'all reading this agree with me, but here goes the rant anyway:
WE'RE ALL FUCKING IMMIGRANTS!! Unless you're pure Native American, you were an immigrant at some point or another. America only exists as a melting pot of other cultures. I don't what "our" language even is, since right now the American dictionary accepts as standard - not even slang, in many cases - words that were originally Spanish, Hebrew, dozens of Native American languages, and German, to name only a few. And I know the majority is America is Christian, but there's a damn good percentage that are many other religions, and there has been for a while now.
I fucking hate xenophobia. More than almost anything else. Dan stopped agreeing so much about then, which is a damn good thing, or I would have had an unpleasant conversation with him later, even if he is my boss. I mean, the entire kitchen staff and one of our waitresses are from El Salvador (yes, I finally know that's the correct country, Yanira [and I'm 99% sure now that's how you spell her name] mentioned it last night), and Jennifer's Indian, so it's not like we're 100% fifth generation American at the diner or anything.
The thing is, we are so American at the diner. You've got Scott, working his way through college. You've got me, putting aside money for college. Yanira's putting herself through school to get her certification to do hair, which she says pays more money than waitressing. She wants to use that money to put herself through nursing school. Jennifer's a single mother whose husband left her years ago, and who she never hears from. Her daughter's in college now, and Jennifer works as a dental hygenist during the day and waitresses nights and weekends. And then there're the - sorry - stereotypical witresses (or how I think of them anyway), the middle-age women who do this for a living, because this is all they've got. They're not going to be nurses, they never made it through college, but they're all married, they're all working because that's what you do to get by.
And we play Elvis and Sinatra, the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, and we love it.
That's one of the things I love about our country, and why I don't understand why people think it's a fault. Culture blending is one of our strengths, or it could be if people would let it. That's one of the reasons I'm looking so forward to Minnesota, with all of Mac's Internationalism and multi-culturalism. I can't wait.
Happy Fourth, everyone. I wonder if 1776 is playing on any station today? I'd watch it.
