kyuuketsukirui
2006-01-19 07:51 am UTC (link)

So...did the idiots frothing to be the first to cry racism even get the point of the question?

When I was at UCLA we got groups of "lil asian kids" (Japanese high schoolers on their school trips) all the time because it was apparently a stop on the "see the sights of LA" tour or something. And yeah, it was very odd the first time I saw 50+ Japanese kids in their school uniforms tramping around campus, despite the fact that UCLA has a very high percentage of Asian students (and in my major, an even higher percentage). It's the fact that they were high schoolers that was weird.

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	mute_button 2006-01-19 07:57 am UTC (link)
	I don't really have anything to say about the wank, so I'm just going to sit over here waving a little, "Olympia, yay!" flag. Even though I haven't lived there for around four years. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mazdajane 2006-01-19 09:06 am UTC (link)
	also waves Oly flag I lived there for ten years, most of my childhood. Ah, Olympia. So colorful due to the odd combination of government workers and aging hippies from ESC. It's so like pretentious college students to get all righteous about stuff. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mrbimble 2006-01-19 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	::waves the Oly flag too:: am missing Oly like WHOA! as I just recently moved from there. For a small town, it's got a most interesting mix of ethnicities, political orientations and cultural stuff... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2006-01-19 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	So do y'all want to send me tips, or something? If it rains today, it will be 33 days in a row, equalling the record set the year after I was born in old St. Petes. TESC, 1974, and my elder spawn is a sophomore there now. Or should I go to the Spar and have a milk shake and think of you? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sluggirl 2006-01-19 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	I thought it didn't rain on Saturday, breaking the streak, but nobody seems to know whether that's true. [current Greener here] (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2006-01-19 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Just reinforcing the rumor that college students sleep late on Saturdays? (and don't read the Zero) Rained, hard, around 6am Saturday morning, and again just before midnight. The string is unbroken. Personally, I could live without the honor. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sluggirl 2006-01-19 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	Aha. Here I was thinking nothing in the world happens before 7 am. The Zero? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2006-01-19 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	The Olympian. You know, the thing with the garage sale ads and the letters to the editor blaming everything bad on Evergreen students? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sluggirl
2006-01-19 06:00 pm UTC (link)

Oh, that thing. My family always called it the Daily O, but now I will adopt this new name. (I kind of stopped reading the paper when I lived in the dorms, where they don't deliver. And now I'm wondering if they deliver in Cooper's Glen. Hmmm...)
More importantly, what's your kid studying? I'm not a sophomore, but I transferred last year so I know a bunch of them.

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	frequentmouse 2006-01-19 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	He's in Chuck Pailthorpe's program, which has something to do with government. He's tall, rangy, bearded, and rather solitary. So far his career plans include "not farming." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2006-01-19 09:08 am UTC (link)
	CRIPES, who the hell pissed in the drinking water? Sure, the OP wasn't really that well worded and maybe a tiny bit ignorant, but that really didn't warrant the waves of 'OMG U R A XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE DIE'. (Reply to this)(Thread)

frequentmouse
2006-01-19 05:19 pm UTC (link)

Evergreen, as much as I love the place, is the world headquarters of political correctness (which is often defined in its original Trotskyite terms).

The year my husband graduated, one of the speakers used the phrase "Racism, sexism, and homophobia" no less than 125 times in her (interminable) ten minute speech.

One of my friends left school when she was repressively refused to paint a mural on the raw concrete walls of the Student Services Building using her own menstrual blood.

It's an unusual kind of school. Most of the notable alumni are cartoonists (including Matt Groening and Lynda Barry).

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	angstymcgoth 2006-01-19 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	Sadly, all I can do is nod in sage agreement. As surreal as it is to have my undergrad being wanked, it's almost more shocking that it's never happened before. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2006-01-19 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, if the internet had been around back in the day when computer services was all teletypes and modems that connected via telephone handset, it would have been wanked way earlier, probably one of the times that the CPJ tried to take down KAOS. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	angstymcgoth 2006-01-19 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	This is making me terribly nostalgiac, and I'm not even sure why. Probably the lack of performance art on my morning walk to classes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sluggirl 2006-01-19 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	There have been some choice wanks in the past couple of years, but since many of them involved close friends of mine (friends of mine saying things like "Please don't be racist kthx" in a mostly civil manner, but nonetheless), I didn't feel like reporting them. But now there's another f_wer on there, I won't have to. Hooray! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2006-01-20 03:59 am UTC (link)
	Her OWN MENSTRUAL BLOOD!? ... Ew. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gloria_mundi 2006-01-19 09:33 am UTC (link)
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	the_wanlorn 2006-01-19 03:24 pm UTC (link)
	I have a copy if someone else can host it. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sluggirl 2006-01-19 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Damn, I have no space, but I would like to see it. All my friends are talking about it in their ljs and here I missed the entire thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	winterfox 2006-01-19 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	Cannot, but you could always upload it on Rapidshare and distribute the link. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the_wanlorn 2006-01-20 12:28 am UTC (link)
	haHA! Rapidshare to the rescue! Click me! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kelschuu 2006-01-20 08:19 am UTC (link)
	Amusing note: Come mid-February, Evergreen State College does have a mini anime convention at it. ChibiChibiCon. (Reply to this)

	frequentmouse 2006-01-20 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Just because I had to record it somewhere: 34 days of rain, one after the other. Blub, blub, blub. (Reply to this)