Hope you guys had a good Monday! I realize more and more that I’m obsessed with the blogosphere. haha. I love them!

Anyway, I saw this segment on the “Today Show,” about Nerd Girls who are attractive, smart, and breaking the stereotypes that smart women don’t shower and have never applied lip gloss. These women are engineers, and very savvy in engineering, technology, Mathematics, and the Sciences. Very cool, ladies.

Also, I came across this amazing blog post called “How to Be Creative,” from Gaping Void. This guy is a cartoonist who just tells it like it is which is so refreshing and I really related to a lot of the content. It’s true that when you decide to go off and start a “crazy” venture, you’re usually alone for a majority of the time, wondering if you’re crazy and if you’ll ever achieve what you set out to do. Posts like this are so inspirational and amazing. Hugh, you rock.

And… I usually keep my blogs pretty light, but I felt the need to write about this. This past weekend, I witnessed some racist taunting at Asian-Americans, and felt like I was in 6th grade again when a boy named CJ Carson called me a “chink,” and told me to “Go back to where you came from.” All I could think was, “Well, I was born here. What do you mean?” Then I went to the bathroom, cried for an hour, and then got in trouble from the hall monitor for not having a hall pass. Go figure.

I mean, sometimes I feel like we’re making so much progress, especially with the possibility of the first African-American president, and also how technology is allowing us to have a more global society. Then, someone calls out a racial slur, and I’m back in 6th grade again.

When you’re Asian-American in this country, you’re pretty used to being ignored. When politicians speak of the racial issues that divide Whites, blacks, and Hispanics, they rarely mention Asian-Americans. We’re kind of like the iceberg lettuce in a sandwich…you always put it in between the meat, cheese, and toasted bread, but no one actually acknowledges it. Sigh.
Sorry for the depressing post, but I needed to just write this.

Peace,
Kat