And not to worry about the ethnicity of your mates making you a terrible Indian - say rather that the qualities you value in friends are not culturally-specific. And since MOST people in America are not Indian, that means that your chances of finding cool people who are nonIndian is pretty high. Alternatively, you are being a bold and intrepid explorer, willingly hanging out with the gori girls and boys regardless of their lack of Indianocity. Or something.
Yeah, all I hear from my dad is that Indians aren't bad people. Because I've clearly made it a
point
not to make Indian friends. My one Indian friend being the exception that proves the rule.
I think "tom" is soup. "yum" is maybe coconut milk?
Thinking about seeing if coworker can go over it with me and then I can figure the rest of it out myself.
I've never had any formal training, and go years between using it for anything, but I've always found Visio remarkebly easy to use. Among other things, it doesn't try to outthink you like so many Microsoft products (Word bullets and numbering, I'm looking at you!), but I also find it very intuitive.
(Is this where I mention that Donald Fagen was my uncle's college roommate and I've had lunch with him? Name-dropping, it's what's for breakfast!)
I am listening to Steely Dan right now in my office AIFG.
Also, yay JZ and jobage!
But you know, soup is good food.
Thanks Frank & vw. Imma talk to her over lunch then and see if she wants to dump it off her plate and onto mine.
I
think
that 'tom' is soup, and 'yam' means...er, probably sour/spicy, thinking about the context in which it tends to show up. (Tom Kah Gai = mild coconut chicken soup. Tom Yam Gung = Hot & sour shrimp soup. Yam Talay = Hot & Sour Mixed seafood salad.) Pet means spicy, so...hmm. I'm thinking maybe hot-and-sour?
But my Thai is SHIT. I'm very unmotivated - it's just so bloody tricky. My Arabic - hell, my Romanian, which I've never really learned & haven't had occasion to speak for over ten years - is a damn sight better than my Thai.
(ion, two days later I
still
think that the whole LOLita thing is funnier than a very fucking funny thing from the planet Hysteria. I also sort of want to make LOLCindys, for my awesome kid Cindy, who speaks in LOLcatspeak. 'I can haz cookie?' is very Cindy sentence, bless her.)
"yum" is maybe coconut milk?
that would be so perfect because TRUE!
Congrats on the job, JZ!!!! Hey! Have you been to see my friend in your neighborhood yet?
