mr. flea is on hold with our mortgage company, which somehow accidentally paid $4000 in property taxes out of our escrow account to some random county in GA where house is not located. They cannot seem to grasp that this is THEIR problem and WE should not be required to make up the resulting deficiency in the escrow account. It is such a completely obvious error, clearly theirs, and yet they cannot seem to fix it! ARGH.
Also I had to go out into the hall today to avoid yelling at my boss. Three weeks left - will I make it?
If I could find a study that offers it, I'd volunteer to be (temporarily) infected with intestinal worms, in the hopes that it would get my immune system back in line.
(The worms they use in these studies are a)sterile and b)can't breed in the human gut, so that they only hang around for a little while instead of hanging around forever and ever.)
We just had a lessons learnt meeting, and I felt traditionally attacked (not through any reason of the people there, just me), and at the end of it the testing lead came over to me and put her hand on my shoulder. I tried not to flip my lid, because...work...touching, but when I turned around she simply said "Thank you" and I...it's been a rough day.
We've been informed of when bonuses and raises come out...but as far as I know we haven't been informed of, say, if or how much we get. WHY ARE THEY TORMENTING US?
Oh, hello, light bulb--lots of critics were saying Katniss was Melungeon, then, weren't they?
Oh, hello, light bulb--lots of critics were saying Katniss was Melungeon, then, weren't they?
That's the argument here.
That is the weakest argument on it I've ever read (eta: and I guess, the second weakest), though. Neither of them are arguments that she's not white, not like I've seen in fandom.
Thing is, at the end of the day, I don't get why people still insist she
isn't
white. She is, because the author said she was. Or, the author's opinion is at least as important as yours. You can't override it outside of your own head.
She was written white, so casting her white is at least not wrong, even if there are more interesting ways to go about it. It's completely consistent with the universe, so it's just one more missed opportunity in an ethnically undiverse landscape, not actual whitewashing. And I think it distracts from, say, things like the Avatar argument.
Yeah, I think it's just stupid to say "olive skin" = "not white." And it's not like there aren't ACTUAL problems with whitewashing.
"Olive skin" is used to describe all kinds of people -- sometimes Greeks, for instance. It didn't ping me at all that she meant Katniss was a person of color, but I also knew Prim was fair and blonde and blue-eyed, and so is their mother, I believe.
Anyone Mediterranean could have olive skin, I figure. And we generally call those people white now.
