Nervous

I just posted somewhere else that I love that I am brave. I think I am on a fairly basic level. I'm the kid who wouldn't let her Mom walk her to school on the first day of kindergarten.

Tomorrow I start a new kindergarten. (Yes, I have worked in government offices before.) I've planned out what I'm going to wear, how to get there, how long to allow myself for yoga, shower and breakfast -- the basics. I've even left that extra ten minutes for makeup because this is the South, and I want to conform to the culture until I know it's safe not to.

But I'm nervous. I'm not a morning person, and I have to be somewhere at 8 a.m. I've walked the route before though, so I'm comfortable with that, other than the whole I am NOT a morning person.

This is my first time going to work in nearly nine months. I still have no idea of the parameters of the job description.

Most of the time, I'm enjoying living alone. But days like today, I miss having housemates to distract me.

I'd really love to have someone to hold me through tonight and tell me to play nice with the other kids tomorrow morning.

But I'm brave -- brave enough to walk to work through a Washington summer. *G*

IBARW: We do not live in a Colorblind society

If anyone questions why this week of speaking out is essential, I want to reference these responses to a blog post in the On Faith area of The Washington Post.

Facts show that 70%of black children are born to unmarried black women; 50% of school dropouts are black youths; many prisioners are black men. For some reason, American law just doesn't seem important to blacks. This conflict of interest causes many of these racial "events". But more interestingly, these events are moneymakers for those in the Victimology business. Something is happening in our nation. White patience is wearing very thin for these phony cries of "victim". We now have a black president, black attorney-general, and hundreds of mayors who are black. Massachusetts has a mayor,and governor who are black, and still the cry of "victim" comes from a man who started the whole thing. There is no slavery victim, just spoiled brats who want money.
DRZIMMERN1 at the Washington Post's On Faith Blog in response to Sally Quinn's post "The Scary, Honest Truth About Race"

give me an example of even ONE race, besides Caucasians, who have made any major contribution to technology and society in the past 1000 years or more. And forget the Chinese, Japanese, etc as they have learned all they know from the West, and have only just learned how to use that knowledge in the past 30 or 40 years.
And for some reason, white people are supposed to feel ashamed??? Because we didn't give the rest of the world enough yet?
SCOATES2482 at the Washington Post's On Faith Blog in response to Sally Quinn's post "The Scary, Honest Truth About Race"

The levels of ignorance disgust me.

Racism is a daily problem.