more randomness
Nov. 9th, 2004 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotusbiosmTwo things that I wanted to share, which are not actually related to each other:
1) Kate and I were riding the Metro and chatting, and discussing how annoying it is for a boy/man to think you're cute when you're angry. My response: "I'm not cute. I am an awesome Goddess of Wrath and you shall tremble before me and make haste to do my will." (perhaps I said bidding instead of will, but you get the point)
Which is a piece of information all my male readers should have. Never tell a woman she's beautiful when she's angry, esp. when she's angry. It makes us think you're not paying attention to the fact that we're angry. If we're beautiful when we're angry, we want it to be the way a thunderstorm is: beautiful, but not something you want to mess with.
2) My anthro prof thought my name was Esther today. I was fine with that and corrected her. People often get my name wrong. There's a "it starts with an E and is uncommon" search that goes on in their heads, I think. It only occured to me later when I was recounting this to the boy that it might be that she knew my last name and that was how she arrived at my first. And that my mother used to tell her students that my name was Esther, which would have been a particularly cruel thing to name me. (not that Esther's not a good name, but rhyming names are not of the good)
1) Kate and I were riding the Metro and chatting, and discussing how annoying it is for a boy/man to think you're cute when you're angry. My response: "I'm not cute. I am an awesome Goddess of Wrath and you shall tremble before me and make haste to do my will." (perhaps I said bidding instead of will, but you get the point)
Which is a piece of information all my male readers should have. Never tell a woman she's beautiful when she's angry, esp. when she's angry. It makes us think you're not paying attention to the fact that we're angry. If we're beautiful when we're angry, we want it to be the way a thunderstorm is: beautiful, but not something you want to mess with.
2) My anthro prof thought my name was Esther today. I was fine with that and corrected her. People often get my name wrong. There's a "it starts with an E and is uncommon" search that goes on in their heads, I think. It only occured to me later when I was recounting this to the boy that it might be that she knew my last name and that was how she arrived at my first. And that my mother used to tell her students that my name was Esther, which would have been a particularly cruel thing to name me. (not that Esther's not a good name, but rhyming names are not of the good)
