Mon 11 Jul 2005
I just got eyelid surgery and had a deep Caucasian crease put in! Just kidding. Altho I am wearing my gray contacts for kicks.
I was waiting for the elevator this morning when my (Irish) judge walked down the hallway toward me to catch the elevator also. He said, “What do you weigh now? You’re wasting away!” I said, “There’s no such thing!” Some time ago another coworker (Mexican) said I was getting TOO thin. I gave the same response. “There’s no such thing!”
In Asian circles I am still considered chubby, and I personally feel I have more fat to lose because I figure anything that jiggles (except for my chest, obviously) can afford to come off. This is interesting. I have been at the point before where non-Asians consider me normal and Asians consider me chunky, which disparity I had just tossed aside as non-Asian acquaintances trying to be polite. But I’ve never been considered too thin for one side and still chubby for the other before. I’m not sure what to do. Even the women in jujitsu who lift me to prep for a throw pause and say, “Oh my gosh, you’re so light!”
Maybe this is why I get hit on by Hispanics, blacks and whites and never Asians, and also why I’m so bruised up from jujitsu.
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