Polite smile.

13Mar08

There have been a couple instances recently where I’ve employed my polite, non-committal, hoping-to-end-the-conversation smile. Sometimes there’s really no other way I can think to respond.
At an East Village bar last Friday, I had the following exchange with a friend of a friend:
FoaF: So what’s your ethnicity?
Me: I’m Chinese.
FoaF: [pauses, considers] I spent a year [...]

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Absolute failure.

06Mar08

I started this blog with enthusiasm, a backlog of already-written entries to post, and a heap of free time on my hands.
Now I’ve failed to post for weeks, and it’s certainly not for lack of material. On February 9th I had a delightful experience in the East Village that I’ve been trying to properly write [...]

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Tags: east village, malaise, strangers