We had unpaid interns at my last job. Most of them were great, helpful and enthusiastic...because they got to drive hot cars as part of the job. But occasionally we'd get the ones that didn't want to work, just play around in the Bimmers and Lambos. One actually tried to tell the editor-in-chief, who had been running the magazine for 30 years, on how to do his job at a production meeting. We were so glad when his internship was over!

I read that every first lady since has been featured in a high-fashion magazine.

Are people actually donating money through her website?

I'm not 100% sure what they have going on, but you could try the Planetarium or Air & Space Museum.

Yeah Maynie, but it's just society growing out of their narrow-mindedness...like growing out of slavery, women's oppression, etc...or like when everyone thought the world was flat, society eventually came to accept that it wasn't.

10:37 I will check out Kimchi and Sauerkraut. The title reminds me of a self portrait project I did college...I photographed a bottle of soysauce with Worcester sauce, with a mixing bowl in front of them (me) haha!

Have you ever seen "Come See the Paradise" with Dennis Quaid and Tamilyn Tomita? That is also about Japanese-American relations during WWII. I love that movie.

I was medically induced the first time, for what seemed like a whole day...but it didn't do anything. I never dilated and just laid around in agony for hours before they resorted to C-section. I wish I had known about acupuncture then, as it might have helped with either the induction or the pain.

Although it is very common now to see Asian/American marriages, I have witnessed cultural tension between the white and Asian sides of my family when I was younger (from both sides). And even now, my sister was not readily welcomed into her white husband's family (because 1, she's part Asian and 2, she's Catholic). Although she is accepted more than her full-blooded Japanese Buddhist sister-in-law. It seems the parents' anti-Asian views backfired, as all their sons ended up marrying Asians!

I've always been interested cultural issues so I looked it up...most laws I found pertained to white/black marriages, but I found some that address white/Asian marriages:

1909 Montana statutes passed declaring marriages between whites and persons of whole or part Negro blood or Chinese or Japanese null and void.

1912 Nevada Revised Laws, sec. 6517: "If any white person with any person shall live and cohabit with any black person, mulatto, Indian, or any person of the Malay or brown race or of the Mongolian or yellow race, in a state of fornication, such person so offending shall, onc onviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and not less than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than six months or more than one year, or both."

1913 Nebraska Laws, ch. 72, sec. 5302. Void marriages: "First -- when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese or Chinese blood."

1921 Georgia act makes felonious and void the intermarriage of whites and persons with an ascertainable trace of African, West Indian, Asiatic Indian, or Mongolian blood. Provisions for detecting such blood could not be enforced for lack of appropriations.

1950 Intermarriage prohibited in 30 of 48 U.S. states

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brand new studio!

Don't let one person's views on Asian people get you down. We will probably never meet this person, and if we did, they'd probably steer clear of us Asian or Asian-friendly people anyway.

That greencard comment was probably meant to be out of line, but I'm not going to let it ruin my day.

I almost posted a few weeks ago about something nice my DH did for me, but then I felt like a dork and decided not to because it's kinda hokey. But here goes...I was so happy that DH bought me a DVD of my favorite cartoon from the Dollar Store...don't laugh...She-Ra! Yeah, it's no diamond ring, but I was touched that he remembered what cartoon I loved as a kid.

I read an article about a common problem on the Tokyo metro - women being groped in tightly packed cars. That, I've experienced once on the DC metro. ick!

The Valentine's project is nothin' compared to the science project due in 2 weeks. But hey, it's bonding time.

Last year I printed out little Valentine messages on my inkjet. I cut them up into rectangles, and cut up slightly larger rectangles out of construction paper. I had DS glue the messages to the colored paper with glue stick, and then he added the Dear xxx, From xxxx. They LOVE stickers, so a few stickers on it and BAM...done! It took about 20 minutes.

At that age, they might not be so into coloring. But if you want to encourage them to color, I find that when I sit down and start drawing, they will try too. Seeing mommy draw pink kitties motivates them to try!

I am taking Oriental technique at the Saffron in Arlington, but the other 5 classes I teach all over town. Next month I am going to teach at a homeless shelter for women.

There are classes all over the area, just look em' up - www.zumba.com or on CL.

Anonymous wrote:I've been mistaken/embarrassed before for offering my seat to someone who I thought was elderly. The woman I offered the seat to looked hurt that I thought she was elderly. Same thing with pregnant woman. You have to be damn sure that she's pregnant first.

So true! That's why I generally stand unless its pretty empty or I'm exhausted. But yes, people are rude or just in their own worlds not paying attention to others who may need a seat more than them. My dad had a stroke and was scooting around with a walker on the metro...no one gave up their seat for him.