One step forward two steps...

backwards...

or maybe to the side.

Whatever it is I swear black people have mastered this dance of moving one step towards progress and then sliiiidng backwards. Or maybe its the running man were doing here, stylishly running in place.

(I'm sorry if im offending people here. And i'll reitereate(sp?), I do love black people from the bottom of my heart.)

So im here in the 30314...West End Atlanta. There is nothing but black people here...Living here at times you forget that there are white people...then you see them and youre like..oh yeah.

We are the woooooorld

Today i made another foray into the West End 'mall'. But let me first explain the west end mall. It consists of
-Foot Locker..where though there are more people working in the store than customers...it still takes about 20 minutes for them to find a shoe for you.
-Bronner Bros...A hair place, well i dont know if they actually do hair but they do eyebrows. I go there despite their blatant lack of porfessionalism. I still believe in supporting my own. And though they may slide on the professionalism, and it may take 35 minutes to get your eyebrows done while theyre talking on the phone/babysitting their neice/eating their lunch/filing their taxes (as was the case today)...it looks alright when i leave.
-About 4 more shoes stores
-The Burning Sands ...A frat/soror 'nalia(whatcha know about 'nalia?) store for all your skeeee wee needs.
-Book store
-Radio Shack
-Hair place run by none other than...
-Rainbow(think tellos or a low end version of forever 21)
-Fish 'n a pocket...I'm too mad at the name to comment on this place
-Bruesters-some damn good ice cream
-Music store usually with a bootlegger right in front of it
-Some Walmart-esque store
and of course the African store.

So maybe its not that bad...it could be worse.But just when you think you made some progess, it seems we make a circle right where we started from.

Some other things that are irritating me right now...
-Its skeee week

-Mr. and Ms. AUC are hosting these forums on campus with such engaging topics such as "What do men feel about women who have sex on the first day"

-People actually go to these forums. oh Morehouse/Clark men of virtue, please invite yourself to come into our school, bless us with the knowledge that has been hard won, and disseminate it amoungst us Spelmanites so that we may further our knowledge and understanding of the world.yet no one questions the bigger question, like why doesnt anybody question what women think of men who have sex on the first date? Or even what do women think of women...okay dont get me started.

-friends still ask me "is it true that all the dudes in Atlanta are gay?" or 'what percentage of dudes in atlanta are gay?'

-they actually expect an answer

-My lack of enthusiasm for school work

-that i have no idea where im going to be living next year...fuck next year, where the hell am i going this summer?

-Despite all efforts, my hair refuses to lock



-oh yeah...I'm locked out my room and my roomate isnt picking up her phone.

okay alii...deep breath