Wow, another in a few hours!
Anyway, watching the trailer to Rent, coming out this Winter sparked me to write this.
Haha, 525,600 minutes!
But, seriously. A year is a long time. A lot happens in a year and a lot of us know that from experience. I haven't seen the musical yet, but I want to. If it's playing here in town, I would definitely see it.
Ok, so I thought we were going to head out to eat something, but since it's 2 for Tuesdays at Domino's, we did that.
Anyway, back to Rent (which I actually have to pay on Friday!) Yeah, watching the trailer for some reason makes me want to spend time with Laura and friends during the Christmas season. I don't know what it is, but the whole image of people walking down downtown, wearing scarfs, lights on the trees, and perhaps snowing just appeals to me. I like doing that or at least imagining it if it's too cold or something.
Yeah, And Laramie might be a good place to do that too with all the old houses, buildings and I really like the small community feel. I would like to live in a small community someday. I'm not a city person I guess like my brother and other friends that I know.
Oh yeah, another tangent, the other day I was thinking about seeing Crash and when I was out a week or so ago, it was just like Crash, in the sense that the world is a diverse place and we are surrounded by them, and those that "work together" without dicrimination...if you get my drift. My example. That day I ate breakfast, I forget where and got helped by a white person...later that day, I went to go get some school stuff and a latino guy helped me and he REALLY, REALLY insisted that I get a bag for my stuff, but I said it's ok. He was just really nice, not something you'd expect from the way he looked. This was at Long's Drugs. Then I think I ate at Taco Bell or something and another latino person helped me. The whole day was just weird. Don't get too many days with more contact with non-white than white.
Maybe that's what I liked about L.A. The fact that there are so many people, doing their own thing, and although they don't seem like the helping type of person, they do have good in them. People look out for each other, discretely and covertly, if that's makes sense. It's like an unwritten rule. I would assume that in L.A., for instance, Asians will help out Asians more, generally and so forth with the other races...not to sound weird, but I think white people are the least helped or attended to by other races in my opinion. Latinos, black, etc., in my opinion, will help out the white race the least among all races. I don't know. I could be just talking out of my ass, but I know what I know and I know what I've experienced. Hell, my old middle school's demographics, which I found easily, broke down like this, although this is NOT a 1996 census, it's probably still pretty accurate:
"The students come from diverse backgrounds, including 72.1% Hispanic, 12.5% White/Non-Hispanic, 11.4% African-American, 1.5% Asian, 1% American Indian, and 1.5% Other ethnic backgrounds."
All I can say is that I won't find that kind of shit here in Colorado! MOST of my friends, however, strangely as it may be, was white. Maybe just over half. The rest were pretty much latino and Asian. Not quite sure what the 1.5% "other" ethnic background is, but that sort of tells you what kind of area I came and grew up in.
This is interesting, so here's the demographics of the H.S. that I would have gone to if it wasn't for me moving to Niwot:
"78.2% Hispanic, 12.7% White/Non-Hispanic, 7.1% African-American, and 2% Other ethnic backgrounds."
Again, similar to my middle school. Anyway, I just want to say that people are generally good out in the world and although as hard as it may be (even for me), it's bad to judge a person by how they look or act, however cliche or hypocrital that may sound.