I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984.

Conversations from the Train

Yes, I understand your son is only nine and that you are from South Africa, but if he’s going to ask when he’s going to get to see an eskimo on the train going to Toronto and you’re not going to correct him – I am NOT a bad person for letting you know that that is a racial slur here. And if you DID happen to know and just couldn’t be bothered to correct him… your stance that “he’s only a little boy” IS going to be put into a context of your native country’s overall record with respect to, well, respecting non-white people.

That was the train from Baltimore to Toronto. Got on at 3:55am. Arrived here at 9pm (here being Veronica’s apartment). I am a trooper.

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