shopping stress and technical vindication

I went to the mall with Tina and Sally today. I hate going to the mall. Shopping is stressful. Online shopping is so much faster and less stressful. We were on a mission to find a dress to wear for APALSA's annual banquet, Origins (buy a ticket!). I was so tired by the end of the shopping trip. I hate hate hate shopping. Shopping with a mission is also too too too stressful. I found a dress! Actually Tina found me a dress. Sally found me the shoes. I rarely try on things...but since I was shopping for dresses...I tried them on to make sure I didn't look like a hog. I was not in an ideal outfit to try on different clothes. Ugh.  Changing in and out of my clothes was a major hassle. I wish I could love shopping!

Back to e-mails. I wrote an e-mail to a professor who I don't know...to ask for money for his APALSA banquet tickets. I know he's a busy man...but it makes me feel insecure when there is no reply! Because I get so insecure about not receiving e-mails, a lot of times...I try to write e-mails where it could be a conversation-killer (last e-mail) or could be a conversation-starter...depending on the receiver's mood. But the e-mail I sent to this professor...was definitely..."PLEASE E-MAIL ME BACK OR I'M GOING TO FEEL INSECURE" type of e-mail. Oh wells. I'll never take a class with him and he'll never really have an effect in my life. Or...will he? 

I got fired up in Japanese Law today when the topic of "comfort women" came up and...I might have been a little on the offensive side to a guest lecturer. Actually, I think I was semi-offended by his casualness but as Sally said...how can I change someone's mind/consciousness about something? But, it was all in good fun...hopefully that man doesn't hate me. I regret getting all heated up about it...but what can I do. I want technical vindication. Is that too much to ask? Prof. West said, "good luck on that" when I proposed to the guest lecturer what my ideal solution would be (in the guest lecturer's words..."final solution"...this is because he doesn't know what connotation the term "Final Solution" carries) to this human rights issue. Technical vindication. Or..just wait until everyone who is still alive and was affected dies. It's only a few more years.