So after I posted up on Wednesday I took my phone and went down to Nik's to open it and activate it (I think he was more excited than I was about getting it). So I end up getting in a HUGE fight with his roommate Skylor, about Harvard. Nik's brother, Toby, might get into Harvard, which, hello, awesome. But apparently Sky is the ONE PERSON ON THE PLANET who thinks this is a bad thing. He's all, "Toby shouldn't abandon his family and a degree from NAU is just as good as a degree from Harvard."
So I was like, uhm, no.
Que a MASSIVE ten minute fight with Sky about this, where I feel like I handled myself really well. Like, I know I can be a belligerent asshole when I fight with people, but literally, this time, I was as calm and as reasonable as anything, and Sky was like, foaming at the fucking mouth. You know how it ended? I told Sky he was right. Not even about the original argument. He's all, "You can't tell me not to judge people when you do it all the time!" and I was all, "You're right." And he dropped it. Like a hot fucking potato.
Because I'm a woman.
Like, I don't think he does it on purpose. I don't think he looks at me and goes, 'She's dumber than me because she's a woman.' or 'She'll never be as successful or be worth as much as me because of her ovaries.' I absolutely
know he doesn't think like that. He's not an asshole. But he cannot
handle a woman talking back to him. Like, this isn't the first fight like this we've gotten into, and he fights like this with his girlfriend (who's
supersweet) all the time. We don't do something exactly like he wants or we don't agree with him (in a 'you're wrong' way. Not like, I think Chinese is better than Mexican) and he gets all fucking hot under the collar. And he'd never do it to Nik. Because he's
not a woman.
And, sorry, but I'm not going to take that shit.
So, I left. Came home. And started on my
BIG BANG (See, there's a point to telling you this)! And I finished off ten thousand words in one night. This story is WRITING ITSELF. It's so nice. I'm excited. :D
PS Sorry this is a day late. I seriously started writing it last night, but then my ride home (came home for Easter) came to get me, and then it was one am.