Too much freetime-aka blogging 101

This is so messed up! I’m always shocked by how ignorant people can be!

poupak:

This made me and still makes me so angry!! Not only because Stephanie is a good friend and a teammate, but also because I KNOW what she just experienced! And I understand being flabbergasted to the point of not responding, of wanting to keep your job.

It happened to me so many times when I was a TV producer in France.  But I hung in there and showed them HOW GOOD I was, and how much BETTER I was than what they expected. I was the bigger person but after a while THIS also became something some people made fun of.  I was writing the two-hour live show, and my boss used to say “well, your French is better than mine, so that’s why I want you to write this” but in a pejorative way, as if he wanted to put me DOWN for being better than him.  Just made me understand that some people will never change - they’ll SEE and EXPERIENCE how good you are, but then they’ll resent you for it.

But then again, some people DO change.  Some of my best friends from that time are still my friends to this day, and you know what, they’ve discovered my culture and have understood a lot about how the Iranian think.  Our friendship wasn’t immediate - I was very different from what they were used to seeing and what they knew of Iran (the hostage-takers).  We built our friendship over time and they learned to listen and understand that this was just a prejudice.  Some of my friends, since I’ve left France, are seeking the company of other Iranian descent individuals to build on the positive experience they had

So it’s worth fighting by being good. undeniably good. And staying on.

stephaniestreisand:

The night before last, something awesome went to total shit in just a few hours.

The night before last, I had an audition for a very improv based show (Think Tony and Tina’s Wedding, but a different show) that needed immediate replacements. I walked into the audition room with ten girls that…