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April 23, 2005
An ex-Soviet shudder
There is this repulsive man from Kyrgyzstan whom I am constantly running into around campus, ever since I manned the Russian stall at the Global Village back in February. (We were so desperate for new Russian Society members that we started giving out free vodka shots at noon.)
"Are you Russian?" he asked.
"No, I'm half American, half Chinese."
He looks me up and down, slowly and deliberately.
"You don't look Chinese," he says, with a particularly suggestive sneer.
Since that day I seem to run into him a couple of times a week, and have noticed a pattern in his acknowledgement of me. If I'm in trousers, he doesn't even seem to register me in his field of vision. If I'm wearing a skirt, he waves and calls to me from across the square.
Posted by michele at April 23, 2005 4:26 PM