2 comments and an etymology.

Today I pulled out a red-and-white striped shirt and my khaki shorts and was going around in that and a hoodie and some sandals, and on the way to school I passed by two middle-aged black women, and the one, who was slightly overweight and had a big smile on her face and a haircut kind of like Halle Berry, just said to me as I was walking by, "My, don't you look summer-y!"

Yesterday morning when I was roaming the local CVS in desperation at 9am looking at their toasters since the hardware store didn't have the model I liked and I was like the only customer in the store, I came out of the hardware/homewares aisle to almost run into this early 30s good-looking black woman holding her hands out and running towards her co-worker and being like, "Hey there, girl, how you doing!" We both kind of laughed knowingly, since that was a moment I wasn't supposed to see, being the only white person around.

Also, today I found out that the Spanish region Andalusia gets its name from the 5th century "Vandal" occupation.