everything in its right place

i finally got a new username after almost four years of using this one

add me meltemerdogan 

i know, very creative

i have a real blog now.

http://meltemerdogan.blogspot.com/

i probably will write in this too. i love reading my friends page and communities.

i've been so sick the past three days. i can't really concentrate on anything so there's a lot of reading i have to do for tuesday. i hope i feel better by tomorrow.

last night lauren and i saw johnny depp in person. the music was arguably the worst on planet earth, but it was him. if i were still in 8th grade, i probably would have died.

older people at concerts kind of depress me. when i went to see mark knopfler with my dad in july i noticed that most of the people get drunk and yell out stupid shit. it was pretty much the same last night except the crowd (other than the 13 year old depp fans and the guy dressed up like jack sparrow) was reliving their glory days in the late 70s and early 80s. everyone was drunk. a lady that we sat next to on a couch (that we took a nap on) talked to us for a few minutes. she told me she was so bored and needed to take more anti-depressants, which she did.

"I’m sure we all know people with “foreign” names (or “foreign” pronunciations of “American” names) who have to be forced to pronounce said names properly and overcome the fear of being deemed “pretentious.” No, I’m not talking about people like Christina Aguilera, who (as my cousin once put it) discovered a whole world of extra (rolled) rrrrrrrs in her last name as the so-called “Latin Explosion” of the late ‘90s took off. I’m talking about people scorned for not pronouncing their own names the “American” way. Is there a healthy dose of xenophobia somewhere in there? Definitely. But for the most part, there’s a sort of cultural complex that causes America at large to flare up whenever foreign tongues (particularly those tied to the romance languages) get all… languagey."

from racialicious

i wish i could take back "mel" and that my friends, my closest friends, would call me "meltem".