Guess who I got to see today?
~dancing~
That’s right! MIMI!
My homegirl is in town and she invited me over to visit. We took a drive to the local Walgreens and we stood in the aisles for I don’t know how long as I explained to her why I think it’s important for me to try my hand at becoming a stripper.
She looked at me like I was crazy.
“Dawg, I’m so tired of being ashamed of my body. If I could just build up the confidence to strut around naked and work the pole I know that it would break down a barrier for me. I want to encourage women to love their love handles, stretch marks and booty dimples, if they have them. I think I’m gonna start a movement!”
“Umm..What you’re trying to teach is immoral?”
“According to who?”
“According to the Bible.”
“Man….”
We went back and forth as I explained to her how I feel about religion, that’s there no one set path and even if someone decides to engage in a religion it should be because that way works for them, not because someone told them that they are going to hell if they don’t believe in that certain way.
“Hmm…Now I can understand why you said you didn’t want to marry a Christian man. I thought my ex husband made you mad and you blamed all Christians for it, but it’s really because you know your beliefs will clash. But be careful what you put out there, your career may never recover from it if you decide you change your mind later.”
After our power chat session at Walgreens we went back to her house and she shared some of her Haitian food with me. She made a dish of fried fish, white rice and this bean soup. It was absolutely delicious! I could have stayed the whole day just sitting and chatting with her but I had to go back to campus to finish my presentation.
Before I left Mimi gave me the biggest, tightest hug that I’ve had in a long time. I almost cried right there in her arms and her baby gave me a kiss on the cheek, I almost melted with love.
I zoomed back to campus and chatted with Kim a little bit before settling down to do my presentation. Our group decided to do a presentation on the life transition: Graduation.
My part was to come up with a short presentation on what Graduation means to me. I didn’t want to do some regular junk so I took out my Graduation CD by my baby Kanye West and I did a whole power point presentation on how Kanye views education and how his view affected his relationship with his Mom. I then chose a few songs from the album and copied a couple of verses from each to show as examples of Kanye’s attitude and inspiration.
I finished with just 30 minutes to go before class. My group called me up and I rushed out to meet them. How about when I got there, they handed me a piece of paper and said, “Just read this.”
Whuh? “Oh, we changed the presentation and you don’t have to present your part anymore.”
Whuh?
Ughh..I hate group projects!
Fuck! All that work I did! Damn!
Anyway…We went to dinner together on campus and had all kinds of laughs about our teacher. She’s crazy! This man missed two classes and she handed him his withdrawal slip…at the end of class like…Bye.
My classmate was like, “Hell naw…I PAY for this class I can miss as many as I want to!”
But dang ya’ll! I feel so good right now!
I think it’s because..well..take a look for yourself!
Yep! I did it! I snatched my weave out this weekend!
~dancing~
No more weave for Ms. Tee!
I’m finally starting my locking process with my hair. Actually, my twists didn’t stay in for long because I just used mousse as I twisted them but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my natural hair!
Oh my gosh!
I feel so free!
I feel so nappy and happy and authentic and beautiful! I look like a Queen to me!
I can’t stop looking in the mirror and touching my coarse hair and pulling on the twists and just staring at my reflection!
I love it!
I ain’t nevah going back to that weaved out look again!
~sigh~
It feels so good to be free to be ME!