Heather’s Neighborhood

April is the cruelest month, I suppose. And here I was just waiting to break up to end. Now it's winter again. Usually by the time fall comes, the prospect of snow seems so exciting, I almost forget that once it comes it refuses to leave. Like, I enjoy brisk weather. I like wearing long sleeves and not getting tan. Being tan makes me feel dirty. I think it's because of the tan lines I would get during soccer, I would try and wash them off, but it was tattooed on my skin. But it might be the same thing where light skinned people want to be dark skinned and dark skinned want to be light skinned. I tan easily, so I don't want to tan at all. Like, in the Philippines you always see adds for skin whitening pills and lotions and here, where the community is mostly white, people are always tanning.

Though tanning does sound like a nicer experience than lotion or pills.. Like, you get a nice, little room, with a warm heating tube/bed thing and you just hang out for awhile. When you put it like that, it sounds pretty awesome, but in the end you get tan. I wonder if they have whitening booths in places where people are predominately tan.

Weird.

And it's not like I want to be whiter or anything. I like the color I am during the winter. Naturally I'm like, a good balance between the two. So, at least there is an upside to Alaskan weather.

I've never been to the circus. I don't think I've ever heard of one even being held.. Are there even circuses still preforming?