@chai2,
Unless she needs to insult you. But in this case, maybe I insulted her (I think it's a her) first, probably early when she was going on and on about blacks in Chicago. I don't keep notes on that stuff. There are more than a few names she has used. I remember tradesies going on.
She is a doctor, a pharmacist, a lawyer, whoknowswhat, depends on the post. Maybe she is a lab dishwasher but that would knock them. Some of my best friends were lab dishwashers, remembered well. (I know the connotation of that sentence.) There was the dutch guy med student, now eminent whatsit, so smart and funny in revolutionary times at uni; there was the female brain wave early vegetarian, we all loved her, and she ended up doing tv anchoring and newspaper editing; there was the helper who had black hands sometimes since she took too much aspirin because of her volleyball issues and who became a dentist; there was the vietnamese (as in, from Vietnam) young woman of great parisian style who later got a doctorate at cal tech, who checked in the samples, and the mentioned before guy from Eritrea who did that too. All of them super, so I'll skip lab helper as a career for Kak.
Oh, I never did find out you are a jewish woman. I don't routinely read your stuff. But I did guess that at some point. Was I right?
